Drought
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This week’s Drought Monitor showed that the incredible rain from Hurricane Helene completely wiped out drought in areas along its path. In some cases, there was a 3-category change in drought conditions, from extreme drought to none at all, because of the torrential rain. This is the first time I can remember seeing such a…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that rain from Francine helped improve drought conditions in the Florida Panhandle, SW Georgia, and a lot of Alabama. However, Francine’s rain petered out near the Fall Line and north of that, conditions got worse over scattered pockets of the region. Some of the rain from the Potential…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday morning, shows that drought has expanded across most of the western part of our region due to heat and lack of rainfall. A small sliver of extreme (D3) drought was identified in northern Alabama and many areas of drought jumped up a category, while there were just a…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released earlier today, shows that severe drought (D2) now covers over a quarter of Alabama. Moderate drought (D1) and a small spot of severe drought are now present in western parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The eastern parts of the region are still free of dry conditions…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, show that dry conditions expanded across Alabama as well as western parts of Georgia and Florida this week in the areas that were not affected by Hurricane Debby. There was very little rain there and temperatures were warmer than normal. There were no changes in Virginia from…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows that while there have been very slight improvements in dry conditions in the eastern part of the region, a lot of Alabama has been designated as abnormally dry (D0). There are also a couple of small areas on the east coast of Florida. This is because most of the eastern…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows big improvements in drought conditions across a lot of the Southeast along the path of Debby as it moved north through the region. In some parts of South and North Carolina, the rainfall was so much that the drought improved by two categories, which usually only happens in…
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