The weekly update to the US Drought Monitor was released yesterday and continued to show overall improvements to analyzed drought over the United States. It has been quite the cold season with numerous "atmospheric rivers" slamming the west coast and record amounts of snow / precipitation over areas of the Midwest and western US. The featured chart presents a smoothed analysis of weekly change in drought coverage over the contiguous US. The magnitude of the filled areas represent the relative amount of change in drought coverage. A unit height represents 1/5th the area of the contiguous US. Since 1 November 2022, we have seen near continuous improvement in drought coverage.

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