Drought
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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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The lack of much snow and rain this winter has set up the western US for another year of serious drought. Reservoirs are at very low levels, forcing water managers to make tough decisions about who gets water and who does not, since there is not enough to meet everyone’s needs. This article from the…
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This is the time of year that abnormally dry conditions can really start to affect agricultural production. This is true for both planting (seeds need moisture to germinate) and crop development. The Drought Monitor does not always do a good job of capturing the changing conditions as rapidly as we might like. In the past…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a big expansion in abnormally dry conditions (D0) in Georgia and South Carolina, with smaller increases in Alabama and North Carolina. The moderate (D1) drought in South Florida decreased slightly and dry conditions were reduced there due to the rain along the stalled front in northern FL…
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While we pay attention to drought here in the US, it is also occurring in other places. One of the worst hit countries this year has been Taiwan, where some reservoirs hold only 7 percent of their usual capacity due to lack of rain from typhoons and the typical rainy season. This has caused the…