Northeast News

Targeted Improvements Continued This Week
The U.S. Drought Monitor released on Thursday, July 23 showed drought and/or abnormally dry conditions improve in a few areas across the Northeast where locally heavy rainfall increased streamflow, groundwater levels, and/or soil moisture. There were generally limited changes elsewhere in the region.

• Extreme drought contracted on the Delmarva Peninsula.
• Severe drought shrank in parts of southern New England, southeastern New York, and the Mid-Atlantic.
• Moderate drought was trimmed in portions of southern Connecticut, southeastern Pennsylvania, southwestern New Jersey, and West Virginia.
• Abnormal dryness was erased from sections of northwestern Massachusetts, south-central Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and central West Virginia.
• Record-low seven-day streamflow was found in places like the southern half of the Delmarva Peninsula, southeastern Pennsylvania, coastal New Jersey, central New York, and central Maine.
• Groundwater levels were record low in several areas including parts of Maryland, southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, eastern New York, and southeastern Massachusetts.
• The short-term outlooks for July 28-August 1 predict below- or near-normal temperatures and near- or above-normal precipitation for the Northeast, conditions that could bring improvements to some locations.

For more information, see the Northeast DEWS Dashboard (to see the full Northeast, click on the grayed-out Pennsylvania in the map in the top left) and the Northeast Drought Update. Submit drought impact reports via the Condition Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR) page.

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