Hall County got steady rainfall Thursday and may pick up a decent amount next week, around Christmas Day, and the water-starved area needs all it can get. The U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest report, released Thursday, still shows that while Hall is in moderate drought, severe and even extreme drought are encroaching. Portions of Dawson and Lumpkin counties have extreme drought, while portions of Forsyth, Dawson and Lumpkin counties and all of Habersham County are in severe drought, according to the report, produced by the Nebraska-based National Drought Mitigation Center.