Denise Gutzmer<p>Drought expanded across parts of the West, the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Northeast with areas of improvement in Oregon, Montana, North Dakota and Illinois. Drought covers 31.92% of the continental US, an uptick of 2.05 points from last week. </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DroughtMonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DroughtMonitor</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Current</span><span class="invisible">Map.aspx</span></a></p>