Much warmer-than-normal temperatures covered the South as it is enveloped in the continuing heat wave, especially eastern Texas and Louisiana where temperatures ranged from 4 to 8 degrees above normal compared to the rest of the region where temperatures were near normal to 4 degrees above normal. While south Florida saw areas of heavy precipitation, the western Peninsula saw abnormal dryness and moderate drought introduced from the Tampa Bay area south to Fort Myers in part because of continued low streamflows and soil moisture deficits. Moving south from Virginia there is a steady gradient from cooler-than-normal temperatures to warmer-than-normal temperatures. Temperatures in most of the Southeast were near normal to a few degrees above and below normal. Northern Virginal also saw improvements in moderate drought and abnormal dryness based on recent rainfall and increased streamflow. This week, heavy rainfall was spotty across the region with pockets in south Florida and near the northern Alabama-Georgia border allowing for improvements to be made. Severe drought in central Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania remains from last week. Conditions also improved in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia due to scattered heavy rains in the last week. The North Atlantic coast saw abnormal dryness completely removed from Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, except for the Cape Cod area, which still remains in abnormally dry condition. Heavy rains fell in parts of the Northeast this week, bringing continued relief to areas of drought and abnormal dryness (particularly along the Atlantic coast from Philadelphia up through New York and through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) and improving streamflows and alleviating some of the short-term precipitation deficits. No changes were made to the USDM depictions this week outside of the Lower 48.
A mix of degradations and improvements occurred in the Pacific Northwest. A re-evaluation of conditions in parts of the western Great Plains led to some improvements to long-term dryness and long-term moderate drought in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle region, and in western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming, respectively. Dry weather in the Upper Midwest led to further degrading conditions in parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. To the south and west, in southern Missouri, the Texas-Louisiana border and other parts of central Texas, drier weather led to worsening precipitation deficits, and significant problems with hay production in parts of southern Missouri. Heavy rains fell this week across parts of the Midwest, Ohio River Valley and Northeast, which led to widespread improvements from southeast Nebraska to central Illinois, southern Indiana, and central and eastern Kentucky.
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