Last month I attended a workshop on the US Drought Monitor and presented a talk on recent flash droughts in the Southeast. There were a variety of different talks relating to drought in our region and how the impacts are not always caught in the Drought Monitor because of how…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows small improvements in dry conditions in the Florida Panhandle and the removal of abnormally dry conditions altogether from Georgia and an expansion of abnormally dry conditions in central Florida, which has largely been missed by rain. With little rain expected there in the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that while drought was removed from Georgia and was reduced in Florida, the area of abnormally dry conditions in Florida expanded quite a bit. That region has been missed by most of the recent rains, leading to the degradation in soil…
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Here is a cute 6-minute video which explains how drought is assessed in the US by the Drought Monitor. It’s produced by our CoCoRaHS friends, who also have a lot of handy videos on how to measure precipitation. It includes a discussion of what the different drought classifications mean and…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that the area of moderate drought in the Florida Panhandle has gotten worse over the past week and is now classified as Severe Drought (D2). Most of this region was bypassed by the rain storms that drowned northern Georgia and Alabama in the last week. Fortunately, next week’s rain…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area of abnormally dry conditions has decreased significantly since last week’s map. All abnormally dry (D0) conditions are gone from the Carolinas and almost all of it is gone from Alabama. The small area of moderate drought (D1) in southern Georgia…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that while recent rains have reduced the area of abnormally dry conditions in North Carolina and Florida, there has been a slight expansion of moderate drought from Florida into far southern Georgia as they received little rain in the last week. We will…
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