Drought
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The Southeast Farm Press had an interesting story this week about the South Carolina Water Resources Summit meeting held recently at Clemson University. In the story it describes the recent climate patterns in SC, including the lurch from floods in October 2015 to drought in 2016 followed by another 1000 year flood when Matthew moved…
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The rain in parts of the Southeast experienced in the last week put a significant dent in drought conditions in Virginia, South Carolina, and especially North Carolina in this week’s Drought Monitor. Southeast Florida also had their dry conditions wiped away by recent rains there. The extreme drought in northeast Georgia was also whittled away.…
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The WunderBlog posted an article a few days ago describing how bad the drought in Florida has become due to the combination of unusually warm temperatures and below-normal rainfall. Even though this is generally a dry time of year for Florida, it has been dry even by their standards, and the Drought Monitor has been…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows an expansion of drought and abnormally dry conditions in a good chunk of the Southeast from last week. In Alabama and Georgia moderate drought has increased and some severe drought has been added to southern Georgia in places where little rain has been received on top of…
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With the return of drought conditions to parts of the Southeast, the number of wildfires is on the rise, especially in Florida. The fires are particularly bad in the southern part of the Florida peninsula where the drought is growing, but the fires are being seen in other parts of Florida as well as some…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows that while drought has reduced slightly in northern areas of the Southeast, moderate drought has been introduced to some coastal areas of Georgia and severe drought has expanded in Florida. The heavy rain that was received in last week’s strong storms covered most of the region but weakened significantly before…
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows that beneficial rain reduced drought in northern Florida and parts of southern Alabama, but that severe drought expanded in western North Carolina and southern Florida while it was whittled away in Alabama and Georgia. Next week’s map will probably show more reductions in drought due to the wet system that…
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