The latest National Drought Monitor was issued this morning and shows that abnormally dry conditions expanded from 20 to 34 percent of the region, mostly in the western Carolinas and Virginia. Dry conditions decreased in Alabama, but moderate drought reappeared in south-central Georgia, which has missed most of the rain this past month. Updated drought maps are issued each Thursday at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ and are based on input from hundreds of climatologists, water managers, extension agents and others across the US.
