Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought improved in Alabama, northern Georgia, and South Carolina but generally stayed the same or got worse in many other areas, including Florida and North Carolina. Overall, the area of drought increased slightly, although the area of exceptional (D4) drought did decrease a bit. In Puerto Rico,…
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Here is a stark story from Scientific American about the need to move the capital of Iran from Tehran to another location with more water. The reason is a combination of lingering drought caused by warming temperatures due to climate change and significant overuse of the aquifers underneath the city to provide both drinking water…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that drought expanded and got worse in most of the region this past week with just a few minor improvements in NW Virginia and SE Georgia. The area of exceptional (D4) drought more than doubled in SW Georgia and NW Florida as no rain fell this…
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The lack of significant precipitation in the past week has led to increases in drought conditions almost everywhere in the region. Small improvements occurred in parts of Virginia, but most states experienced an expansion of drought and abnormally dry conditions. Dry conditions also expanded in Puerto Rico. The worst-hit areas of the region are in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows only slight changes in drought conditions across the region this week. The biggest increases in drought came in Florida and Virginia, with just small adjustments in most of the other states. Since the next week is going to be dry for most of the region and temperatures will…
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The effects of the rain that we experienced last week are finally helping to reduce the severity of drought in the region. The area of extreme drought has been reduced in most areas, although it expanded slightly in the Florida Panhandle, and most other drought-covered areas reduced their severity. Our next round of rain will…
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The latest outlook for the November 2025 climate was issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center earlier this week. It shows that the prediction for temperature has equal likelihood of near, above, and below normal temperatures. We do expect cooler than usual temperatures for the next week with slowly rising temperatures, then another cool down by…