Moderate to heavy rainfall doused most of the areas previously affected by dryness and drought, resulting in large swaths of improvement. Amounts exceeding one-half inch were almost ubiquitous from western Maine southward through Maryland, with totals exceeding 2 inches reported across most of this stretch. Southern New England and adjacent New York reported the most widespread heavy amounts. Most of this region received at least 3 inches of rain, with 5 to 8 inches inundating portions of central Massachusetts, north-central Connecticut, southern Rhode Island, and adjacent areas. Not surprisingly, improvements were introduced throughout this corridor, especially across and near southern New England. Moderate drought, however, was maintained across central Massachusetts despite inundating rainfall due to continuing groundwater deficiencies and low well levels, potentially impacting water supplies where those are the primary sources of water supplies. Similarly, though patchy improvements were introduced, abnormal dryness to severe drought remains across most of New Jersey despite large areas receiving 2 to 4 inches of rain. The state Department of Environmental Protection is keeping northern New Jersey in its Drought Warning classification due to continuing stress on water supply sources. In addition, some areas reported intense rainfall rates that dropped large amounts of water on some areas and induced some flooding, but also kept groundwater levels unfavorably low, though they have improved some. In contrast, heavy rains missed areas farther north and northwest, although patchy moderate totals were reported. With short-term moisture deficits increasing, D0 and D1 conditions in Maine were expanded northward, and new swatches of D0 were introduced in part of western Upstate New York and portions of northern Vermont. In these deteriorating locations, 30-day rainfall totals were only 25 to 50 percent of normal, and 90-day totals were 4 to locally 8 inches below normal.

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