Drought
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Southeast Drought Update Webinar Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT —————————————————————————————————————————————- Drought has developed rapidly in the Southeast. Record-breaking late summer and early fall heat and persistent dryness have led to a sharp increase in drought intensity and coverage across the region. This Drought Update Webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of…
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The National Drought Mitigation Center has published a new listing of fact sheets that describe a variety of USDA’s drought recovery resources. You can read about it at https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/News.aspx?id=353 or go directly to the brochure at https://drought.unl.edu/archive/documents/NDMC/Flyers/USDA-USDM-2pager.pdf.
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A flash drought is a severe drought which comes on suddenly, usually through the combination of a near total lack of rainfall and much warmer than normal temperatures. We are seeing a flash drought in the Southeast now, and conditions are rapidly worsening because of the July-like weather. Flash droughts are hard to predict and…
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an expansion of drought conditions across the Southeast, including the addition of a number of scattered areas of extreme (D3) drought in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Drought expanded in all of the Southeastern states and Alabama and Georgia are now 100% covered by abnormally dry conditions or worse.…
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If you are interested in getting an update on the current flash drought in the Southeast, please join us on Tuesday at 1 pm EDT for this special webinar. It will focus on the ACF river basin but will include information about the entire Southeast. Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Drought Assessment Webinar Tuesday, October 1, 2019…
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If you have ever wondered about who makes the weekly Drought Monitor map and how it started, you may be interested in reading this story below on the history of the DM. Here is the first drought map put out by the DM in January 2000 and today’s map. ——————————————————————————————————————- The process of creating…
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It is no surprise to anyone who needs rain that drought is expanding across the Southeast, and the latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that expansion in a big way. For the region as a whole, almost 39 percent is now classified as moderate drought (D1) or worse. Virginia jumped from 5 to 53…
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