Drought
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This week’s spotty rain was enough to improve abnormally dry conditions in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, while leaving the other states unchanged. The spots of drought remain in those areas, however. We probably won’t see a change in next week’s map, since most of the rain in the next 5 days will be in…
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Are you frustrated that the Drought Monitor is not accurately reflecting dry conditions in your area? It may be that they do not have any data there other than radar-based rainfall. Reports from “on the ground” can be invaluable for drawing the correct drought lines. Here is a new mobile-friendly site for reporting drought conditions…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the overall coverage of dry conditions and drought in the Southeast has changed little from last week. However, there have been some shifts in where the driest areas are. While improvements were seen in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, dry areas expanded in Alabama and…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while areas of moderate (D1) and severe (D2) drought expanded only slightly across the region this week, a much larger area of abnormally dry conditions (D0) is now present across the Southeast, including Virginia. This is due to the relatively light rainfall coupled with the much…
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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…