Updated drought map shows worsening conditions in ... - ABC News
1 day ago · Experts discuss how the Northeast will deal with persistent drought. Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map ...
New Jersey declares drought warning and urges residents to ...
2 days ago · New Jersey’s governor issued a drought warning Wednesday and said the state could implement mandatory water restrictions if conditions worsen. A record dry spell has led to the driest conditions ...
Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor
Ailinglapalap reported 6.17 inches of rain, remaining free from dryness. This week, Jaluit received 1.71 inches of rain, remaining free of drought. Majuro, Kwajalein, and Wotje reported 3.01, 2.70 and 1.45 inches of rain this week, respectively. Thus, these islands remain drought-free.
Brazil drought: Stark pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of ...
Sep 30, 2024 · Last year’s devastating drought in the Amazon Basin was made 30 times more likely by climate change, according to a report from World Weather Attribution, a network of scientists that analyze ...
U.S. Winter Outlook: Warmer and drier South, wetter North
Oct 17, 2024 · The U.S. Drought Outlook map for November 2024 through January 2025 predicts drought improvement in the Ohio River Valley and the northern Rockies. Drought is likely to persist in portions of the Great Plains and the Midwest. Drought development is expected from the Four Corners region to the western Gulf coast. (Image credit: NOAA)
The Latest in Drought Information
Oct 9, 2024 · NIDIS is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, state, and local levels across the country. A drought early warning system (DEWS) utilizes new and existing networks of federal, tribal, state, local, and academic partners to make climate and drought science accessible ...
U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for July 2, 2024 | News ...
According to the July 2, 2024 U.S. Drought Monitor, moderate to exceptional drought covers 15.8% of the United States including Puerto Rico, an increase from last week’s 13.6%. The worst drought categories (extreme to exceptional drought) increased from 0.6% last week to 0.8%. A strong ridge of high pressure continued to dominate the upper ...
National Current Conditions - Drought.gov
Oct 30, 2024 · A large swath of the Central U.S. saw good precipitation this past week, improving drought in the Southern Plains, South, and western Midwest. However, conditions in the East worsened, especially in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic. As of November 5, 2024, 43.4% of the U.S. and Puerto Rico and 51.89% of the lower 48 states are in drought, according to the U.S. …
National Drought Status
Oct 31, 2024 · A large swath of the Central U.S. saw good precipitation this past week, improving drought in the Southern Plains, South, and western Midwest. However, conditions in the East worsened, especially in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic. As of November 5, 2024, 43.4% of the U.S. and Puerto Rico and 51.89% of the lower 48 states are in drought, according to the U.S. …
Record drought gripped much of the U.S. in 2022 | National ...
Jan 10, 2023 · Hurricane Ian was the most costly event of 2022 at $112.9 billion, and ranks as the third most costly hurricane on record (since 1980) for the U.S., behind Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Harvey (2017). Over the last seven years (2016-2022), 122 separate billion-dollar disasters have killed at least 5,000 people, with a total cost of ...
Unprecedented drought emergency demands urgent action - UN News
Dec 1, 2023 · Unprecedented drought emergency demands urgent action. Sand flows from a child's hand like through an hourglass. In southwestern Ethiopia, drought worsened by climate change is threatening crops and livestock, pushing the population to the brink. A new report by the UN team combatting desertification reveals alarming trends over the past two ...
CT's drought just got worse, federal officials say
1 day ago · Published November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM EST. Dry conditions in Connecticut are getting worse, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A large portion of western Connecticut was listed by the agency Thursday as in a “severe drought” while the rest of the state is still in a “moderate drought.”. It’s a sign of worsening water conditions ...
Megadrought in Southwest Is Now the Worst in at Least 1,200 ...
Feb 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 a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase ... - UN News
May 12, 2022 · World ‘at a crossroads’ as droughts increase nearly a third in a generation. A mother carries her child past the carcasses of livestock that died as a result of a severe drought in Marsabit, Kenya. Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating ways of slowing it down must happen “urgently, using ...
Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting ...
Jan 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.
NJDEP| News Releases | Governor Phil Murphy and DEP ...
2 days ago · NJDEP| News Releases | Governor Phil Murphy and DEP Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette Give Update on New Jersey’s Record-breaking Dry Spell and Wildfire Response (Joint Release) | As New Jersey continues to experience historically low precipitation, above-average temperatures, and deteriorating water-supply conditions, Governor Phil Murphy and DEP …
Extreme drought conditions spread to 8 N.J. counties. See ...
1 day ago · Rare "extreme" drought conditions have spread to eight counties in New Jersey, while the rest of the state is now in a severe drought, according to the latest national drought status map, issued ...
Bodies of water all over North America are drying ... - ABC News
Oct 19, 2022 · Bodies of water all over North America are drying up as a result of drought and a decrease in precipitation, experts told ABC News. Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Colorado River basins could face tipping point, drought study ...
2 days ago · The study, published Nov. 9 in the journal Earth’s Future, is the largest and most comprehensive exploratory modeling analysis of drought vulnerability in the Colorado West Slope basins – six watersheds along the Colorado River that feed the Lake Powell reservoir and support a $5 billion annual agriculture economy. The finding comes at a ...
Drought is here to stay in the Western U.S. How will states ...
Water 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. Insufficient monsoon ...