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New York City had issued a drought watch on November 2, ... but it doesn’t mean that the drought is over since the city has had a rain deficit of 8.25 inches for the last three months. ...
About 77% of the mainland U.S. is abnormally dry, and almost half of the country is experiencing drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The spatial pattern of the dry conditions varies ...
The city has been in drought for two years – within Stage 1 conditions between June 2022 and February 2024, and Stage 2 drought from March to the present. More: Tropical Storm Alberto is over ...
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 ... By the early 1980s, over 150 definitions of "drought" had already been published. [19]
Temperatures above the historical average have exacerbated the drought. Despite some frosty mornings over the interior Northeast, the dryness of both the air and the ground has led to warm afternoons.
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 drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.
The city of Corpus Christi entered Stage 2 drought Thursday morning, as lake levels dropped to their lowest since 2015.