Here you see a usually robust spring-fed stream in the nearby woods as it barely rolled downhill yesterday. Its water volume has been diminishing recently, despite a relatively wet week.
Our woods are abnormally dry for the season; rain often comes in bursts that are too heavy and short to saturate the soil.
The latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, released this morning, show abnormal dryness and even moderate drought up the entire New England coast as well as in the usual southwestern Maine pocket:
Not good. (Photograph taken in Brooklin, Maine, June 1, 2022.)