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CPC Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks

The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) produces temperature and precipitation outlooks for the U.S., including 6-10 day, 8-14 day, monthly, and seasonal outlooks.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
1991–2020
File Format
images
shapefile
kml

CPC U.S. Drought Outlooks

The monthly and seasonal (3-month) outlook for drought tendency from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), which depicts large-scale trends based on subjectively derived probabilities guided by shor

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Outlooks
File Format
images
pdf

Drought Impact Reporter (DIR)

Drought Impacts Reporter (DIR): an interactive database of drought impacts in the U.S., by location, data, type, and cost built from stakeholder, government, media and other reports.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2005 - Present

Drought Termination and Amelioration

NCEI provides precipitation data that can be used to show probability or the amount of precipitation to ameliorate or end a drought at different monthly scales.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions, Forecasts
File Format
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Data Type
Model