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The latest Drought Monitor map, released this morning, shows that a lot of the drought that was in the Southeast last week has been reduced or removed by the rain from Hurricane Michael which occurred last week after the DM was finalized. There are still a few small patches of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a slight increase in moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions across the Southeast in the past week. However, the cutoff date for the map was last Tuesday, before Michael came onshore, so I expect to see significant reductions in dry conditions in…
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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows that moderate drought has expanded in southern South Carolina and in parts of Georgia. Georgia is now almost 50% covered by abnormally dry conditions or drought due to the warm and dry conditions we have experienced in the last week. An area…
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Earlier this summer I pointed out the extremely dry conditions that have been occurring in Europe. This drought has continued and now as the harvest approaches there, farmers are feeling the pinch with poor crop yields, especially in wheat. You can read more about the impact of the drought on…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that a small area of moderate drought has been introduced to the southern tip of South Carolina, which largely missed the rain from Hurricane Florence. Moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions expanded in central Georgia. Moderate drought decreased slightly in Alabama but…
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Scientific American recently published an article about a new study that looked at how different forests around the world handle drought. What they found was that forests that have a large variety of different tree species were more resilient in a drought than forests with few different types of trees….
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The heavy rainfall from Hurricane Florence terminated the drought that has recently entered the central Carolinas for good, but lack of rainfall in other parts of the Southeast allowed drought to expand in northern Alabama and moderate drought to enter central Georgia. Alabama may get some relief this week but…
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