While we’ve been watching the drought in the Southeast, many other areas of the country are also experiencing drought. NOAA published a country-wide overview of the drought in these regions at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/drought-building-places-other-california earlier this month.
NOAA also provided an update on the current neutral conditions and the likely transition into La Niña in their ENSO blog at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/august-2016-enso-update-wavy-gravy. The article has some interesting discussion on what the tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures are looking like and how NOAA decides that a La Niña is officially occurring.
