Drought
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According to a recent story on USAgNet, “Dramatic human-caused changes in land cover between 1850 and the 1930s had a substantive effect on the 1930s Dust Bowl drought in the Great Plains, a new study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers finds.” Ocean temperatures are part of the story of what caused the Dust Bowl, but…
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Back in the spring of 2016, the developing drought in northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama caused livestock producers there to seek hay from places as far away as Missouri. Fortunately, that area’s drought is now a distant memory, but drought has now formed in Missouri, causing problems for producers there. This article from Drovers Newsletter…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the two patches of abnormally dry conditions left in Alabama have shrunk to just 1.24% of the region’s area. With wet conditions expected in the next week, the southern patch near Mobile will probably be gone by next week’s map, although the northern one may continue…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that abnormally dry conditions continue to shrink in the region. The latest map shows that the only state with any remnant abnormally dry conditions is Alabama. With normal rain expected in the next week, those two last areas may also be phased out in next week’s…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the heavy rains we have experienced across the Southeast this week from both Subtropical Storm Alberto and other rain storms has eliminated all drought from the Southeast and has reduced abnormally dry conditions to just a few small, scattered pockets. Since some of the rain fell…
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Widespread heavy rains across the Southeast with up to ten inches in a few isolated locations have put a major dent in drought conditions across the region. Many places had drought and abnormally dry conditions completely removed. Others saw the areal coverage of drought reduced by up to two categories. Now there are only a…
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The EcoWatch newsletter posted a story this week about the impacts of the exceptional drought in the Southwestern US on water supplies in the Colorado River basin. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir on the river, has not been at full pool since 1983, but in recent years has been much lower. When reservoir levels get…