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Parts of every state in the Plains and Midwest regions are suffering drought conditions, with some swaths of land afflicted with severe and extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor ...
This visualization shows how the drought developed in the U.S. in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Dried up lake in Oklahoma as a result of the droughts. The 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought was a severe to extreme drought that plagued the Southern United States, including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and ...
Drought conditions have gripped nearly the entire country, with only one state spared as a bone-dry autumn left most states parched. In November, Kentucky became the 49th state to cross into ...
Percent Area in U.S. Drought Monitor Categories since year 2000. A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The United States' contiguous western and especially southwestern region has experienced widespread drought since about year 2000.
A dangerous mix of heat, high winds and drought culminated in dozens of wildfires in Oklahoma this week. A massive wildfire in the Texas Panhandle that sparked Monday blew into Oklahoma on Tuesday ...
The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave.Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from the southern United States, wreaking havoc on crops and water supply. [1]
Parts of every state in the Plains and Midwest regions are suffering drought conditions, with some swaths of land afflicted with severe and extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The 2012 Oklahoma wildfires were a series of wildfires which impacted areas throughout the state of Oklahoma. Starting earlier in the year, a widespread drought caused many areas to be exposed to wildfires. [4] [5] Starting in late July and early August, the wildfires burned at least 52,000 acres, [2] and destroyed at least 121 homes and ...