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"The Drought Monitor was never intended to be a climate change indicator — it was meant to be a real-time assessment of drought conditions," said Mark Svoboda, director of the National Drought ...
The latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows about 17% of California now ranks as abnormally dry, ... Pugh, of the Climate Prediction Center, said he's still expecting La Niña to begin ...
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.
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 Palmer drought index, sometimes called the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI), is a regional drought index commonly used for monitoring drought events and studying areal extent and severity of drought episodes. [1] The index uses precipitation and temperature data to study moisture supply and demand using a simple water balance model.
The latest forecast from the Climate Prediction Center – issued Thursday – shows many of the hallmarks of typical La Niña winters and is consistent with the center’s earlier forecasts. But ...
Climate Prediction Center monitors and forecasts short-term climate fluctuations and provides information on the effects climate patterns can have on the nation. Environmental Modeling Center develops and improves numerical weather, climate, hydrological and ocean prediction through a broad program in partnership with the research community.
La Niña is a cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures west of equatorial South America, and that trend is developing gradually, the Climate Prediction Center said in an Oct. 10 statement.