Drought
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina noted this week that “the map on the front page of the NC Drought Management Advisory Council (DMAC) website, which serves as the official drought designation for North Carolina, is different than the weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) map.” This happens from time to time when the assessment…
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All categories of drought showed a slight expansion in the latest Drought Monitor map. Particularly worrisome is the re-expansion of severe drought in northern Georgia and back into the western Carolinas. Warm conditions and an early start to the growing season has taken moisture out of the soil and increased evaporation and evapotranspiration, which has…
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The WunderBlog has an excellent retrospective of the last several years of the drought in California and how the last very wet season has knocked out the drought in a lot of the state. But they do note that even with all of the rain, it will take a long time for the aquifers to…
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People have been asking me if this is a record-setting winter for temperature. Using the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool at https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true, you can look at maps which show the rankings for the month or season to date. With just a couple of days left to go in the season, the maps show that while…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows the reintroduction of extreme drought into west-central Alabama and the expansion of moderate drought in Virginia, the western Carolinas, and northwest Alabama. Florida’s dry conditions remain unchanged, although rain since the cut-off date of Tuesday may improve things next week.
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A recent study on droughts in the Middle East shows that the recent droughts that have plagued the area are the worst in at least 1100 years, according to a story this week in the American Geophysical Union blog. The scientists in the study collected a stalagmite from a cave in Iraq which contained growth…
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A new handbook which describes the different types of drought indicators is now available from the World Meteorological Organization. It is available in several languages and also online. You can access it at https://www.droughtmanagement.info/handbook-drought-indicators-and-indices/.