Drought
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The drought situation in California continues to be a concern to farmers across the US because of its impacts on fruit and vegetable markets as well as dairy. In spite of hopes for a recovery this year due to El Nino and heavier than normal rainfall in December, since then rainfall in California has been…
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Slate magazine’s website had an ominous article today about the drought in California, which has gotten even worse in recent weeks after a wet start to the winter. Last year California’s temperature was more than 2 degrees higher than the previous record due in part to the drought, and this month some parts of the…
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Two new reports on the Midwestern drought of 2012 and the continuing drought conditions in California are now available online. The report on the 2012 drought in the central US and how it evolved from the floods of 2011 was published by the National Drought Monitor today. A description of the conclusions and links to…
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NOAA released their annual summary report for 2014 this morning. You can read the report at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/2014/12. The report shows that this is the 18th year in a row that the US average temperature has exceeded the 20th century average, and the 34th warmest year for the contiguous US. In general, most of the Southeast…
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The latest Drought Monitor report came out on Thursday and shows that most drought in the Southeast is gone due to recent rains. Only a small area around Mobile Bay in AL is still showing moderate drought. You can see the latest Drought Monitor at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx?southeast. This often happens over the winter, when evaporation is low…
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AgWeb published a report today on a talk given to the Texas Plant Protection Association by Carlos Rubinstein, chairman of the Texas Water Development Board. The talk covered the effects of recent droughts on crop and livestock production in the state. Rubinstein reviewed the impacts of the 2009-2011 drought on farm incomes and discussed the growing population in Texas…
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The latest Drought Monitor came out this morning and shows that severe drought has been reduced to less than half a percent of the Southeast. It is now confined to an area in the panhandle of Alabama surrounding Mobile. Abnormal dryness continues in many areas of the Southeast except for the Florida peninsula, but is…