Drought
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The eastern parts of North and South Carolina and Virginia have been missed by a lot of the recent rains, and so an area of moderate (D1) drought has developed in parts of that region. Since they were so wet last year, it has been a while since they had to deal with dry conditions.…
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Drought and Water Monthly Webinar + Evaporative Demand Drought Index OverviewTuesday, May 25, 2021 at 1 pm ET The webinar will provide updated information on the climate, water, and drought status of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. This drought assessment webinar is brought to you by the Auburn University Water Resources Center and the National Integrated…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that a new area of moderate (D1) drought was introduced to parts of South and North Carolina this week. They have been missed by most of the recent rains that wiped out the dry conditions in Alabama and Georgia. The drought in South Florida expanded very slightly but…
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UPDATE: Webinar recording can be found here. Share this recap using the online version. This is a quick reminder that the special topic for this week’s SE Climate Webinar series on May 11th at 10am is…drought! We have TWO guest speakers: USDM author Brad Pugh – a brief overview of the USDM process and product (15-20…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that dry conditions in the Southeast decreased slightly and the moderate drought in South Florida was cut in half over the last week, but drought and dry conditions in Puerto Rico expanded a bit. It does not look likely that there will be any big changes in…
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Severe drought causes significant impacts for farmers across the world. Here is a story from Yahoo News on the lengthy drought in Turkey and how desperate farmers overusing irrigation are causing sinkholes to develop in their fields as they remove the groundwater. Not so different than the overuse of groundwater in California except that in…
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The heavy rain that fell last weekend in southern Georgia and adjacent areas of AL and SC removed the abnormally dry (D0) conditions in that part of the region. However, the lack of rain in North Carolina expanded the D0 conditions there. Rainfall amounts in the next week should be fairly low in most of…
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