Drought
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how extension agents and agricultural producers in the Southeast can file reports on local conditions, including both droughts and floods. This hyper-local information is used by the weekly authors of the U. S. Drought Monitor to draw updated maps of drought conditions across the country. I took a…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released today, and it shows that across the Southeast, abnormally dry (D0) and moderate (D1) drought expanded due to the light rainfall and high temperatures that were experienced under a strong dome of high pressure. For agricultural producers, the hot and dry conditions could not come at a worse time…
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As you might expect, some of our region has experienced an increase in abnormally dry conditions in the latest Drought Monitor, released this morning. While severe drought has not changed or slightly decreased (in NC), other areas have seen abnormally dry (D0) conditions expand under the heat and lack of rainfall. In Virginia, Florida, and…
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I am not a fan of spicy food but I know some of you are. Here is a consequence of the California drought that you might not have seen–a shortage of the spicy Sriracha hot sauce that many people use in Asian cooking due to the failure of the red chile pepper crop in California…
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You may have heard or read about the lengthy drought that has been impacting the western US over the last decade or two. Since written records only go back into the 1800s, scientists use tree rings to provide proxy data that can help identify when rainfall was scant, since trees don’t grow much in a…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded in North and South Carolina and Georgia but was reduced in other Southeastern states due to the pattern of rainfall this past week. Drought also expanded significantly in Puerto Rico, where over 60 percent of the island is now in moderate (D1) drought.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that while the area of drought only contracted slightly, the area of abnormally dry (D0) conditions was cut substantially by the recent rain, as expected, especially in the mountains. We may see further reductions in drought this week based on the showery activity that we have seen tonight.…
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