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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.
In November, Kentucky became the 49th state to cross into drought conditions, leaving only one state – Alaska – drought-free during the week ending November 19, according to data from the U.S ...
In late 2007, NIDIS launched the U.S. Drought Portal, or drought.gov, a website that pulls together many federal, state, and academic resources for monitoring drought. [9] [10] In January 2021, NIDIS worked with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information to launch a completed redesigned U.S. Drought Portal. The new website features ...
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]
The U.S. drought monitor has four levels of drought - moderate, severe, extreme, exceptional. They release their findings every Thursday as an update on what the country is facing in terms of ...
The U.S. Drought Monitor shouldn't be the be-all and end-all for decision-making, and should continue be paired with reservoir observations, snow surveys and other measurements to form a complete ...
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 ...
It's been a summer full of extreme heat and prolonged drought in Texas and much of Oklahoma, but a needed change in the weather pattern is on the way as temperatures are forecast to throttle back ...