The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded and got stronger across quite a bit of the region but especially in eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and western North Carolina. The data cutoff for this map was before the last storm occurred, but many areas did not receive much rain from the line of storms that moved through quickly, so it provided limited relief for next week’s map. There could also be some rain this weekend before the cutoff for next week’s map, so that may provide some improvement or at least it won’t get worse.
