• The U.S. Drought Monitor is a weekly map of drought conditions jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) , USDA and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (usda.gov)
  • Even with recent rains, a lot of the western United States is still looking at a long-term drought, said Curtis Riganti, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center. (yahoo.com)
  • The National Drought Mitigation Center, with partners at Montana State Unversity and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will take advantage of this rich opportunity to provide guidance to the advisory committee updating the plan regarding state-of-the-art drought monitoring tools and to partner with resource managers to better understand the impacts of ecological drought on forest, range and riparian ecosystems. (unl.edu)
  • The researchers wanted to understand if there had been a transition from conventional 'slow' droughts to flash droughts and also how the trend would develop under different carbon emissions scenario. (outlookindia.com)
  • However, the rapidly developing drought events that are termed as "flash droughts" accompanied by extreme heat, low soil moisture and high evapotranspiration (ET), occurred frequently around the world, and caused devastating impacts on crop yields and water supply. (nature.com)
  • Here, we investigate the long-term trend and variability of flash droughts over China. (nature.com)
  • Flash droughts are most likely to occur over humid and semi-humid regions, such as southern and northeastern China. (nature.com)
  • There was a slight drop in temperature after 1997, but the increasing trend of flash droughts was tripled. (nature.com)
  • Further results indicate that the decreasing temperature was compensated by the accelerated drying trends of soil moisture and enhanced ET, leading to an acceleration of flash droughts during the warming hiatus. (nature.com)
  • However, to date, there are limited studies that detect and attribute the change of flash droughts specifically. (nature.com)
  • Similar to traditional droughts, a change in flash droughts is not only associated with the change in terrestrial hydrological cycle, but also influenced by the change in terrestrial energy cycle (and the related heatwaves) as well as the interaction between the land and atmosphere 15 . (nature.com)
  • Land ET is a crucial variable that affects the forming and evolution of flash droughts because the increase in ET can amplify the soil moisture anomalies and intensify the drought condition 9 , 27 . (nature.com)
  • Montana and surrounding states have experienced two high-impact flash droughts during the past five years that were characterized by rapid development during the growing season. (unl.edu)
  • New research suggests that "flash droughts" - like the one that unexpectedly gripped the Southern Rockies and Midwest in the summer of 2012 - could be predicted months in advance using soil moisture and snowpack data. (scienceblog.com)
  • These flash droughts - which form and intensify rapidly - can catch forecasters off guard because they are not preceded by any large-scale climate patterns that could act as a warning signal. (scienceblog.com)
  • 18 December 2023, Mogadishu, Somalia - The WHO country office for Somalia, along with the Federal Ministry of Health, and the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), convened a meeting to review the progress achieved through a collaborative project for scaling up the health response to drought in Somalia. (who.int)
  • In February 2023, Somalia's Federal Ministry of Health, WHO, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated that the drought in Somalia may have caused 43,000 excess deaths in 2022. (who.int)
  • The map above shows the impact of drought on California's farms, forests, and wild lands. (nasa.gov)
  • We're seeing widespread extreme and exceptional drought in California's Central Valley, parts of Nevada, central and southern Oregon, the central High Plains, southern Oklahoma and Texas,' he said. (yahoo.com)
  • California's water deficit is so deep after four years of drought that a 'steady parade of storms' like these will be needed for years to come, said Mike Anderson, climatologist for the state's Department of Water Resources. (voanews.com)
  • Think California's drought is bad? (theecologist.org)
  • This weekend's heavy rainfall was a welcome sight, but it wasn't enough to end California's record drought. (kqed.org)
  • What does La Niña mean for California's drought? (latimes.com)
  • California's current drought began in late 2011. (factcheck.org)
  • California's current drought has meteorological, hydrologic and agricultural elements. (factcheck.org)
  • Droughts lasting multiple years are also a regular characteristic of California's climate. (factcheck.org)
  • Record heat contributed to California's current meteorological drought, in part, by reducing snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains. (factcheck.org)
  • Mann and Gleick point out that the Diffenbaugh study adds significant weight to the idea that anthropogenic climate change has increased the frequency, magnitude, and duration of California's droughts. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The Drought Impact Reporter is the nation's first comprehensive database of drought impacts, providing researchers and other users detail of on the ground drought impacts nationwide. (usda.gov)
