Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that all areas of drought have been improved by one category. This resulted in the removal of all extreme (D3) drought from the region. Rain in the southern half of the region should continue to improve things there, although North Carolina and Virginia will see little rain…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows only slight improvements in the drought this week. Since the cutoff was Tuesday morning and a lot more rain has fallen since then, we can expect to see further improvements in next week’s map. By contrast, Puerto Rico’s moderate drought has expanded and now covers over half…
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In the past week, moderate (D1) drought doubled in coverage in Puerto Rico, which has not seen much rain in the last couple of weeks. In the mainland Southeast, however, there has been widespread improvement in drought conditions, with 1-category changes in more than half of Georgia plus western VA, NC, and SC. In Alabama,…
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All of the rain that we have gotten in the last week has resulted in significant improvement of drought conditions across large parts of the Southeast. Every state has seen reductions in drought, and more is likely this week with the next storm coming through on Friday. Even Alabama, which is still mostly covered by…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released last week, shows that drought improved along the spine of the Southern Appalachians with the rain we got. However, abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded in central Georgia and Alabama, which were largely missed by the last rain. In Puerto Rico there was no change in drought but abnormally dry conditions…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows widespread improvements in drought in eastern North and South Carolina and Virginia due to the East Coast storm last week. Conditions in parts of Alabama and Georgia, which were largely missed by the storm, got worse in the latest map. There were no changes in Puerto Rico this…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought in the Southeast decreased due to recent rains. The extreme (D3) drought was removed from North Carolina and shrunk in area in Georgia and Alabama. A small sliver is still hanging on around Tampa on the West Coast of Florida. Other areas of the Southeast generally…
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