Drought
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After another week with below-normal rain, the National Drought Monitor has introduced severe (D2) drought to parts of Georgia and Florida along with a tiny corner of Alabama. Moderate drought has also expanded as well as abnormally dry conditions, so now over 3/4 of the region is covered by dry conditions. The only exceptions are…
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Outside magazine had an interesting article about the snow drought in the West. In spite of recent rains that have caused fatal mudslides in parts of California, the mountains out west overall have received only 29% of their normal snowfall. This could bode poorly for water supplies in spring and into next summer, when irrigators…
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The National Centers for Environment Information has a new series of articles describing the value of some of the products that they put out. Here is a recent one on the value of the Drought Monitor. You can read it here.
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Here’s a really interesting story by Brad Haire of Southeast Farm Press on some farmers’ work to turn a pine forest into a productive cotton field. The climate plays a factor in the story as they were aided (and sometimes impacted) by the dry conditions caused by the 2016 drought across the Southeast. You can…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows another expansion of moderate drought in the Southeast over the past week. Even though it is cold, drought can continue to get worse if little precipitation is received. I’ve heard some comments that the Drought Monitor is underestimating how much drought there is, so if you are…
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Weather Underground posted a story today discussing the likelihood of increased drought in the US due to the presence of La Niña in the eastern Pacific Ocean this winter. In the Southeast, La Niña is known as a precursor that we look for when considering the possibility of drought in the region, but it can…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a slight increase in the amount of moderate drought in the Southeast from last week due to low levels of precipitation. Since next week should also be fairly dry, I don’t foresee a decrease in drought in the coming week, although the rain we’ve had in the…
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