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The ACF River Basin Drought and Water Dashboard is a web-based application that allows decision makers to view real-time information on the ACF River Basin all in one place.
The U.S. Drought Portal's Historical Data & Conditions Tool displays three historical drought datasets side by side on an interactive time series graph and map: U.S.
The research-based website NationalSoilMoisture.com provides high-resolution gridded soil moisture products derived from in situ soil moisture measurements, Natural Resources Conserva
The Climate Toolbox’s Drought Recovery Tool allows users to investigate the probability of recovering from drought conditions in the Western U.S.
Topofire is a topographically resolved wildfire danger and drought monitoring system for the contiguous U.S.
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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
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After a warm, dry October, drought reached a nationwide record this year. Ohio and West Virginia saw their greatest area in Extreme and Exceptional Drought (D3-D4) since the U.S. Drought Monitor began in 2000. Far West Texas, southern New Mexico, and the Northern Rockies remained in persistent drought throughout the year. Meanwhile, areas of the West and Southwest in long-term drought saw some
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Next week, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) is hosting its 105th annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.This year, the meeting will focus on the theme, "Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales." The theme focuses on providing “actionable science for society-at-large to chart a future course for a more hopeful and thriving planet” in the context of global
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A patchwork of green circles dot the landscape across the High Plains of the United States, their green grid created by sprinklers irrigating with well water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer. Relying heavily on the Ogallala Aquifer, farmers and livestock growers in this semi-arid region produce nearly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cotton and cattle produced in the United States as of 2011.The
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NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) has awarded $1.95 million in funding for projects to support tribal drought resilience as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. This investment will help tribal nations address current and future drought risk on tribal lands across the Western U.S. while informing decision-making and strengthening tribal drought
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Higher temperatures can cause droughts even with normal precipitationHigher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), and the
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This news story was based on an article originally published by the University of California Merced.Drought recovery isn't only important for human water users. For example, migrating birds depend on being able to locate the same sources of water year after year to survive on their long journeys.A new study, published in Nature Communications: Earth & Environment, found climate
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NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) has announced up to $4 million in funding for 8 two-year projects as part of the Fiscal Year 2025 NIDIS Coping with Drought: Understanding and Assessing Drought in a Changing Climate competition. This competition seeks projects focused on improving drought indicator performance to account for non-stationarity with the
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New interactive maps on Drought.gov can help users better prepare for heat and drought in their communities, with data from NOAA’s National Weather Service. Drought.gov now displays customizable maps showing National Weather Service heat advisories, warnings, and watches, as well as 3–7 and 8–14 day heat hazard outlooks. These maps can be overlaid with the U.S. Drought Monitor to monitor areas
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The American Meteorological Society is hosting its 105th annual meeting on January 12–16, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year, the meeting will focus on the theme, "Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales."The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and partners are excited to co-organize two sessions during this conference:Advances in Communicating
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This article was originally published by Louisiana State University.In the summer and fall of 2023, South Louisiana faced two simultaneous crises. First, a historic drought trapped residents in crippling heat and caused up to $290 million in agricultural losses.Second, water levels of the Mississippi dropped so low saltwater began to travel up the river, threatening the water supply in New
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Today, the NOAA Climate Program Office’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program jointly announced $4.9 million in funding for NOAA labs and research partners to improve drought monitoring and prediction in the American West. This research combines $3.1 million in funding from NIDIS and $1.8 million from the
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