Drought

  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a significant decrease in drought over the last week, with many areas in southern Alabama and Georgia and Florida changing to a less severe category, and some drought disappearing. Severe drought remains in southern Florida but has been eliminated elsewhere. Note that this map only includes rain…

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  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows small increases in severe (D2) drought in the Florida peninsula and at the southwestern corner of Alabama. Because of the rain happening today, we may see some improvements in the northern end of the dry area, although parts of Florida may not see any relief.

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  • A new study published in Science recently combined tree ring measurements and model output for the US West to show that the recent string of 18 years of drought were the worst experienced in the region since at least the 1500s and the second driest since the 800s. The scientists attribute about half the dryness…

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  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while abnormally dry conditions were whittled away in Georgia and Alabama, the area of severe (D2) drought in Florida expanded to cover over 20 percent of the state (and a very small area of AL south of Mobile), and moderate drought (D1) increased due to very…

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  • Flash droughts like the ones that have afflicted Georgia and the Southeast in 2016 and 2019 come on so rapidly that producers have a hard time reacting to them. Predicting them can be even harder. But flash droughts, which are typically short-term water deficits caused by very little rainfall and high temperatures and affect primarily…

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  • According to the latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, a small area of moderate (D1) drought has been introduced to southern Charlton County in Georgia. Drought has also expanded in Florida and Alabama. Over 83 percent of Florida is now in drought, and the area of severe (D2) drought has also expanded there. Because of…

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  • I received this notice about four virtual listening sessions on the new proposed Drought Dashboard for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Drought Early Warning System and want to pass it along to you. They were originally intended to be held in person, but because of the pandemic have been moved to online discussions. I encourage you to…

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