Drought
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With the rain that much of the region experienced this past week, most drought has been erased from the latest Drought Monitor map, released today. There are still only a few small patches in Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida, and those are likely to be gone soon. A few remnant areas of abnormally dry (D0)…
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Here are a couple of new resources on flash drought from our friends at NIDIS (the National Integrated Drought Information System). The term “flash drought” was coined in the early 2000s to draw attention to the rapid onset or intensification of drought conditions, which can cause large, unexpected environmental and socioeconomic impacts. As a result,…
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In previous blog posts, I have discussed the recent heat wave and drought in Europe. But there is another area of extreme heat and drought as well in China. According to Reuters, China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilize specialist teams to protect crops…
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Here’s a story from CTV News (from Canada) that does an excellent job of describing some of the severe consequences of the U. S. drought out west. It includes impacts on both crops and livestock and how it has affected agricultural production and food prices. You can read it at https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/american-farmers-are-killing-their-own-crops-and-selling-cows-because-of-extreme-drought-1.6031139.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that there were improvements in drought and dry conditions in Virginia and Georgia, minor changes in the Carolinas and Alabama, and a small new area of moderate drought (D1) along the East Coast of Florida. There were no changes in Puerto Rico this week. Rain in the…
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A few days ago I posted a story about the extreme drought in France and how it was affecting farmers there. There have been a number of stories in the press since then. One of the most interesting stories is about how this drought, estimated to be a 500-year-event, has caused streamflow to be so…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that almost all of the drought in the region has improved to lingering abnormally dry conditions. There are still a few small patches of drought in North Carolina and Alabama. Conditions in Puerto Rico have also improved, although some drought remains there as well. Most of the region…
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