Drought
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Another week with little rain has led to the introduction of severe drought into parts of northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia. Moderate drought also expanded in Alabama with the continuing dry conditions. Unfortunately, the Climate Prediction Center has predicted more dry conditions in that area in the month of June, so no respite is immediately…
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Due to rain in the Southeast this week, drought decreased in area in the Carolinas and dry conditions also contracted in Georgia and were eliminated in Florida. But Alabama missed the most beneficial rains and drought conditions expanded there from 8 to 13 percent of the state. You can view your own area at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home.aspx.
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The new Drought Monitor which came out this morning shows a slight expansion of moderate drought across the Southeast. Most states maintained their status quo, but moderate drought expanded into northeast Alabama and abnormally dry conditions there now cover most of the northern half of the state. A change in the atmospheric circulation pattern over…
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Because of the dry conditions in the Carolinas in April, forest fires caused a lot of problems. Here is a write-up of efforts by the North Carolina Forest Service and the State Climate Office of North Carolina to use past weather to help fight the fires this past month.
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Business Insider posted a story this week describing the current drought in Ethiopia, which is one of the worst in the last fifty years. But unlike previous droughts, the worst impacts have been blunted by smarter methods of managing the land. The key to improvements: slowing down runoff so that it does not erode valuable…
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In preparation for an interview next week, I am reading “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.” It’s a great book, and I am enjoying it. I was struck this morning by a description of the dust storms of mid-May, 1934 (82 years ago this week),…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released this morning. It shows that while small areas of drought disappeared in Virginia, it stayed the same or increased in other areas of the Southeast. The biggest increase was in northern Georgia, where the percent of the state in moderate drought increased from 12 to 26 percent of the…
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