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Missouri generally has a variety of seasonal humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with cool winters and long, hot summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel , the climate borders on a more mild-type humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ), and in the northern third, the state transitions ...
The drought of 2012 narrowed navigation channels, forced lock closures, and caused dozens of barges to run aground on the Mississippi River along the Missouri shoreline. The resulting impact on navigation cost the region more than $275 million. The drought of 2012–2013 also threatened municipal and industrial water users along the Missouri ...
As far as records set for drought or dryness, for the overall drought and abnormally dry conditions, "in October we had 87.16% of the country as abnormally dry or worse, which was a new record ...
The Missouri River was above flood stage for 62 days in Jefferson City, Missouri, 77 days at Hermann, Missouri, and for 94 days at St. Charles in the St. Louis metropolitan area. On October 7, 103 days after the flooding began, the Mississippi River at St. Louis finally dropped below flood stage.
Nearly all of the U.S. is facing drought, with Kentucky becoming the 49th state to enter drought in November, due to a historically dry autumn 49 states are in drought conditions, threatening ...
Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion ...
By autumn 2020, the drought in the Western States was the worst since similar drought conditions seven years earlier. [ 7 ] The 2020–2021 drought was described by some as possibly the worst drought in modern history for the Western U.S. [ 8 ]
It was a year characterized by extreme drought. From North America to Africa to Europe to Asia, huge swaths of the planet were parched in 2022. 2022 was the year of drought