  • For decades, people have been looking at the impacts of droughts on food security and agriculture," Herrera-Estrada said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The upcoming IPCC report on present and future impacts of climate change serves to reinforce what is already being observed by different communities in Brazil: the climate is becoming far more unstable, with the occurrence of more extreme weather events such as the current drought in the Southeast and the floods in the North of the country. (350.org)
  • In response to the magnitude and diversity of impacts during these droughts, the Montana state government recently initiated a two-year collaborative process to update the state-level drought response plan that was last written in 1995. (unl.edu)
  • The proposed project, with funding via NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System Coping with Drought: Ecological Drought program, will lead to a deeper understanding of, one, the ability of various monitoring tools to accurately depict ecological drought impacts and, two, how this information could be tailored to ensure its effective use. (unl.edu)
  • Get timely updates on local drought conditions, outlooks, and impacts from NIDIS and its partners. (drought.gov)
  • Research should also analyse the impacts of drought on society, how society responds to water shortages and the effect of these responses on drought. (eurekalert.org)
  • We therefore conclude that anthropogenic warming is increasing the probability of co-occurring warm-dry conditions like those that have created the acute human and ecosystem impacts associated with the "exceptional" 2012-2014 drought in California. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Dr Ireneaus Sebit Sindani, WHO Representative a.i. in Somalia, stressed the importance of the collaboration: "This new partnership with USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance marks a significant stride in counteracting the devastating health impacts of Somalia's protracted drought. (who.int)
  • Nearly all of California was in a state of extreme drought at the end of January 2014. (nasa.gov)
  • Though northern and central California received a burst of rain and snowfall in early February, the drought remains deep. (nasa.gov)
  • Drought plagued California and much of the American Southwest for nearly five years before extensive rain and snow brought relief in 2016-17. (nasa.gov)
  • According to a new study from Stanford University, droughts caused about 10 percent of the average annual carbon dioxide emissions from power generation in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington between 2001 and 2015. (sciencedaily.com)
  • For California, Oregon and Washington, which generate a lot of hydropower, the drought-induced increases in carbon dioxide emissions represent substantial fractions of their Clean Power Plan targets," said postdoctoral researcher Julio Herrera-Estrada, lead author of the study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The worsening drought in California is one in a series of water crises that have challenged the state in the last century. (latimes.com)
  • The drought helped spur ambitious waterworks and reservoir projects aimed at giving California a more reliable water supply. (latimes.com)
  • Drought is also having a dramatic effect on California rice, which is grown mostly in the Sacramento Valley. (yahoo.com)
  • The biggest policy that exacerbates the California drought is the Endangered Species Act,' said Rob Vandenheuvel, president of the California Milk Producers Council . (cnbc.com)
  • Despite the potential for flooding and mudslides, storms moving toward California were welcome news for a state suffering from a severe drought. (voanews.com)
  • Drought conditions continue to expand in California. (latimes.com)
  • If this scenario unfolds, it would exacerbate drought conditions in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and California and worsen the wildfire outlook for the remainder of 2020 and into 2021. (latimes.com)
  • The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor data, released Thursday, shows more of California slipping into drought . (latimes.com)
  • The Drought Monitor may not show it, but those of us who are living through the severe fires know that Central and Southern Coastal California are bone dry and incendiary ," Patzert said. (latimes.com)
  • Most of Northern California above the Bay Area is in severe drought, and a portion of the state along the Oregon border, mainly in Siskiyou County, is in extreme drought. (latimes.com)
  • Trump suggested "there is no drought" in California because the state has "plenty of water. (factcheck.org)
  • But California is in its fifth year of a severe "hot" drought, the kind that's expected to become more frequent with global warming. (factcheck.org)
  • For example, one contributor to the recent California drought was a persistent high-pressure system parked off the west coast of Canada that deflected storms away from the state. (scienceblog.com)
  • The current California drought has severely affected the state's environment and economy. (eurekalert.org)
