Drought
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there have been improvements across the region. While a lot of the region is already out of drought due to earlier rain events, this past week additional rain has improved conditions in eastern NC, SC, and northern AL, and in Puerto Rico, too. This weekend…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the sliver of moderate drought near Tampa has disappeared, but a new area of moderate (D1) drought has been introduced to eastern North Carolina, where conditions have slowly deteriorated over the last few weeks due to lack of rain and warm temperatures. Abnormally dry conditions expanded…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions have been added back to eastern sections of North Carolina this week due to lack of rain and warm temperatures. The rest of the region, including Puerto Rico, did not see any changes this week. The only area still in drought is a…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier today, shows that nearly all drought has been removed from the Southeast. There is still a small area of moderate (D1) drought near Tampa, but only a few patches of abnormally dry (D0) conditions remain over most of the area due to the recent rain. Drought was also reduced…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released today, shows that the areal coverage and severity of drought across the region continues to decrease due to continuing recent rains. Drought in Puerto Rico also improved slightly due to heavier rainfall there. Since more rain is forecast in the next week, we can expect to see additional improvements…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that all areas of drought have been improved by one category. This resulted in the removal of all extreme (D3) drought from the region. Rain in the southern half of the region should continue to improve things there, although North Carolina and Virginia will see little rain…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows only slight improvements in the drought this week. Since the cutoff was Tuesday morning and a lot more rain has fallen since then, we can expect to see further improvements in next week’s map. By contrast, Puerto Rico’s moderate drought has expanded and now covers over half…
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