Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that dry conditions have expanded across the Southeast due to the limited amount of rain that we received in the past week and the warm temperatures that contributed to evaporation. The biggest increases were in Florida and southern GA but there are also smaller patches of increased drought…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows improvement in the drought intensity this week due to the rain we got last weekend. However, this rain has provided only limited relief to the soil moisture in the top 100 cm and dry conditions continue in many areas below the surface layer. The rain tonight (Thursday…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows small overall changes in drought across the region. There were generally some slight improvements in the southern half of the region due to recent rain and slight degradations in the northern half due to the lack of rain. We may see the opposite effect this coming week…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that due to some fairly substantial rains there was improvement in dry conditions in many parts of the region. However, some minor increases in dry conditions were noted in north central GA, western NC, and in Florida. The Virgin Islands continue to be abnormally dry but…
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The overall coverage of drought conditions across the Southeast decreased slightly on this week’s Drought Monitor map due to recent rainfall across the coastal plains. However, dry conditions expanded in Florida and North Carolina and were introduced in the U. S. Virgin Islands this week. The heaviest rain in the next week should occur in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought expanded and got stronger across quite a bit of the region but especially in eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and western North Carolina. The data cutoff for this map was before the last storm occurred, but many areas did not receive much rain from the line of…
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I forgot to post the latest drought conditions map last week, so here it is. The next map will come out on Thursday morning. The map from last week shows slightly improvements over the previous week due to some rain that occurred mainly over the western parts of the region. There continues to be no…
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