About 80 percent of the country is drought-free.
Workers open the gates of the Bonnet Carre spillway, which diverts water from the rising Mississippi River, in Norco, La. By Ian Livingston Ian Livingston Email Bio Follow April 4 at 12:51 PM Following a predominantly wet second half of 2018 — and the same for many places in the first three months of 2019 — the Lower 48 is moving into spring with very few regions in drought conditions.
When it comes to total coverage of “no drought,” this week is the second-highest at around 80 percent, trailing only a period in May 2017 into June 2017, when as much as 85 percent of the country was drought-free. Comparing drought now to the highest percentage in Drought Monitor's data. Before this year or 2017, to find other recent times with comparatively little drought of any category across the Lower 48, we need to look back to the summer of 2010 and the fall of 2009. Like this year, that was an El Niño winter and spring, which are known for producing wet conditions in much of the country.
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