Drought
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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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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…