Drought
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If you follow the weekly Drought Monitor, you know that drought is not equally spread across the entire US. Here’s an interesting article by Dr. Becky Bolinger, the Colorado Assistant State Climatologist, about how uneven drought has been across the country since the Drought Monitor started making maps in 2000. The winner in the Southeast:…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that there were only slight changes to the drought in the Southeast this week. Some states slightly increased their areal coverage while others decreased, but overall the changes were very small. Based on the current rainfall forecasts, I expect that there may be some slight improvements in…
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The latest outlook for August 2019 was released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, and they show that for the next month the region leans towards warmer than normal conditions. Precipitation is listed as having equal chances of above, below or near normal, but if you look at the breakdown by weeks at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov, most…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that most states in the region experienced slight increases in moderate drought over the last week due to low rainfall amounts. The only exception was Florida, which saw a slight decrease. Most areas of the Southeast should experience an inch or more of rain this week so…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows only small changes to the drought across the Southeast this week. The biggest change is a slight expansion of severe drought in Alabama, while the D2 drought is almost entirely gone from Georgia now. Most of the region will be fairly dry in the next week except…
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Drought affects trees on many different time scales. In the Southeast, we grow a lot of trees in controlled conditions for timber. The timber is managed by planting, thinning, and harvesting. Until recently, there have been very few studies done on the impacts of management techniques like thinning on the trees’ resilience to drought and…
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The latest monthly and seasonal outlooks for the US were released earlier this week. They show that for both August and the August through October period, temperature likelihood leans towards warmer than normal conditions, but precipitation shows equal chances of near, below and above normal. The remaining drought in the Southeast is expected to be…