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European Commission map of drought conditions across South America from February 2023 to January 2024.. The 2023–2024 South American drought refers to an ongoing drought across several states of Brazil in addition to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, which has led to several significant impacts including record low water levels, significant water shortages, sweeping crop failures, and widespread ...
Scientists said that this increased the drought risk for other regions of England. [12] It was the wettest March in over 40 years for England and Wales. [13] According to South West Water, Devon and Cornwall are experiencing the driest conditions in nearly 90 years. [14] From 25 April 2023, South West Water extended a hosepipe ban to parts of ...
[15] [16] In mid-January 2023, weather forecasts regarding the probable occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon in 2023 and 2024 were published in various media. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Given that Earth's average temperature has already increased by 1.2 °C since pre-industrial times, a large enough El Niño event in 2023-2024 could even push the ...
Using global meteorological data from between 1980 and 2018, researchers in Austria and Switzerland generated the “first” global high-res picture of megadroughts and their impact on vegetation.
The monitor does provide an accurate and reliable snapshot of what's happening in the climate system at a given moment, including a mixture of global warming and La Niña conditions that ...
Here's more on the conditions states in the region are facing: For Pennsylvania, 22% of the state is now under a SEVERE drought with 4% in EXTREME drought. Philadelphia had its last measurable ...
The new website features updated content and new interactive architecture designed to provide actionable, shareable information and easy-to-understand graphics describing current drought conditions and forecasts by city, county, state, zip code, and at watershed to global scales. The U.S. Drought Portal also aggregates and presents drought ...
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that about half of North Carolina is in moderate to severe drought, with only parts or all of about a dozen of 100 counties having received normal rainfall for the year.