The dry spell has persisted in parts of the region for over 18 months, and weather patterns are not expected to co-operate in ending the "exceptional" rain deficits for the foreseeable future.
The area is sparsely populated and is characterized by rain deficits, resulting in water shortages that reduce its livestock production potential.
Of course, with such huge rain deficits in place, a couple inches will be just "a chink in the armor" of the drought, as McManus put it.
As mud and debris cleanup continued Monday in many parts of Los Angeles County, meteorologists said the area registered only enough rain to make a "small dent in our rainfall deficit".
A rainfall deficit last year — the short rainy season ended early, and rains were rare and irregular — left the land without the surface ponds that many of Niger's 17 million people, most subsistence farmers, depend on.
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A spokesman for the Environment Agency (EA) said as a result of recent rain, soil moisture deficits had decreased in all regions, with river flows normal for the time of year at over half their indicator sites.
In addition to fighting injuries, Detroit finds itself in a deficit as rain continues to interfere with its season.
The last year eastern states were poised to enter summer with such a deficit of rain was 1966, said Jay Lawrimore, the director of climate monitoring at the data center in Asheville.
