Drought
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Vox.com had an interesting story online yesterday discussing the boom and bust of agriculture in Saudi Arabia due to their overuse of groundwater. According to the story, in the 1970s, the government allowed farmers to dig as many wells as they wanted to grow crops. Agriculture boomed, and Saudi Arabia for a while became the…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released today and shows that severe drought (D2) expanded slightly in the Southeast as a whole in the past week. Most of the expansion was in the Carolinas and Georgia; extreme drought was eliminated and conditions improved to “severe drought” in southern Florida due to the rain from the remains of Tropical…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released an article today describing some summer student research on drought indices they have undertaken. You can read the article at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=150&h=5666e5c1. The researcher looked at two different datasets of temperature and created a new drought index to compare to the standard Palmer Drought Severity Index to see how…
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Yahoo News provided a link to a recent story on the eight states that are currently running out of water. I expected to read about California and the Pacific Northwest but did not expect to see South Carolina in the mix. You can read the story here with a list of the eight states. The…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released today and shows that the areas of the highest category of drought were reduced this week due to increases in rain through the driest areas. Most of the improvements occurred before the passage of the remains of TS Erika, which occurred after the September 1 cut-off, so more improvements…
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Precipitation across Georgia in August 2015 varied from over ten inches near the coast and in north central Georgia to less than 2 inc hes in the southwest corner of the state. A few isolated areas received over 15 inches during the month, according to CoCoRaHS observers. Temperatures were very close to normal across the state. The…
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The last 30 days have been very wet in parts of Florida, although the southern tip is quite dry and is in extreme drought. The map below from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows that some areas of western Florida north and south of Tampa have an excess of 8 inches in just the last month. If the path…