Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows improvements across the region due to rainfall from a stalled front as well as the initial rainfall ahead of Hurricane Debby. Further improvements are expected in next week’s map, especially in the northern half, which will incorporate the Debby rainfall that occurred after the Tuesday cutoff. There are…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released today, shows that a lot of the region saw improvement in drought conditions due to the rainy conditions that occurred over much of the area. There are still a few areas of extreme drought where rain was more limited. More improvements are likely next week as we continue to…
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This week’s Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows widespread improvements in drought across the region with just a few small areas that were missed by rain and got deeper into drought. The Drought Monitor’s Change Map make it easy to see where the changes are. This does not even include the rain that fell since…
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The latest seasonal outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center indicates that the August and August through October periods are likely to be hotter and wetter than normal for most of the region. Wet conditions are especially likely in Florida and along the coasts where they may be hit by tropical storms as activity in the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought generally increased in western and inland parts of the region but improved in the Florida Peninsula as well as eastern North Carolina and Virginia, where timely rain fell. The next week is likely to be wetter, with scattered rain showers and storms through out most of…
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The folks at NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) have put together a summary of the drought conditions across the Southeast at https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/drought-status-update-southeast-2024-07-15. You can read it to see the current status of different drought parameters like precipitation as well as a description of impacts that the drought is causing.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that rain in Florida and in eastern Georgia improved drought conditions there. However, the lack of rain in northern Alabama, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia caused some degradation of drought conditions there. On the latest map, over 50% of the region is covered by drought, and 83% is…
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