Drought
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The Beyond the Data blog from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI, formerly NCDC) has another excellent entry this week. Jake Crouch describes the evolution of the four-year Texas drought from start to finish. You can read the story at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/reflections-really-big-drought. The article concludes by stressing the importance of collecting quality data for monitoring climate.
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will become home to the new Drought Risk Management Research Center, as part of the National Drought Mitigation Center. The NDMC currently produces the National Drought Monitor and other products that help identify developing and strengthening droughts in the US and the world. The upgrade will help the facility to better…
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The latest outlook for July 2015 was released last week by NOAA and shows that the recent pattern of wet north, dry south in the Southeast is expected to continue for the rest of July. The outlook shows that if this pattern persists, drought development is likely in the coastal plains of Georgia and the…
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Although a lot of the pollution that plagues the Southeast comes from local sources, we also get imports from other locations. This week smoke from forest fires as far away as Alaska are blowing into the Lower 48 states. The recent record-setting warm conditions have increased the length of the fire season there by up…
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Georgia’s Board of Natural Resources approved a new drought plan last week, according to Walter C. Jones of Morris News Service in this article from OnlineAthens.com. The drought plan was modified from an earlier drought plan that caused farmers and agribusinesses some concerns in the exceptional 2007-2009 drought in north Georgia. The new plan is…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released today and shows that the area of severe (D2) drought in the Southeast increased from 0.25 percent of the area to 1.67 percent. The main increase was in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida, which have largely been missed by recent rains and have suffered under above average temperatures. You…
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NOAA is now predicting a 90 percent chance of a strong El Nino lasting into the fall and most likely through the winter. What does that mean for impacts across the country? Cliff Mass has an excellent blog posting on this subject at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-strong-el-nino-develops-what-does.html. Even though his blog is directed towards the Pacific Northwest, you can…