Drought
-
At our special drought webinar this afternoon, over 350 people registered and almost 200 people attended the live webinar. We spent an hour talking about the atmospheric conditions leading up to the drought, the impacts of the drought on agriculture, and the outlook for the next couple of weeks. There was a lot of material…
-
The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a significant expansion of extreme (D3) drought across the Southeast in response to the much-above-normal temperatures and continued dry conditions which are affecting many parts of the Southeast. Extreme drought more than doubled in areal coverage across the Southeast, with expansions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South…
Posted in: Drought -
As the drought increases, the only things left that are green are often weeds. This is a problem in pastures where weeds might be hazardous to livestock. Alabama Extension provides some comments and tips for what to do when the weeds are the only thing growing in your pastures at https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/farming/managing-weeds-crucial-during-droughts/.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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…
-
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.…
Posted in: Drought