Drought
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With little snowfall over the past winter, Westerners are looking at the potential for a dire year with very low water availability. There are already reductions in water deliveries in place across the region, and many farmers will not have enough water to grow crops this year. According to CBS News, this may be the…
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This is the time of year when dry spells can lead to flash droughts as plants come out of dormancy and start to really increase their water use. While I don’t see much chance of that for the Southeast anytime soon, it’s still a good practice to pay careful attention to the conditions that are…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that moderate (D1) drought in southern Florida expanded over the last week due to the lack of rainfall but contracted in Puerto Rico. The rest of the region did not change from last week’s Monitor. With less than 0.5 inches of rain expected in South Florida in…
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This week’s Drought Monitor showed that rain in Alabama has removed the moderate (D1) drought and a good bit of the abnormally dry conditions there. It also reduced dry conditions in Georgia. There are now two small areas of D1 in southern Florida, but overall dry conditions did not expand. There is also a new…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the area of moderate drought (D1) in Alabama has contracted due to more rain in that state. But a small area of D1 was added to the far southwestern corner of Florida, and abnormally dry (D0) conditions expanded in both Florida and Georgia. Rain this week…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry conditions expanded substantially in Florida over the last week, while the moderate drought in Alabama and Puerto Rico slightly decreased. Georgia’s abnormally dry conditions stayed about the same. Not much rain is expected in Florida for the next week, so we could see D0…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while drought did not expand in Alabama, abnormally dry conditions expanded in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia with little rain and warm temperatures making for pleasant but dry weather. Now that plants are coming out of dormancy and temperatures are going up, we can expect to see…
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