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The amount of Massachusetts in a severe drought doubled for the second consecutive week. As of Nov. 12, just over 67% of the state is a severe drought, compared to 31% on Nov. 5 and 13% on Oct. 29 ...
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.
Stats on the now record-setting Fall 2024 drought 48 states have some drought, most in #DroughtMonitor history. 87.2% of the Lower 48 and 73.2% of the US are Abnormally Dry (D0) or in drought ...
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that about half of North Carolina is in moderate to severe drought, with only parts or all of about a dozen of 100 counties having received normal rainfall for the year.
Following a milder drought in the Southeastern United States the year before, this drought spread from the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Northern Great Plains and Western United States. This drought was widespread, unusually intense and accompanied by heat waves which killed around 4,800 to 17,000 people across the United States and also ...
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 lack of rainfall led the US Drought Monitor to label the majority of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties as abnormally dry in its Nov. 27 report. About 80% of Palm Beach County is ...
Here's more on the conditions states in the region are facing: For Pennsylvania, 22% of the state is now under a SEVERE drought with 4% in EXTREME drought. Philadelphia had its last measurable ...