  • Dr Van Loon added that in California, one of the big questions is how much rain is needed to end the drought. (eurekalert.org)
  • Out west, extreme drought in California jumped from 11.36 percent to 27.59 percent over the past week. (unl.edu)
  • A paper just out now in PNAS by Noah Diffenbaugh, Daniel Swain, and Danielle Touma shows that "Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California. (scienceblogs.com)
  • California is experiencing extreme drought. (scienceblogs.com)
  • A number of studies have examined the California drought to try to determine if it was "caused by" (or otherwise affected by) human greenhouse gas pollution. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Gleick told me, "The scientific evidence showing the growing influence of climate changes on extreme events around the world, including the ongoing California drought, continues to pile up. (scienceblogs.com)
  • So, the current drought in California is linked to human induced climate change, and in the future, this will be a more common phenomenon than it has in the base, according to the best available science. (scienceblogs.com)
  • I asked Michael Mann about the relationship between California Drought and his recent study showing that we should soon be entering a period (over the next couple of decades) during which heat that has been hiding in the oceans will be leaving it's watery milieu and joining us up here on the surface . (scienceblogs.com)
  • First up, there's meteorological drought , which compares a bout of dryness to typical regional and seasonal weather patterns. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The 2019-2020 summer season was especially dry, leaving the entirety of North Island in severe meteorological drought. (nasa.gov)
  • It also facilities coordination of response, and provides information on the spread of drought using the latest meteorological information. (www.csiro.au)
  • The Pakistan Meteorological Department says the country has entered stages of meteorological drought (with 40 percent less than expected rainfall), hydrological drought (surface water availability 30 percent less than normal), and agricultural drought (which is severely impacting crop production). (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey calls the dry conditions that often develop after below average amounts of precipitation a "meteorological drought. (factcheck.org)
  • In other words, the state has experienced the low levels of precipitation characteristic of a meteorological drought. (factcheck.org)
  • A new study by an international group of researchers, including three scientists from the department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, offers critical insights into the immediate impact of meteorological drought on vegetation across Europe. (lu.se)
  • As the vegetation develops from spring to autumn, the sensitivity to meteorological drought increases, across all 7 investigated biomes, although the strength and time scale differs across regions. (lu.se)
  • Although soil water shortage strongly affects vegetation growth, the vegetation sensitivity to meteorological drought is is mainly related to vapor pressure and to some extent to the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • In this module, we will discuss the causes, implications and ways to characterize and predict what are often referred to as 'extreme events' in hydrology: floods and droughts. (carleton.edu)
  • The goal of Module 4, Flood and Drought , is for students to become acquainted with hydrologic variability in time and space and to gain some perspective on the importance of floods and droughts for society and ecosystems. (carleton.edu)
  • Some feared the drought could cripple the state's water system. (latimes.com)
  • The drought, in effect, has become a severe test for this state's vast water supply system, and some water officials now believe the system is not withstanding the test as well as they had expected," The Times wrote in 1976. (latimes.com)
  • Experts told us water management practices, the state's natural climate and global warming have all contributed to the state's current drought and water issues. (factcheck.org)
  • As a result, the state's ecosystems are accustomed to seasonal drought outside of those months. (factcheck.org)
  • Countries around the world are experiencing drought conditions, including 41 percent of the US and 47 percent of the European Union as of August 16. (popsci.com)
  • March and April brought little relief, intensifying one of the most severe droughts on record for the region. (nasa.gov)
  • North Island vegetation shows signs of stress during one the region's most severe droughts on record. (nasa.gov)
  • The experts say that severe droughts experienced recently in countries such as China, Brazil and the United States can no longer be seen as purely natural hazards. (eurekalert.org)
  • Severe droughts in human-dominated environments, as experienced in recent years in China, Brazil and the USA, cannot be seen as purely natural hazards because human activities play a role. (eurekalert.org)
  • India was hit by the worst drought in decades in 2016. (cnn.com)
  • Nebraska's Lower Platte South Natural Resources District jump-started drought planning with an innovative drought tournament in February 2015, and that effort won a Public Outreach Award from the Nebraska Chapter of the American Planning Association at its annual meeting in March 2016. (unl.edu)
