Updated Drought Monitor: Improvements for many

Significant rainfall on Monday helped ease drought conditions for some of the area.

PROVIDNECE, R.I. (WLNE) — After torrential, flooding rain impacted parts of the area on Monday, improvements can be seen in this week’s Drought Monitor update. The highest rainfall totals were seen in Providence County and that is where the area has gone from extreme drought conditions down to severe and even down to moderate drought conditions.

Coastal locations experienced less rain early this week, so not as much of a change in the drought monitor for those spots.

The cut off for the weekly drought update is Tuesday morning, so the rainfall that we accumulated on Tuesday is not factored in for this week’s drought update. The next Drought Monitor will be released next Thursday, September 15th at 8:30 a.m.