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Missouri is working to expand soil moisture data across the state to help decision-makers better predict, prepare for, and track both drought and flood events. Read more.


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The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, tribal, state, and local levels.

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U.S. Drought Monitor Category
% of U.S.
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19.8
10.7
5.5
1.4
37.4
Percent of Normal Precipitation (%)
100%
Departure from Normal Max Temperature (°F)
0

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The state of Missouri is working to better track water from the sky into the soil, in the hopes that expanded soil moisture data across the state can help decision-makers better predict, prepare for, and track both drought and flood events. Following damaging flooding in 2019, a multi-state, multi-agency working group with representatives from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska
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A key to an effective drought early warning system is having the people and processes in place before drought happens. In August 2024, parts of Ohio reached Exceptional Drought (D4), the most intense level of the U.S. Drought Monitor. This was also the first time ever that Ohio had areas of Exceptional Drought (D4) on the U.S. Drought Monitor since it began in 2000. Even though this was the
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Weather forecasts struggle to predict how much snow will stick around, or how quickly it will melt away. Scientists are addressing this challenge by improving how climate models simulate snow, a crucial step to better predict droughts and water availability in the Western U.S. In a new Journal of Hydrometeorology study, a group of researchers from the National Science Foundation's National Center