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A map showing the drought in Eastern Canada. The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave. Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from ...
The 2020–2022 droughts were also affecting Michigan, southern Wisconsin, most of North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In northeastern Illinois near the Chicago metropolitan area, May 2021 was the driest since 2012. As of June 1, 2021, Chicago had only received barely half of one inch of rainfall due to drought in the area.
The U.S. Drought Monitor provides a national database to track the duration and severity of droughts in the United States. It is hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Known for its glowing swaths of yellow, orange and red, the U.S. Drought Monitor has warned farmers, residents and officials throughout the nation of impending water scarcity every week since 1999
NIDIS is a prototype for information services, in support of preparing for and adapting to climate variation and change. In late 2007, NIDIS launched the U.S. Drought Portal, or drought.gov, a website that pulls together many federal, state, and academic resources for monitoring drought. [9] [10] In January 2021, NIDIS worked with NOAA's ...
The flash drought, as seen in versions of the U.S. Drought Monitor from June 4 and July 9, a span of just five weeks. An area of high pressure parked itself over the Southeast and mid-Atlantic ...
In a single week, extreme drought conditions that had gripped nearly one-third of California have been downgraded nearly everywhere. California storms erase extreme drought from nearly all of ...
The Palmer drought index, sometimes called the Palmer drought severity index ( PDSI ), is a regional drought index commonly used for monitoring drought events and studying areal extent and severity of drought episodes. [ 1] The index uses precipitation and temperature data to study moisture supply and demand using a simple water balance model ...