  • Drought deciduous species, depending on the region it is situated, would undergo abscission not necessarily due to cold weather, they may undergo this process due to shortage of water which may be limited due to relatively low rainfall and summers with a relatively higher temperature or unexpected prolonged season. (wikipedia.org)
  • Almost 77 per cent of Karnataka is arid or semi-arid and is vulnerable to climate-change-related variable rainfall causing droughts and floods, and leading to groundwater depletion, and deteriorating water quality, a World. (outlookindia.com)
  • In simplest terms, drought is a prolonged dry period due to a chronic shortage of rainfall in a region. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Drought conditions across Oklahoma have expanded and worsened despite recent rainfall in the state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor report released Aug. 16, 2012. (yahoo.com)
  • Despite an average rainfall of nearly 60 inches a year, the Sunshine State has seen its share of droughts. (cnbc.com)
  • Sparse rainfall, surging demand, and inefficient infrastructure have combined to create devastating drought conditions across much of Pakistan. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • PALMETTO UPSTATE NEEDS RAIN … Nine months after record rainfall inundated the Palmetto State (with deadly consequences), several South Carolina counties are experiencing severe drought conditions. (fitsnews.com)
  • USDA works across government, non-profit and private sectors to track drought conditions and deliver science-based solutions and technical expertise to help farmers, ranchers, private landowners, and other land managers respond to these challenges. (usda.gov)
  • As multiple countries around the world face drought conditions, dried lakes and rivers are revealing everything from World War II era bombs to human remains. (popsci.com)
  • Experts continue to point to climate change as the primary reason why droughts and other extreme conditions continue to persist. (popsci.com)
  • Over the past decades, meteorologists have linked drought patterns in the United States to abnormally cool sea surface temperatures in the Pacific tropics -- also known as La Niña conditions. (howstuffworks.com)
  • during a drought it varies according to weather and wind conditions. (usgs.gov)
  • Dry conditions led officials to impose mandatory conservation measures for the first time since the drought of 1976-77. (latimes.com)
  • The anthropogenic warming in the next few decades may exacerbate future flash drought conditions in China. (nature.com)
  • Farmers, agricultural economists and others taking stock of this summer's growing season say drought conditions and extreme weather have wreaked havoc on many row crops, fruits and vegetables, with the American Farm Bureau Federation suggesting yields could be down by as much as a third compared with last year. (yahoo.com)
  • That has led to a somewhat less complicated system of water allocation in drought conditions, Merriam said. (cnbc.com)
  • The underlying data display software is known as the ' TerriaJS ' platform, and our Terria team's work on the platform allows governments and other stakeholders to gain deeper insights into current drought conditions, where needs and sensitivities are and where more support is needed. (www.csiro.au)
  • We are developing ecologically-relevant drought monitoring tools and assessing the ability of traditional drought indicators to accurately represent ecological drought conditions and then using social science methods to understand how these tools could be used to support drought monitoring, planning and mitigation activities. (unl.edu)
  • These conditions can then cause a "hydrologic drought," where the flows and levels of streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs decline. (factcheck.org)
  • Scientists call the combination of dry and hot conditions a "hot" drought . (factcheck.org)
  • E]xecutives said it could happen if drought conditions persist. (nam.org)
  • HOT, DRY SUMMER EXPANDS DROUGHT CONDITIONS … A dangerous drought continued to creep eastward across South Carolina this month - with at least four Palmetto State. (fitsnews.com)
  • LONG, HOT, DRY SUMMER IN STORE FOR PALMETTO STATE Last week we reported on creeping drought conditions across the state of South Carolina - particularly. (fitsnews.com)
  • Things aren't "Cali bad," but drought conditions are beginning to appear in the Palmetto State according to the S.C. Department of. (fitsnews.com)
  • Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) analyzed the conditions leading up to the 2012 drought, which ultimately caused $30 billion in economic losses, looking for any warning signs that a drought was on the way. (scienceblog.com)
  • This study highlights the role of snowpack and soil moisture conditions in predicting the sudden onset of drought. (scienceblog.com)
  • While observations of snowpack and soil moisture could have helped predict the 2012 drought, the method does not replace other drought prediction measures that identify large-scale phenomena that frequently lead to drought conditions. (scienceblog.com)
