This week, extreme weather events across the U.S. painted a starkly contrasting picture of drought development and relief.
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This week, a powerful storm system crossed from the Great Plains into the Great Lakes. This brought widespread rain and thunderstorms to parts of the Midwest, and a historic blizzard to portions of the upper Midwest.
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Following a drier-than-normal winter, a pattern change at the beginning of March resulted in widespread heavy precipitation. This improved drought and dryness in parts of the Ohio Valley and Middle to Lower Mississippi Valley.
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Since the beginning of December, drought has expanded and intensified across the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southern Great Plains, which is typical during a La Niña winter.
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Stormy, briefly colder weather in California and elsewhere in the West helped to improve previously meager mountain snowpack.
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Across the West, snowpack remains well below the seasonal average, despite snowfall in some areas this week.
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The past week featured above-normal temperatures across much of the western half of the U.S.
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This week, drought worsened across areas of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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Patchy downpours maintained good soil moisture in much of the upper Midwest, while locally heavy showers dotted the central and southern Plains and the lower Southeast.
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