Drought
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I have not traveled to Africa yet, but it is on my bucket list. I saw two articles today describing the extreme drought which is affecting southern Africa. The world-famous Victoria Falls, which lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is down to just a trickle. You can see some pictures and read more…
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November 2019 was 1-3 degrees F colder than normal, a stark contrast to the very warm October. Most areas of the state were drier than normal, but some coastal areas received heavy rain in mid-November, resulting in wetter than normal conditions there. In spite of the dry conditions across most of the state, drought coverage…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that drought continues its slow decline in the Southeast. The only area of severe drought remaining is in northern Georgia east of Atlanta, with moderate drought still present in lower amounts in Alabama, South Carolina and Florida. Puerto Rico is back in moderate drought this week after…
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There is an updated web site for the Drought Risk Atlas from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln which includes links to climate and hydrology data and a map viewer on all things related to drought. You can visit it at https://droughtatlas.unl.edu/.
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows continuing erosion of drought conditions across the Southeast. No big changes but reductions in areal coverage for all categories of drought. Rain today and this weekend should help keep this trend going over the next week.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies) at the University of Colorado-Boulder posted an interesting story earlier this week about how changes in climate, specifically a megadrought, may have contributed to the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC. Assyria was one of the most powerful empires on earth and was…
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This week’s Drought Monitor showed continued improvements in drought conditions across most of the Southeast this week, not a surprise considering the rainy conditions we have seen on and off this past week. Every state saw some improvement, and only a few small areas of worsening conditions were seen, mostly in north central Alabama and…
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