Drought still here but eases across the state
Long-range forecast predicts more improvement
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Last updated 3/29/2023 at 11:17am
Havre Daily News/Christy Bambrough
The sun shining from behind clouds highlights the snow-covered ground west of Havre. With heavy snow in the fall through this month, the ratings for this area on the U.S. Drought Monitior have improved, with more improvement expected through June.
For the first time in months, Montana has no area listed on the U.S. Drought Monitor as in extreme drought, a possible sign that this part of the state might move out of extreme dry conditions for the fist time in nearly three years.
A patch across the northern part of the state, starting in Hill and Chouteau counties and running through Blaine County, to the North Dakota Border, still is listed as in severe drought, but a patch of the bright red Category D3 Extreme Drought finally has disappeared.
The March 21, 2023, Drought Monitor map was the first since July 13, 2021, that part of at...
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