Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor
The Drought Monitor summary map identifies general areas of drought and labels them by intensity. D1 is the least intense level and D4 the most intense. Drought is defined as a moisture deficit bad enough to have social, environmental or economic effects.
Summer 2023 in Review: A Look Back at Drought Across the U.S.
Sep 21, 2023 · Drought in the United States expanded and intensified in Summer 2023, largely influenced by not only lack of precipitation, but extreme heat and evaporative demand.
The drought in California this summer was the worst on record
Oct 14, 2021 · In California, drought conditions this summer were the most extreme in the entire 126-year record – a clear sign of the role climate change plays in the perilous decline of the state’s water ...
U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook
The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center's Seasonal (3-Month) Drought Outlook is issued on the third Thursday of each month. The outlook predicts whether drought will persist, develop, improve, or be removed over the next three months or so.
Droughts and Climate Change | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
Understand how climate change contributes to modern droughts. Explore the effects of droughts on plants, animals, ecosystems, and communities. Help develop water management strategies under drought conditions. Develop tools to assess the …
National Drought Status
Oct 31, 2024 · The U.S. Drought Monitor is updated each Thursday to show the location and intensity of drought across the country, which uses a five-category system, from Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions to Exceptional Drought (D4).
Climate Prediction Center: Seasonal Drought Outlook
Nov 1, 2024 · The updated Seasonal Drought Outlook (SDO), valid November 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025, includes a larger area of removal and improvement across eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, the Ozarks region, and Midwest than the SDO released on October 17.
August 2022 Drought Report | National Centers for Environmental ...
Looking across summer (June-August), dryness and drought exhibited rapid onset and rapid recovery. Dry conditions affected just 9 percent of the Midwest to start summer, and conditions peaked weeks later with 50 percent of the region affected.
July 2021 Drought Report | National Centers for Environmental ...
Nov 8, 2024 · The summer monsoon began in earnest around the middle of the month and dropped above-normal precipitation across much of the Southwest. Meanwhile, the western ridge kept most of the West Coast, Pacific Northwest, northern Rockies, and northern to central Plains drier than normal.
Northern Hemisphere’s extreme summer drought ‘virtually …
Oct 5, 2022 · Drought across the Northern Hemisphere this summer — which scorched soil, dried up rivers and triggered mass crop failure — was made at least 20 times more likely by the climate crisis, a new...