The dry pattern continued for the drought stricken areas of the southern Rockies and Plains and parts of the Southeast.
Recent precipitation allowed D0 to be contracted in northern Maryland and D1 to be contracted around Washington D.C. Southeast Precipitation was above normal (1-2 inch surplus) across much of Virginia and North Carolina during the USDM period.
In Florida, recent dryness has continued, prompting the expansion of D0 in the central part of the state where the 180-day precipitation deficits are 7-10 inches.
South Precipitation was generally above normal (0.5-2.0 inch surpluses) across north central Texas, eastern Oklahoma and extreme northwestern Arkansas during the USDM period.
Moderate and Extreme drought was expanded in central and parts of southern Texas.
Precipitation continues to miss western Oklahoma where 28-day streamflows are running below the fifth percentile and precipitation for the last 6-months is around 20 percent of normal.
High Plains Precipitation was light across the region during the USDM period as, generally speaking, less than 1 inch of precipitation fell.
At the 6-month time scale, precipitation amounts are 30-50 percent of normal in Southern California.
However, for the same period (6-month), the recent storm brought the precipitation totals closer to normal in the central and northern Sierra.
Elsewhere, lighter precipitation is forecasted to fall in the northern and central Rockies, High Plains, and Northeast.