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The City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said rain is a good start to reduce fire risk, but it doesn’t mean that the drought is over since the city has had a ...
The historic drought that for weeks has showered a swath of the nation ... come with strict criteria − relative humidity of 15% or less and wind gusts of 25 mph or more for three hours over a 12 ...
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 ...
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.
Drought and heat-stricken corn is seen on a farm in Illinois before it is chopped down for feed Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Farmers in the mid-Atlantic are facing similar conditions this summer.
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.
In the wake of a biblical blizzard that unloaded nearly 100 inches of snow on California, AccuWeather is making a major announcement: California will be free of widespread drought through at least ...
The mayor first issued a drought watch on Nov. 2 after the historic lack of rain, ordering city agencies to update water conservation plans. The last drought warning in New York City was issued in ...