Jacob's Well near Wimberley, Texas. TerraFrost,CC BY 4.0, viaWikimedia Commons Florida counties set fire restrictions Drought conditions in Florida fluctuated in February on the U.S. Drought Monitor. On Feb. 14, seventeen counties had a Keetch-Byram Drought Index above 500, indicating an eleva...
Drought Monitor (USDM) operated by NOAA reported extreme to exceptional droughts in the northern, western and northwestern parts of Texas for the same periods. However, our agricultural drought maps and USDM maps did not agree in term of the spatial distribution of agricultural droughts in other ...
TheTexas Water Development Boardwas soon created to serve the state on preparedness and assistance in times of drought crises. LOOK: Counties With the Worst Droughts in Texas Stackercompiled a list of counties with the worst droughts in Texas using data fromU.S. Drought Monitor. Gallery Credit:...
Drought conditions have begun to stress corn, soybeans, wheat and livestock in some areas, according to the weeklyU.S. Drought Monitorreleased Thursday by theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln. In an image on the U.S. Drought Monitor website, sections of the U.S. are pictured as red and dark...
US Drought Monitor: Rain, snow slash California drought Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday. ...
horrific dust storms. Although it technically refers to the western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico, the Dust Bowl has come to symbolize the hardships of the entire nation during the 1930s...
Drought Monitor, Luebehusen created what looked like an omelet on a map of the United States. Yellow and brown swirls covered much of Texas and swaths of the Southeast, with splotches of red mixed in. “Here you have a divergent signal where many of these folks have had near-historic ...
Diminished returns on cutbacks Towns and cities in New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma andCalifornia have taken strong measures to restrict local water useover the past months—and the number doing so has increased. However, there's a chance of diminishing returns when people cut back ...
More than 60% of Texas was experiencing drought last week in two of the most intense categories, according to the US Drought Monitor. The state also recently has experienced heat waves that pushed temperatures into the triple digits, leaving millions under excessive heat alerts. The human-caused...
US Drought Monitor’s most extreme category – is entrenched across73% of Louisiana, according to data released Thursday. It’s the largest area of exceptional drought on record in the state. Exceptional drought has also spread across nearly half of Mississippi and a portion ...