Northeast News

Improvements Continue This Week for Some
The U.S. Drought Monitor released on Thursday, June 25 showed drought and/or abnormally dry conditions improve in northern and interior areas due to plentiful precipitation, as well as in some spots that saw locally heavy rainfall. However, conditions deteriorated in central Maryland, which missed out on much of the beneficial precipitation. There were generally limited changes elsewhere in the Northeast.

• Extreme drought shrank in parts of Maryland.
• Severe drought contracted in parts of West Virginia, southeastern Pennsylvania, southwestern New Jersey, and southeastern New Hampshire but expanded in parts of Maryland.
• Abnormal dryness was erased from a large portion of Maine.
• Record-low seven-day streamflow was found along a path from Maryland to Massachusetts.
• Groundwater levels were record low in several areas including parts of Maryland, southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, eastern New York, and Massachusetts.
• Growers in parts of West Virginia continued to note drought-related impacts like significantly reduced hay yields and poor pasture conditions.
• The short-term outlooks for June 30-July 4 predict above-normal temperatures for the entire Northeast, which could offset above-normal precipitation in some areas and lead to lingering or worsening conditions in areas that see below- or near-normal precipitation.

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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