Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the drought in Florida deepened from moderate (D1) to severe (D2) in the south. Abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and two small areas of moderate drought were introduced to NC this week due to continuing lack of rainfall. Moderate drought…
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Are you interested in learning more about flash drought or describing how it has affected your community? You may be interested in attending this upcoming workshop on flash drought to be held in Boulder CO on May 2-4. I plan to attend and hope to see a few of you there. Information on the workshop…
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NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) has provided an online dashboard of current drought and water conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system for use in monitoring ongoing conditions in the Alabama/Georgia/Florida river basin. You can visit the dashboard at https://www.drought.gov/watersheds/acf-dashboard and sign up for their newsletter as well as see the current and predicted future…
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There were few changes to the drought condition across most of the Southeast. There were no changes in VA, NC and SC and small decreases in AL and GA. In Florida, there was a slight decrease in areal coverage overall but the area of severe (D2) drought expanded. Moderate drought (D1) was reintroduced to the…
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Have you ever seen the Drought Monitor map and thought to yourself that it was missing some key areas of dry conditions? You may be able to improve their drought designation by providing a daily rainfall measurement at your location. It’s easy to do–join CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network), purchase a high-quality…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama this week with continued warm temperatures and little rainfall. An area of severe (D2) drought was introduced into southern Florida and abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded in the Carolinas too. Continued dry conditions in the Florida peninsula should increase drought…
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As expected, the warm and dry conditions in the southern part of our region have led to a big increase in the area covered by moderate (D1) drought this week. There were minor expansions of abnormally dry conditions (D0) in Alabama and Georgia on the fringes of the drought area. A wetter pattern in week…
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