Drought
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A recent study published in Nature Communications by scientists from Texas and Hong Kong described new research on how fast flash droughts can develop. “Flash droughts” are primarily driven by little rain combined with high temperatures and mainly affect agriculture because of the plants’ needs for regular infusions of water. According to an article in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that moderate (D1) drought has doubled in size in Georgia from last week’s map due to no rain over the last week. Since the cutoff of this map, we have received 0.5 to 2.0 inches so some of this may be cut back on next week’s map,…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the areal coverage of drought decreased in all states due to recent rain. However, in eastern North Carolina, a new area of severe (D2) drought was added as those counties were largely missed by recent rain events. Most of the region except western Alabama are not…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that in the region as a whole, drought decreased in most areas due to recent rain. This includes the elimination of severe (D2) drought in Florida as heavy rains fell over the driest area. Some dry conditions shrunk in the Carolinas but the area of moderate (D1)…
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The dry conditions we have seen over the last few weeks remained in place through the Drought Monitor map cutoff on Tuesday. This resulted in widespread increases in the amount of area covered by abnormally dry (D0) and moderate drought (D1). A small area of severe drought (D2) was introduced to the northwestern part of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there has been a significant expansion of moderate (D1) drought in most of the region this week, especially in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. This is due to the lack of rain last week and the warm temperatures. Since these conditions are likely to continue…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions have expanded to cover more than 40% of the region, and moderate drought (D1) has been introduced to or expanded in every state except for Virginia. The presence of high pressure over the region coupled with warm temperatures and little rain led to…
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