The forecast through February 2026 expects deficits in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Levant. Surpluses are expected in the western Amazon, the Sahel and southern Africa, and northeastern Australia.
Severe to exceptional surpluses will remain throughout Queensland. Exceptional deficits will occur in portions of Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.
Exceptional deficits will occur in northwestern and southeastern China, widespread throughout the Yangtze River Basin. Isolated pockets of surplus will affect portions of central and northeastern China.
Exceptional surpluses throughout Maritime Southeast Asia will mostly diminish, though pockets of severe to exceptional deficits will persist in portions of the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua, West Papua, and New Guinea.
The forecast through January indicates widespread, intense water deficits across central Quebec, and moderate surpluses in the south. In Ontario, moderate deficits are expected in the south, though conditions may be more intense around Ottawa, and widespread surpluses for much of the north. Elsewhere, a complex patchwork of anomalies is forecast including deficits of varying severity across the southern Prairie Provinces and intense surpluses in southern British Columbia.
The forecast through January indicates that exceptional deficits in Africa will shrink considerably, but moderate to severe deficits are forecast across much of the north. Areas of intense deficit include southeastern Algeria; the Nile River, the White Nile and parts of the Blue Nile; northwestern and southeastern Nigeria; western Ethiopia; and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo into Central African Republic. Areas of surpluses include south-central Chad and Liberia.
The forecast through January indicates intense surpluses in western Myanmar, eastern Myanmar along the Sittong and Salween Rivers, northern Laos, and northern Vietnam. Deficits will persist in western Cambodia, increase in Thailand, and emerge in central Myanmar, central Laos, central Vietnam, and the Philippines. Conditions will be especially intense in Cambodia and Thailand.
Through January, water deficits will moderate in Afghanistan and Pakistan but remain intense northeast of Kabul and along the Harirud River, and around Karachi and east of Hyderabad. In India, deficits will increase and intensify, blanketing a vast extent across the country’s girth, and will include exceptional deficits throughout Gujarat in the west and severe to exceptional deficits from Madhya Pradesh through Karnataka, as well as in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, and India’s Far Northeast.
The forecast through January calls attention to significant water surpluses that will cut a wide north/south path from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula down through Texas, and will emerge in the Ohio River Valley leading into widespread surpluses in the east from Maine to South Carolina. Surpluses are expected to be exceptional in Texas, Wisconsin, and Iowa, among other areas. Moderate to extreme deficits are forecast for Florida. Deficits are also forecast for central Colorado, the Rio Grande through New Mexico, and northwestern California into Oregon.
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