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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted a new blog that describes how drought is defined, how the Drought Monitor determines its level, and the problems that it has capturing agricultural drought. They also describe a project looking at how drought is communicated and what they learned about improving communication. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/09/new-resources-address-drought-communication-challenges/.
