Drought
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Drought across many parts of the world is causing problems for farmers that are either harvesting their summer crops or planting winter ones. In Europe, a drought combined with several heat waves devastated maize production there, causing shortages that may be a 15-year low for the crop, according to Reuters. The droughts there and in…
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A recent scientific study of droughts by Colorado University scientists has shown that typical hydrological droughts have not changed their rates of intensification over time, the intensification of fast-onset droughts (often called flash droughts) is accelerating and they are developing and getting worse more quickly than any time in the last 70 years of the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this week, shows that an area of severe (D2) drought in northeastern Georgia has significantly expanded and moderate drought has developed in western North Carolina due to the lack of any rainfall over the last few weeks. Another area of drought has expanded in the Florida Panhandle into parts of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded in most of the region but especially the western part, including most of Alabama and Georgia and parts of the Carolinas and Florida. This is due to the completely lack of rainfall under continuing high pressure after the remains of Ian moved…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the copious rainfall from Hurricane Ian decimated drought in North and South Carolina and in Virginia, but the path of the storm left Georgia, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle with almost no rain at all, leading to increases in drought and abnormally dry conditions there. With no…
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Water supplies in the Middle East can be highly variable and at times hard to come by. Lebanese farmers have used novel methods for collecting rainwater to help supplement irrigation water for crop production. But in recent years, rainfall has gotten more scarce, leading to difficulty in maintaining their crops with a dwindling water supply.…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows an expansion of moderate (D1) drought in Virginia and North and South Carolina and abnormally dry (D0) conditions in Alabama and Georgia as almost no rain fell in the last week. By comparison, drought was eliminated and dry conditions shrunk in Florida, which felt the early effects…
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