Drought
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows conditions that will be as dry as a bone for the next week for the vast majority of the Southeast. Just a few areas show any rain at all and only western Tennessee has a chance of getting anything really substantial. What is worse is that if you look…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought continued to expand and worsen across the region in spite of some rain that fell on Easter, dampening sunrise services but failing to make much of a dent in the water deficits. The area of exceptional (D4) drought continues to expand in southern Georgia and the…
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The exceptionally warm and dry winter that affected the western US is likely to lead to summer conditions that could be disastrous in the extent of fire and drought that may be experienced. Grist magazine describes the devastating lack of snow cover this year, which usually provides 60-70 percent of the Northwest’s water supply and…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released last Thursday, shows that drought increased in large parts of the Southeast in the past week due to the lack of rain. The area of exceptional D4 drought increased to over 5% of the region. Less than 3 % of the region has no dry conditions at all. Some…
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The most recent Drought Monitor, released late last week, showed an increase in drought conditions across most of the region, although a few small areas that got rain did see some improvement. The biggest increase was in exceptional drought in southern Georgia and northern Florida with some smaller areas of growing drought in the Carolinas.…
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an area of exceptional drought (D4) was added to south-central Georgia and northern Florida this week as conditions continue to be very warm and dry in that region. Drought did improve in Alabama, northern Georgia and North Carolina, but also got worse in western Virginia. In Alabama, dry conditions were…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows only a few small changes in the map compared to last week, with slight increases in drought area overall. There were a few small areas of improvement in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. There was no change in the Puerto Rico map, with less than one percent of…
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