  • Recent research has focussed on natural areas, such as the effects of climate change on drought under natural conditions. (eurekalert.org)
  • SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Sonoma County is now the first Bay Area county to be classified as being under 'extreme drought' conditions. (ktvu.com)
  • Most of the state remains in 'orange,' categorized as 'severe drought' conditions. (ktvu.com)
  • At least 47% of Europe is in drought warning conditions, the second of three drought categories, according to the Observatory. (accuweather.com)
  • Another 17% of Europe is under alert conditions, the most severe category, and drought hazard continues to increase in a handful of nations, including Spain. (accuweather.com)
  • In addition, the probability that precipitation deficits co-occur with warm conditions and the probability that precipitation deficits produce drought have both increased. (scienceblogs.com)
  • India's killer heatwave is leaving the country reeling from the worst drought in decades and a rural population struggling to survive. (cnn.com)
  • The region is reeling from the worst drought in 40 years and other climate shocks, years of conflict and instability, the impact of the pandemic and rising global food prices. (who.int)
  • During the 1976-77 drought, the water level at Lake Shasta dropped precipitously. (latimes.com)
  • During the 1976-77 drought, salt levels in their water exceeded public health limits , prompting water rationing orders. (kqed.org)
  • Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Public Health Information Coalition ( NPHIC external icon ) developed this drought communication toolkit to provide materials about the public health effects of drought. (cdc.gov)
  • According to New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), drought in some parts of the country this year rivals that of 2013 -at the time, the country's worst drought in decades. (nasa.gov)
  • In the Southeast, the state of São Paulo, where a great part of Brazil's population is concentrated, is facing the worst drought in decades. (350.org)
  • We find that although there has not been a substantial change in the probability of either negative or moderately negative precipitation anomalies in recent decades, the occurrence of drought years has been greater in the past two decades than in the preceding century. (scienceblogs.com)
  • When hydrological drought sets in, everyone else begins to take notice. (howstuffworks.com)
  • In particular, certain regions are experiencing increased intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts, leaving a significant impact on society and ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • In total, the researchers found drought-induced shifts in energy sources led to an additional 100 million tons of carbon dioxide across 11 western states between 2001 and 2015. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In addition to plentiful data from recent droughts, the researchers could examine how emissions change with different types of backup power plants because states across the region have a wide variety of energy mixes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Previous efforts to understand how drought affects electricity have mostly relied on models of power plants, which require researchers to make assumptions about factors such as the plants' efficiencies and decisions about how water resources are allocated. (sciencedaily.com)
  • To explore the physical connections among snowpack, soil moisture, and drought, the researchers analyzed data collected between 1980-2012. (scienceblog.com)
  • Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling on drought researchers and managers around the world to consider both human activity and natural phenomena in their battle to preserve increasingly scarce global water supplies. (eurekalert.org)
  • The University's Water Science Research Group is leading key researchers from 13 organisations in eight countries to redefine how the world should study and tackle drought. (eurekalert.org)
  • The researchers propose broadening the definition of drought to include water shortage caused and made worse -- or sometimes improved -- by human activity. (eurekalert.org)
  • The water science researchers say that defining the causes of drought is crucial in deciding whether management should focus on making changes to cope with climate-induced drought (adaptation) or tackling the actions that lead to human-induced drought (mitigation). (eurekalert.org)
  • To gain a comprehensive understanding, researchers utilized in this study an array of remotely sensed vegetation indicators combined with climate data to examine how vegetation responds to drought across European biomes during the period from 2000 to 2020. (lu.se)
  • Climate change and drought : factsheet Surry Hills, New South Wales: Climate Council of Australia, 2018. (nla.gov.au)
  • Australia's drought has become a key issue, in 2018. (www.csiro.au)
  • Increasing occurrences of extreme weather events, such as the 2018 drought over northern Europe, are a concerning issue under global climate change. (lu.se)
  • Five consecutive failed rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa since 2022 have led to an unprecedented drought crisis. (who.int)
