Drought
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While we’ve been dry here in the Southeast, other parts of the world are experiencing even worse heat waves and droughts. One of these places is India, where the heat has been rising to record-setting levels. This is resulting in a decline in the production of wheat, a staple crop there. You can read more…
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The combination of almost no rain and very warm temperatures has resulted in a big increase in abnormally dry conditions across the region. In a few areas, the drought status increased by two categories, which rarely happens. The only place that did not change or improved slightly was central Florida. Another week of dry and…
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The heavy rain that fell across southern Florida this past week led to the end of drought conditions across that area, in some cases improving conditions by three categories. The rest of the region received little rain and a lot of heat and there was a significant expansion of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that the high temperatures combined with limited rainfall in most areas led to an increase in abnormally dry (D0) and drought conditions in parts of the region this past week. A large area of abnormally dry conditions formed in Virginia with smaller increases in other states…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released last Thursday, shows that a few small patches of abnormally dry (D0) conditions have developed across the northern states in our region. A reduction in D0 conditions occurred in central Alabama. But the real drought story this week is the big expansion of severe drought in the southern Florida Peninsula…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday, shows that the only state in the Southeast that has drought is Florida, although a few patches of abnormally dry conditions (D0) are found in Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Virginia. The total area of dry conditions in central Florida has not changed much but a section…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows an increase in moderate drought in central and southern Florida this week due to continued lack of rain and very hot temperatures. Dry conditions also expanded in central Alabama. In North Carolina and Virginia, dry conditions improved but were not quite eliminated this week. Puerto Rico continues to…
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