Your Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Update

Areas to west continue to suffer from the drought as the very dry weather persist. Exceptional drought conditions continue across the Southern Plains and areas along the West Coast.  There is some good news for locations in the southern Plains, specifically along the Red River Valley. There have been several rounds of convection to affect this region. Even this morning, a line storms with heavy rain was pushing across the area, which can only be helping the drought situation there.

For Alabama, there remains a few abnormally dry areas in the northern part of the state. These conditions continue to affect portions of Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Madison, Jackson, and DeKalb Counties. No rain over the last seven days across the state has allowed these conditions to expand from 2.89% of the state last week, to 5.32% this week. That is an increase of 2.43% in the coverage area. Currently, no parts of Alabama are experiencing drought conditions.

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