  • In May 2022, WHO declared the drought a Grade 3 public health emergency, indicating the highest level of concern. (who.int)
  • Montana is an ideal testbed for this work because of its complex terrain containing diverse ecosystems, as well as its susceptibility to drought. (unl.edu)
  • Drought tournaments as a form of scenario planning have been conducted at a variety of scales, with NDMC representatives contributing and observing in various capacities. (unl.edu)
  • This oversight is significant because understanding how drought affects vegetation growth at an ecosystem level is vital for crop planning, efficient water resource management, ecosystem restoration, and drought risk mitigation. (lu.se)
  • Drought affects nearly every facet of USDA, reducing water quality, quantity and devastating the communities, farmers and ranchers we serve and the resources we protect. (usda.gov)
  • Drought also affects farmers by reducing soil moisture, hindering crop growth, which the USGS calls an "agricultural drought. (factcheck.org)
  • Nutrition and health needs in drought-stricken Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • NIDIS supports drought research through advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms that lead to drought as well as improving the coordination and delivery of drought information. (drought.gov)
  • Drought deciduous, or drought semi-deciduous plants refers to plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or in the dry season. (wikipedia.org)
  • While distance to Ba source, water depth, pore-water geochemistry, and species-specific effects need to be considered in interpreting the data, our results demonstrate confidence in the use of Ba/Ca of benthic foraminifera from near-continent records as a proxy for past riverine discharge and to identify periods of drought. (lu.se)
  • The concept of drought tournaments was developed in 2011 in Canada, with the idea of tapping into participants' competitive energies by dividing them into teams with assigned roles for each player, and judging each team's response to a hypothetical drought. (unl.edu)
  • The concept of drought as a reflection of the power of death is transformed as Israelite monotheism emerges, and I study how this initially hostile power step by step becomes a part of Yahweh's own retinue. (lu.se)
  • Submit a report to the Drought Impact Reporter to describe how drought is affecting you and your livelihood. (usda.gov)
  • Historical documents describe how drought created large numbers of environmental refugees that fled the famine-stricken countryside for food relief in towns. (cdc.gov)
  • Deciduous plants can also be categorised differently than their adaptation to drought or dry seasons, which can be temperate deciduous during cold seasons, and in contrast to evergreen plants which do not shed leaves annually, possessing green leaves throughout the year. (wikipedia.org)
  • Short term adaptation to drought can decrease the severity of the next drought or even cause within drought changes influencing the drought end. (eurekalert.org)
  • In a larger geographic and seasonal sense, you can look at drought in four key categories. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Next there's seasonal drought , which refers to a region's seasonal dry spells -- such as the dry seasons experienced in the tropics. (howstuffworks.com)
  • This study demonstrated the potential to improve seasonal drought outlooks in the future, giving farmers, water planners, and others more time to prepare. (scienceblog.com)
  • Seasonal drought forecasts issued in May 2012 for the upcoming summer did not foresee a drought forming in the country's midsection. (scienceblog.com)
  • This is another ingredient that could be used when making seasonal drought forecasts," Done said. (scienceblog.com)
  • Finally, there's invisible drought , so named because rain showers tend to mask its severity. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The U.S. National Weather Service identifies four different operational definitions that also illustrate the escalating severity of drought. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Known as the "Dust Bowl" drought, it is remembered for its length and severity. (latimes.com)
  • Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record, the victim of changing weather patterns attributed to global warming and a government that is only just starting to wake up to the severity of the position. (google.com)
  • Environmentalists point to the increasing frequency and severity of drought-causing El Niño weather patterns, blamed on global warming. (google.com)
  • Storing water in reservoirs and extracting groundwater increase evaporation and decrease groundwater levels, making the drought worse. (eurekalert.org)
  • An ancient Roman military camp in what is now northwestern Spain was revealed in its entirety as reservoirs in Europe continue to shrink during August amid a record-breaking drought. (accuweather.com)
  • The proportion of the lower 48 states in moderate drought or worse increased to 32.45 percent from 31.76 percent a week earlier. (unl.edu)
  • Parts of the Northeast have seen a two-class degradation over the past four weeks, with moderate drought jumping from 3.27 percent to 7.79 percent since the beginning of November," said Eric Luebehusen, meteorologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist. (unl.edu)
