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🥳 After frequent periods of heavy precipitation, major drought improvement occurred this spring across the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley.

🌧️ Heavy precipitation from May 28 to June 3 resulted in additional improvements to parts of the central and southern Great Plains.

🥵 A dry start to the thunderstorm season and above-normal temperatures continued to result in drought expansion and intensification across the southern half of the Florida Peninsula.

☔ Anomalously heavy precipitation for late May into the beginning of June led to drought improvement across parts of Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana.

🌺 Drought of varying intensity persists for parts of Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii.

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