A weekly report issued Thursday by a consortium of federal and state climatology experts said that as of Jan. 1, 42.05 percent of the contiguous United States was in severe to exceptional drought, down from 42.45 percent the previous week.
Parts of the central Plains received snow in the last week, providing some much-needed protection for the region’s dormant winter wheat crop before temperatures plunged at the end of December.
However, the snow was insufficient and did not offer much drought relief, according to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report.
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