degrees of "bad"

I just read in the Arizona Republic. Our drought condition has been increased from "severe" to "extreme". Only took 11 years to get to that level.

If it gets any worse, we can go one further level to "exceptional".

The only "good" news of this is that not the entire state is in extreme drought. Just the parts that have forests. Parts of Texas are already in exceptional (probably the areas that are burning in wildfires). You can see the drought monitor here.