RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 7/8: The Northwest, CA, and IL saw large areas worsen.

Significant drought improvements in MT, NE, MN, FL, TX (parts that were in Exceptional Drought [D4] experienced catastrophic flooding)

#Drought2025's Footprint: 26.2% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 7/15: The trend continues with drought worsening in the West (especially the Northwest), improving in the East, and mixed for the Midwest & Plains (although the Plains saw large areas improve).

#Drought2025's Footprint: 31.4% of US

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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 7/22: Monsoonal moisture improved drought in the Southwest and W. TX while the Rockies saw areas worsen.

Dryness has popped up and expanded in the Southeast. Plains and Midwest: mixed (again)

#Drought2025's Footprint: 26.3% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 7/29: Major degradations in the Northwest, Great Basin, and Rockies.

Dryness and a bit of drought expanded in the Northeast and Southeast. Improvements in the Midwest. Mixed for the Plains.

#Drought2025's Footprint: 26.0% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 8/5: Extreme Drought (D3) expanded in UT, WY, and CO. But the West saw OR, MT, and NM improve.

Dryness expanded in the Northeast and Lower Mississippi. Mixed for the Plains, Midwest, Southeast.

#Drought2025's Footprint: 25.0% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 8/12: The Upper Colorado River Basin (WY, UT, CO) worsened, including a new area of Exceptional Drought (D4) in CO.

Dryness and areas of drought developed in the Northeast and Lower Mississippi.

#Drought2025's Footprint: 25.0% of US
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 8/19: The Northeast and Central/Lower Mississippi River regions are both seeing dryness expand and drought develop.

Out West, drought goes from bad to worse in parts of ID, WY, CO, UT, AZ, NM.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 26.8% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 8/26: Conditions worsened from the Ohio Valley (WV, OH, IN, IL, KY) to the Central/Lower Mississippi River regions (E. TN, MO, AR, MS).

Mixed in the Northeast. Mostly status quo out West.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 27.7% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 9/2: Conditions worsened again from the Ohio Valley to the Central Mississippi River region.

The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic also worsened.
The West saw scattered monsoon-related improvements.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 29.1% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 9/16: Conditions worsened across the eastern US, including the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and South/Southeast. Extreme Drought (D3) is present in ME, NH, VT, OH, WV, KY, MO, TN, and AR.

#Drought2025's Footprint: 34.2% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 9/23: Drought worsened in every state east of the Miss River (except WI & DE). But rain did improve parts of some of these states.

West: In general, the Southwest improved. The Northwest worsened.

#Drought2025 Footprint: 36.4% of US
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 11/18: Drought worsened in the Southern Plains and Southeast. Exceptional Drought (D4) was introduced to the FL/GA border.

The Far West, particularly WA and CA, improved.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 38.6% of USA (most since Nov 2024) https://t.co/mljsjQE3B9 @NOAA https://t.co/mADqluw0Oe

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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 12/2: Most regions saw improvements as wet weather, including snow in parts, moved across the US.

Some areas worsened, including parts of the Northwest, Rockies, W. TX, Southeast, Upper Midwest.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 34.7% of US
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 12/9: The largest areas of drought in the Lower 48 now cover the Rockies, S. TX, Upper Midwest, and East.

Recent improvements have helped but pockets of Extreme Drought (D3) still persist.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 33.8% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 12/16: Large improvements in the Northwest and N. Rockies. Also GA and a bit of SC, AL, FL.

The interior South/Southeast (especially AR/TN) worsened. Also pockets in OR, UT, TX, and Northeast.

#Drought2025’s Footprint: 34.0% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 1/6: Improvements to large parts of the West. But winter precipitation in the form of rain has led to widespread snow drought.

Degradations: Eastern Rockies, Plains, Midwest, South, East

#Drought2026's Footprint: 37.5% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 1/13: Drought worsened across 2 large areas: South Central TX to AR/MO and the FL up to VA. Drought improved between these areas.

The Midwest, Northeast, and NE/KS improved. Mixed for the West.

#Drought2026's Footprint: 35.6% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 1/20: Dry weather led to degradations, especially the Northwest, Rockies, Plains, Lower Midwest, + South/Southeast.

The incoming winter storm will likely paint a different picture next week.

#Drought2026's Footprint: 36.9% of USA
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 1/27: The recent winter storm improved drought across the southern US, especially AZ, TX, LA, MS, AL, TN, and up to KY.

Out West, CO and MT saw large areas worsen. Other degradations: SD, NE, FL

#Drought2026's Footprint: 36.0% of US
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RT @NOAADrought: #DroughtMonitor 2/3: A mostly dry week for the West, which is dealing with a record-setting snow drought, led to large degradations in OR, ID, MT, WY, CO, and NV.

TX, OK, AR, and FL saw large areas worsen too.

#Drought2026's Footprint: 37.4% of US
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