Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this past Thursday, shows that Alabama improved and reduced its dry conditions in the past week. The lack of rain in the eastern part of the region resulted in increases in dry conditions and drought in Georgia and North Carolina. Rain should be relatively light in the next week so…
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Rain across parts of the region led to an improvement in drought and abnormally dry conditions this week, with just two very small areas in Alabama and Georgia getting worse. Rain or wintry precipitation in the next week may lead to more improvements. If you are interested to see where the changes occurred, you can…
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The swath of rain that feel across parts of the region produced a significant decrease in drought conditions in the past week, with the coverage of area that are officially in drought decreasing from 52% to 26% of the area. Many areas still remain in abnormally dry conditions, and there were some increases in the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that dry conditions and drought have significantly expanded in North Carolina, northern South Carolina, southern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee this past week due to very low rainfall. A few scattered areas in other parts of the region also saw small increases in dry conditions, especially in Florida. Next…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released today, shows a widespread area of improvement in drought conditions in central Alabama and small areas of improvement in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. There was some degradation in drought conditions in Tennessee, Florida, and SE North Carolina. There was widespread improvement in the central United States but conditions…
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This was a week of haves and have-nots for soil moisture in the Southeast. An area of very heavy rain (6-10 inches in some areas) in southeastern GA and adjacent parts of SC removed drought from that portion of the region. The rest of the region experienced almost no rain and as a result, moderate…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded to cover nearly all of the Southeast except the Florida peninsula this week due to the continued lack of rain through Tuesday, the cutoff period for the latest map. Drought conditions got worse in Alabama as well. Next week we may see…
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