Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor shows that drought across the region was reduced. Severe drought is now completely gone from South Carolina and reduced in Georgia and Florida. Rain amounts in the next week are expected to be relatively light, so no big changes are expected to next week’s map. The most likely beneficiary of rain…
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The latest outlook maps from the Climate Prediction Center show an increased chance of above normal temperatures across the country in May. Precipitation in the Southeast shows a tendency towards drier than normal conditions in the Tennessee River Valley, which is consistent with recent research showing the highest likelihood of dry conditions in that region…
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Heavy rainfall over the last week has put a significant dent in severe drought conditions in Georgia and South Carolina, reducing it by half. Other categories of drought and dry conditions were also reduced in those states. No change was seen in North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. Southern Florida missed the rain and severe drought…
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I’ve previously posted about the exceptional drought which is currently threatening Cape Town, South Africa. Drought has also been a threat to the Southeast, especially the 2007 drought which caused concern that Atlanta and Athens in Georgia might run out of water. Here is an interesting story from Business Insider discussing how Israel has dealt…
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Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1/300). This is worse than our D4 drought in Oklahoma and nearby…
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The latest set of outlook maps for May 2018 and beyond are now available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. They show that May leans towards warmer and wetter than normal for all of the Southeast, with the strongest signal in southern Florida. Warmer than normal conditions are also more likely for the May through July…
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The line of storms that moved across the Southeast this past week has put a dent in drought in most parts of the Southeast. Reductions in moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions were seen in every state, and only a few small areas of South Carolina and Florida increased from moderate to severe drought. Very…
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