Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday, show that an area of severe drought has been added to southeastern Georgia in response to very warm temperatures and lack of rainfall. Moderate drought was introduced to the South Carolina coast as well. Drought was removed from northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia due to copious rain there.
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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows only slight changes in drought across the Southeast this week. Moderate drought was removed from a small portion of central Alabama while it expanded slightly in central Georgia. South Florida saw an expansion in abnormally dry conditions. The rest of the region saw no changes. With some…
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If you’ve been following international news lately, you know that Cape Town, South Africa, is about to run out of water after several years of a devastating drought. They have been undergoing significant water rationing and even so, are expected to run out of water by July 7. This is a huge city and it…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, indicates that drought has diminished across northern and western parts of the Southeast due to continuing rain in those areas. Two areas of abnormally dry conditions were identified in the Florida peninsula due to the lack of rain there. This rainfall pattern is likely to persist for at…
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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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