California and National Drought Summary for November 14, 2017 and 10 Day Weather Outlook

Widespread heavy precipitation was restricted to the central and northern West Coast from the Cascades and northern Sierra Nevada westward.
Southeast In a swath across central Georgia, and across south-central Virginia and adjacent areas, 1 to locally near 2 inches of precipitation fell; only a few tenths of an inch, if any, was recorded elsewhere.
Notable longer-term (90-day) deficits, however, are limited to the regions of moderate drought.
No measurable precipitation has fallen during the last 30 to 45 days in southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and interior southern Texas while 90-day deficits are generally between 4 and 8 inches from central Mississippi westward to northeastern Texas and northward through eastern Oklahoma, much of Arkansas, and the southern half of Missouri.
Midwest Only a few tenths of an inch of precipitation, if any, was observed region-wide; however, this time of year, development and intensification of dryness occurs gradually, so few changes were made to the depiction.
Cumulative changes over the past few weeks prompted the removal of D1 from northeast Ohio and D0 from northwestern Ohio while some expansion of dryness and moderate drought was brought into southeastern Iowa and adjacent sections of Missouri and Illinois.
Farther south, no measurable precipitation has fallen for at least the last 30 days on the central and western Four Corners States, Nevada, and the southeastern half of California.
Amounts of 0.5 to locally approaching 2.0 inches are expected in the Northeast, the northern and central Appalachians, the eastern Great Lakes, and the central and northern sections of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
During the 6-10 day period (November 21-25), odds favor above-median precipitation only across the Florida Panhandle, the northern Intermountain West, and the northern half of the West Coast States.
Below-median precipitation is anticipated elsewhere except in the southern half of the High Plains, the northern Plains, most of the Great Basin, and the Southwest, where neither abnormal wetness nor dryness is favored.

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