  • U.S. Drought Monitor authors synthesize many drought indicators into a single map that identifies areas of the country that are abnormally dry (D0), in moderate drought (D1), in severe drought (D2), extreme drought (D3) and exceptional drought (D4). (unl.edu)
  • only behind 'exceptional drought. (ktvu.com)
  • The areas in severe, extreme and exceptional drought also showed small increases. (unl.edu)
  • During a drought, the significance of evapotranspiration is magnified, because evapotranspiration continues to deplete the limited remaining water supplies in lakes and streams and the soil. (usgs.gov)
  • Flash drought averaged over China increased by 109% from 1979 to 2010, and the increase was mainly due to a long term warming of temperature (50%), followed by the contributions from decreasing soil moisture and increasing ET. (nature.com)
  • Drought stress is most noticeable on slopes and lawns established on shallow or poor soil, Patton said. (purdue.edu)
  • In a study funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres , the scientists find that observations of snowmelt and soil moisture could have predicted the ensuing drought up to four months in advance. (scienceblog.com)
  • Previous research has shown that looking at soil moisture alone could improve the lead-time of drought predictions by one to two months. (scienceblog.com)
  • The model helped us get a handle on how robust the relationships between snowpack, soil moisture, and drought are," Done said. (scienceblog.com)
  • 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 and useful for decision makers and stakeholders. (drought.gov)
  • This will help decentralize the drought response, increase state-level capacity to manage crises and strengthen collaboration with other stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health, Health Cluster partners, and other clusters such as the Food Security, Nutrition, and WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) clusters. (who.int)
  • While droughts are common throughout the Earth's history, they can lead to potential famine and displacement of populations , like what the US experienced during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s . (popsci.com)
  • Throughout Earth's history, drought has reduced whole species to bone, toppled empires into ruin and altered continental landscapes. (howstuffworks.com)
  • North Korea was also affected by extreme drought with the United Nations estimating approximately US$110 million of support would be needed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Red signifies extreme drought. (ktvu.com)
  • Hasting saw 29 continuous days of drought in 2020 compared to 33 days in 2013. (nasa.gov)
  • The Waikato District, south of Auckland, saw 61 continuous days of drought in 2020 compared to 63 days in 2013. (nasa.gov)
  • 77 continuous days of drought in 2020 contributed to the city's driest January-April period on record. (nasa.gov)
  • Thunderstorms in early May 2020 finally delivered much needed rain to parts of New Zealand's North Island, but it was not enough to bring the area out of drought. (nasa.gov)
  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (2020, May 5) Drought hits hard, far and wide . (nasa.gov)
  • NZ Herald (2020, May 6) Drought hits hard, far and wide . (nasa.gov)
  • Next up, there's agricultural drought , which focuses on specific crop needs. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Agriculture Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service (FFAS) Michael Scuse (left) tours a drought stricken corn field with Doug Goyings, on the Goyings farm in Paulding County, Ohio on July 17, 2012. (ipsnews.net)
  • Statewide agricultural losses [across all crops and livestock] that year totaled 7.62 billion dollars, making it the most costly drought in history - more than 3.5 billion dollars higher than the 2006 drought losses, which was the previous costliest drought on record. (ipsnews.net)
  • The goals of the LPS NRD Drought Tournament were to bring together agricultural producers and municipal water providers in a "low-stress, no fault environment" to talk about issues that could arise in drought, and to learn about what management practices are already in place for drought response, the nomination said. (unl.edu)
  • Below-average tree growth, reconstructed drought, and low crop yields occurred during 19 of these 22 typhus epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • The new research suggests that failure to prepare for the emissions impact of these droughts could make achieving climate and air quality goals more difficult. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dry summer months (December through February) can set the stage for water shortages and drought in autumn. (nasa.gov)
  • Drought-stressed vegetation reflects more visible light and less infrared than healthy vegetation. (nasa.gov)
  • Most of Texas is brown in this vegetation index image, revealing the negative impact drought had on plants in August 2009. (nasa.gov)
  • Reduced vegetation productivity, shifts in vegetation composition, loss of biodiversity, and a decline in essential ecosystem services, follows in the aftermath of droughts with dire social, ecological and economic consequences. (lu.se)
