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The United States Drought Monitor is a collection of measures that allows experts to assess droughts in the United States.The monitor is not an agency but a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A map of Ohio's drought conditions. A large portion of southeastern and south-central Ohio is currently in an "extreme drought condition," according to the agency that monitors droughts.
The U.S. Drought Monitor currently classifies just over 66% of the state as being in a severe drought covering most of the Boston area, North shore, Central Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts.
Stats on the now record-setting Fall 2024 drought 48 states have some drought, most in #DroughtMonitor history. 87.2% of the Lower 48 and 73.2% of the US are Abnormally Dry (D0) or in drought ...
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.
Also in drought conditions were Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona. Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western United States. As of June 2021, "nearly the entire region (97 percent) [was] facing abnormally dry conditions." [5] Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico in 2021, as well as the prairies of ...
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.
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 ...