Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor
WEBWhile West Virginia’s drought has lasted for months, short-term dryness has begun to affect parts of New England, leading to development or expansion of abnormal dryness (D0) from eastern Massachusetts into Maine. Measurable rain last fell in Boston on August 20.
U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for September 17, 2024
WEBSep 19, 2024 — The most recent U.S. Drought Outlook is available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agriculture Outlook Board also provides information about the drought’s influence on crops and livestock. For additional drought information, follow #DroughtMonitor on Facebook and X.
National Current Conditions - Drought.gov
WEBSep 11, 2024 — The U.S. Drought Monitor depicts the location and intensity of drought across the country using 5 classifications: Abnormally Dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought (D1–D4).
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Colorado River: First-ever shortage declared amid record US drought - BBC
WEB17 August 2021. 2:24. Drought hits the Hoover Dam: The US's largest reservoir fell to the lowest level in history. For the first time ever, the US government has declared a water shortage on the...
National Drought Status
WEBSep 19, 2024 — Current Conditons. Go to Current Conditions page. Every state in the Midwest saw degradations for the second week in a row. Meanwhile, Hurricane Francine brought heavy rainfall—and drought improvements—in the South/Southeast.
Drought is here to stay in the Western U.S. How will states ... - NBC News
WEBWater is increasingly scarce in the Western U.S. — where 72 percent of the region is in "severe" drought, 26 percent is in exceptional drought, and populations are booming.
Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting …
WEBJan 11, 2024 — The United Nations estimates that 1.84 billion people worldwide, or nearly a quarter of humanity, were living under drought in 2022 and 2023, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries.
Megadrought in Southwest Is Now the Worst in at Least 1,200 …
WEBFeb 14, 2022 — The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest megadrought—defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer — since at least the year 800, according to …
World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase nearly a ... - UN News
WEBMay 12, 2022 — Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating ways of slowing it down must happen “urgently, using every tool we can”, said the head of the UN Convention to...