Drought
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While many of us in the Southeast are struggling with too much water, farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico are dealing with one of the worst droughts in recent years. They are in their third year of drought, and it’s the worst one they have experienced going back to 1986. Groundwater levels are already…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while there is no change in drought from last week, the area of abnormally dry conditions have expanded significantly in Florida over the last week due to the very light precipitation they have received. There was also a slight increase in southern Alabama, which also missed…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions expanded in southern Alabama and in southern Florida this week in response to a lack of rain in those areas. The small area of severe (D2) drought in the Florida panhandle remains unchanged from last week. With the current pattern keeping the…
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Last month I attended a workshop on the US Drought Monitor and presented a talk on recent flash droughts in the Southeast. There were a variety of different talks relating to drought in our region and how the impacts are not always caught in the Drought Monitor because of how it is put together. All…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows small improvements in dry conditions in the Florida Panhandle and the removal of abnormally dry conditions altogether from Georgia and an expansion of abnormally dry conditions in central Florida, which has largely been missed by rain. With little rain expected there in the next week, we could see…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that while drought was removed from Georgia and was reduced in Florida, the area of abnormally dry conditions in Florida expanded quite a bit. That region has been missed by most of the recent rains, leading to the degradation in soil moisture there. No relief for…
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Here is a cute 6-minute video which explains how drought is assessed in the US by the Drought Monitor. It’s produced by our CoCoRaHS friends, who also have a lot of handy videos on how to measure precipitation. It includes a discussion of what the different drought classifications mean and how the Drought Monitor is…