Seasonal to below-normal temperatures were observed across much of the Northeast this week. Given drought is strongly entrenched in the Four Corners, an active Southwest Monsoon circulation will need to persist for conditions to improve. However, this only acted to halt any further degradations this week. Heavy rainfall associated with the Southwest Monsoon also fell across parts of the Four Corners region. In the Pacific Northwest, below-normal temperatures and recent improvements from an active weather pattern leading up to this week resulted in improvements in some of the long-term drought indicators. Another week of heavy rainfall warranted improvements in Montana. From the Central Plains northward, despite the excessive heat (daytime high temperatures above 100☏ several days this week), recent improvements driven by an active storm track leading up to this week resulted in modest, more targeted degradations in the drought depiction. Precipitation was lacking in many locations that experienced excessive (in some cases record) heat, leading to widespread expansion of abnormal dryness and moderate drought conditions along the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, the Southern Plains, and the Southeast. The western third of CONUS, the Northeast, and coastal Mid-Atlantic experienced seasonal to below-normal temperatures. (CONUS) this week from the Great Plains eastward to the Mississippi Valley and Southeast.
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Much above-normal temperatures plagued much of the central and eastern contiguous U.S.