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As Mexico entered peak fire season in March 2024, dry and warm conditions helped fuel the flames of more than 100 active blazes across the country.
A pair of storms will bring much-needed rain from the Gulf Coast to near the Interstate 40 corridor of the south-central and southeastern United States into this weekend, but one of the storms ...
Using Landsat satellite data, researchers can determine that Mexico's current drought is more widespread than its last one in 2011 because it affected two regions, the north and south-central.
This visualization shows how the drought developed in the U.S. in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Dried up lake in Oklahoma as a result of the droughts. The 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought was a severe to extreme drought that plagued the Southern United States, including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and ...
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.
Almost 100% of New Mexico was under some form of drought conditions, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help.
A drought developed in the Western, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. [3] Similar conditions started in other states in August 2020, including Iowa, Nebraska and certain parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. At the same time, more than 90% of Utah, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico were in some level of drought. [4]
By Dec. 20, about 74% of the contiguous U.S. was abnormally dry or in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. While not ideal, the percentage is down from 85.3% during the week of Nov. 1 ...