Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that Tropical Storm Ophelia brought welcome rain to eastern North Carolina and Virginia, relieving some of the dry conditions there. However, the lack of rain in most of the rest of the region led to increases in abnormally dry (D0) and moderate drought (D1) in Alabama, Georgia, Florida,…
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Drought.gov has a good overview of drought conditions across the United States this year at https://www.drought.gov/news/summer-2023-review-look-back-drought-across-us-10-maps-2023-09-21. While we did not have much drought in the Southeast, it is interesting to see how it developed in other parts of the country and what evaporative stresses there were on parts of the Southeast, especially in Florida where…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area covered by drought increased in Alabama, Florida, and Virginia but had only slight changes in the other states of the Southeast this past week. Dry conditions since then may result in further increases in dryness in next week’s map except in areas that could be…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that extreme (D3) drought has appeared in South Alabama as well as expanded slightly in Florida. A small area of moderate (D1) drought has also appeared in southwest Georgia. Since most rain in the next few days will be confined mostly to Florida, the area of drought in…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that areas of Florida, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas saw reductions in dry conditions are drought along the path of Hurricane Idalia but Virginia, which did not get any rain from Idalia, reported an increase in severe (D2) drought and dry conditions this week. Puerto Rico’s drought status…
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The Drought Monitor released yesterday showed slight increases in abnormally dry conditions and drought in the Southeast, but we can expect to see some significant changes in next week’s map, which includes the heavy rainfall from Hurricane Idalia that occurred across Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas after the cut-off for this week’s map on Tuesday.…
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Much of the Southeast has been under the influence of a large dome of high pressure that has brought very hot and dry weather to most of the region. This has resulted in increases in abnormally dry (D0) and moderate drought (D1) in most of the region. A large area of moderate drought has been…
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