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Where is drought this week?
As of December 14-20, 2016, drought (D1-D4) is impacting:
23.5%
of the US and 28.2% of the lower 48 states.
133.8 million
people in the U.S. and 133.8 in the lower 48 states.
Streaks of heavy precipitation fell from the Ohio Valley into the Northeast and across the lower Southeast this past week. Stormy weather also prevailed in the West, particularly in California and southwestern Oregon—but also extending inland to the Rockies. Amid the active weather pattern, an Arctic outbreak peaked on December 17-18, sending temperatures as low as -40°F across northern portions of the Plains and Intermountain West and below 0°F as far south as the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.