Similar to areas farther north, moderate to heavy rain fell on most of the Region, especially from the central Florida Peninsula northward through most of the Florida Panhandle, south-central through east-central Georgia, and central South Carolina. Most locations there reported over 2 inches of rain. Another fairly solid swath of similar amounts extended across central and south-central Virginia, in addition to some smaller patches across the Region that included portions of the coastal Carolinas, the Piedmont and eastern slopes of the Appalachians across southern Virginia and the western Carolinas, and part of the southern Appalachians. Excessive totals of 5 to locally 10 inches of rain drenched the northwestern Florida Peninsula and adjacent locations in the eastern Panhandle, and there were scattered locations recording over 5 inches of rain within the broader areas with 2 inches or more noted above. These rains brought improvement to several swaths across the Region, most notably from the northwestern Florida Peninsula westward through much of the Panhandle, but similar to some places in the Northeast Region, the entrenched nature of the drought kept improvements more muted than might seem logical. Only a few small isolated spots saw a 2-category improvement despite inundating rains, and a majority of locations across Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and southern through eastern Florida are unchanged from last week. Despite the wet week, rainfall over the past 4 months is 2 to locally 6 inches below normal across most of central through southwestern Virginia, northern North Carolina, the eastern tier of South Carolina and adjacent North Carolina, and many locations scattered across the Florida Peninsula.

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