Northwest slips deeper into drought, while south improves

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Northwestern California has slipped deeper into drought while Southern California continued to show benefitsfrom an exceptionally wet spring, according to U.S. Drought Monitor data released yesterday.Extreme drought now covers Del Norte County and parts of adjacent Siskiyou, Humboldt and Trinity counties inthe monitor's latest report, which reflects data as of Tuesday.A swath of counties extending south to the San Francisco Bay Area changed from moderate to severe drought,the monitor said.Most of the rest of Northern and central California remained in a mix of moderate drought or in the category ofabnormal dryness.No drought or dryness was indicated for all of Southern California, extending up the coast through MontereyCounty.Southern California's weather, however, was taking a significant turn into the first heat wave of the year as a hotair mass settled into the region and high pressure built.