Drought

  • Drought in England has led to extremely low reservoir levels and concerns about whether they are likely to rise enough to support fruit and vegetable farming next year, according to a recent story in The Guardian. Farmers are considering their crop rotations for next year with an eye to reduced availability of water, and some…

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  • According to a recent story from the National Weather Service, the waning El Nino has provided a lot of drought relief to the nation over the course of the winter, including parts of the Southeast. While many parts of the country benefited from the rain, drought expanded in the High Plains, especially Montana, North Dakota,…

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  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry conditions were reduced in Puerto Rico and Alabama and are gone in South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, but expanded slightly in eastern North Carolina due to lack of rain and warm temperatures there. Since there will be quite a bit of rain across the…

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  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows more improvements in drought and abnormally dry conditions in eastern North Carolina and north and south Alabama today due to recent rains. Puerto Rico also experienced a reduction in the area of abnormally dry conditions although their moderate (D1) drought area did not change. Most rain in…

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  • Now here’s a story you don’t see every day. According to this CBS Colorado report, “Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought conditions.  By preventing the rain gauges from accurately…

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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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