The weekly update to the US Drought Monitor was made on Thursday and significant improvements were found over areas impacted by the big snow storm earlier this week / past weekend. The featured chart presents a time series of the area covered over the continental US by a given drought classification category since its inception back in 2000. The recent analysis had about half of the CONUS covered by at least D1 drought. The driest area within Iowa remains over northwestern Iowa with D3 still analyzed over a few counties in that region.

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