Drought
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After a week of significant rain, dry conditions in the Southeast have been significantly reduced, now covering just over half the region. Severe (D2) drought has been eliminated from the area. Over the short term, additional reductions in drought are likely due to additional rainfall, although warmer than normal temperatures will also increase evaporation. The…
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The National Drought Mitigation Center has posted their monthly drought summary for the entire US online. You can read it at https://drought.unl.edu/NewsOutreach/MonthlySummary/January2018DroughtandImpactSummary.aspx.
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The latest issue of the Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that dry conditions decreased slightly across the region in the past week, and areas of drought were shrunk or removed in many states. The area of extreme drought that was placed in Alabama has been removed and other areas of severe drought were reduced.…
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The recent expansion of drought across parts of the US has caused livestock producers some concern that we are going back into a period similar to 2011 and 2012, where large extents of drought in the central US forced many livestock producers to liquidate their herds. This is discussed in this recent video and article…
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AgWeb ran a short article last week describing the drought across the United States, which has expanded in recent weeks, including an expansion in the Southeast. Fortunately for us, the rain this weekend helped put a dent in dry conditions and that may result in some decrease of drought in our region on the next…
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Right now we are in the middle of the second winter of a “double-dip” La Niña. That means that for two winters in a row we have been in La Niña, with neutral conditions in between but no El Niño. This is not that unusual, and we have had several since the 1950s when modern…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that extreme drought (D3) was introduced to central Alabama this week. Generally drought was reduced or removed from the Carolinas and Virginia while it expanded and got stronger in Alabama and Georgia. One area that is getting worse is northwest Georgia, now at severe (D2) drought levels,…
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