Drought
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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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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast will get less than half an inch in the next week, with what little that comes falling later in the time period. This is likely to increase the area under moderate drought. We will see when the next drought map comes out on Thursday.
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The latest Drought Monitor came out this morning and shows that the area experiencing moderate drought in the Southeast has almost tripled since last week. D1 now covers all of the northern counties of Georgia with a small excursion into Alabama, and all of western North Carolina is also designated D1 this week. Drought conditions…
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Rainfall varied widely across the state in April. Heavy rain fell in the southern half of the state while the northern portion was mainly quite dry, leading to the development of moderate drought in the northeast counties. Temperatures almost everywhere were above normal for the month. Tornadoes were observed on April 1 and 6.…