The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows significant improvements in drought conditions across most of the Southeast. While the entire region is still in abnormally dry conditions or drought, the areal coverage of each of the severest levels of drought has been reduced as the recent rain has reduced precipitation deficits, increased soil moisture, and increased pond depths, stream flows, and reservoir levels. Because the rain was typical convective thunderstorm rain, there are likely some areas between the heaviest rains that are still very dry, but over time those areas should also get more precipitation. Alabama got the most rain, and all extreme drought has been removed from that state and some areas are now just abnormally dry (D0). Exceptional drought is still present in southeast Georgia, northern Florida, and southern South Carolina, which missed a lot of the heaviest rain. Puerto Rico continues to have some areas of abnormally dry conditions.
You can find the Drought Monitor maps at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/.