  • This highlights the urgent need for preparedness and a deeper understanding of how vegetation responds to drought. (lu.se)
  • Historically, much of the research focused on overall annual vegetation responses to drought and recovery post-drought. (lu.se)
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) drought disaster designation data were ingested from the USDA Disaster Designation Information page. (drought.gov)
  • Natural disasters like floods, cyclones, and droughts occur in the June-October period every year, and therefore the state administration must strengthen its preparedness to handle such calamities, the Chief Minister said. (outlookindia.com)
  • Western states in recent years have suffered the kind of intense droughts that scientists expect to become more common in many regions around the world as global warming continues. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Skeletal trees 900-years-dead stand scorched in the sun, solemn testaments to the destructive power of drought. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Scattered thunderstorms in the Rockies and parts of the Southwest are doing little to ease the hardships caused by the severe drought, now going on almost three years in some states. (cnbc.com)
  • It also calls for rescheduling water supplies in wet years to prepare for future droughts, while also easing some environmental restrictions. (cnbc.com)
  • A ban on irrigation, which would remain in place until May next year, spells possible ruin for thousands of farmers, already debt-laden and in despair after six straight years of drought. (google.com)
  • But the current drought is especially different because 2015 and 2014 were also the two warmest years on record in the state (and it's likely globally as well). (factcheck.org)
  • The record-breaking drought in Europe has shrunk countless bodies of water around the continent, and now a reservoir in Spain, at less than half capacity, has fully revealed a Roman fort that has been at least partially submerged for 73 years. (accuweather.com)
  • The ongoing drought in Europe is expected to be one of the worst in 500 years, scientists at the European Drought Observatory said in early August. (accuweather.com)
  • The resources which have been posted on this site have been put here to provide information that water utility managers can use to monitor the current drought and to make informed decisions relative to the management of their sources of supply. (maine.gov)
  • The causes of the current drought, which began in 2002 but has been felt most acutely over the past six months, are complex. (google.com)
  • Current population in drought statistics for the U.S. Drought Monitor are updated weekly on Thursdays, with data valid through Tuesday at 7 a.m. (drought.gov)
  • We intend to place through the review of the current literature the drought phenomenon in the wide discussion toward the risks, hazards and disasters, standing out their importance on the perspective of the climate changes theoretical. (bvsalud.org)
  • Her current research is focused on land systems and conflict, more specifically on the links between drought, land use change, migration and conflict in Syria and Iraq. (lu.se)
  • However WaterAid India's Head of Policy, Nitya Jacob, says groundwater levels are so depleted that even if a good monsoon comes in June - and meteorologists predict there will be one that ends the drought - it won't be enough. (cnn.com)
  • Managing drought effectively means we must acknowledge that human influence is as integral to drought as natural climate variability. (eurekalert.org)
  • Meanwhile, China is facing its worst drought on record . (popsci.com)
  • The worst time to worry about this is when you are in a drought and the best time to work on it is before a drought. (cnbc.com)
  • The potential that a dry winter may result from La Niña is not good news for a state parched by drought and suffering the worst wildfire season on record . (latimes.com)
  • We find that in a number of western states where hydropower plays a key role in the clean energy portfolio, droughts cause an increase in emissions as natural gas or coal-fired power plants are brought online to pick up the slack when water for hydropower comes up short. (sciencedaily.com)
  • deep soaking will foster deep roots, which will help plants better survive a prolonged drought. (purdue.edu)
  • Europe suffered a severe drought last summer with high heat causing soils and plants to dry out helping to spread wildfires. (eurekalert.org)
  • The key, he adds, is to choose plants based on their drought tolerance and the amount of water they need to stay healthy. (smu.edu)
  • The SMU gardens feature drought-friendly plants such as red yucca, royal agave, lantana and Silver Falls dichondra, Dilliard says. (smu.edu)
  • Visit farmers.gov to learn more about the many USDA programs that can help you manage risk, build resilience and assist with drought recovery on your operation. (usda.gov)
  • This drought hit farmers and ranchers hard. (latimes.com)
  • In June 2015, the newspaper reported that, "Farmers in the Central Valley call it a 'man-made drought,' complaining that water needed for crops is going to fish instead. (factcheck.org)
  • U.S. Drought Monitor data online goes back to January 2000. (unl.edu)