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About Drought Status Updates: NIDIS and partners issue drought status updates to communicate a potential area of concern for drought expansion and/or development, based on recent conditions and the upcoming forecast.
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Bishop Creek waterfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Drought Status Update for California-Nevada
March 11, 2021

Drought Preparedness Key as Continuing Drought Conditions and Impacts Compounded By Back-to-Back Dry Years.

A marsh in Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Southeast Climate Update and Webinar Recap
March 10, 2021

Next month’s Southeast Monthly Climate Webinar is on Tuesday, April 13 at 10 am ET, with a special presentation on the Spring Flood Outlook. Watch the March 9 webinar recording, and register for upcoming webinars.

A beach landscape in Puerto Rico
Drought Update for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
March 5, 2021

Drought conditions continue to prevail across northwest Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Expansion of abnormally dry conditions/moderate drought and some additional deterioration is likely into late April, before the usual onset of the wet season.

View this drought update in Spanish.

Bishop Creek waterfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Drought Status Update for California-Nevada
February 25, 2021

Drought forecasted to continue as wettest months come to a close

Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon
Drought Update for the Intermountain West
February 25, 2021

Below-average snowpack and a dry forecast: Potential drought impacts through spring in the Intermountain West.

 

Mountainous field partially covered in snow.
Snow Drought Current Conditions and Impacts in the West
February 11, 2021

Recent storms bring some snow drought relief, but below-normal snowpack remains.