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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin - September 2018

Document Author

NIDIS/NOAA

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin - September 2018 (1.72 MB)

Document Date

September 21, 2018

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin June – August 2018. Dated September 2018.

Summer began extremely warm but ended with cooler temperatures across much of the Basin. Colorado had its 3rd warmest summer on record. Several areas of the Basin had a wet summer. For instance, portions of southeastern South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska had one of their wettest summers on record. However, drought was an issue for some areas, impacting crops and water supplies in Colorado, the Dakotas, Kansas, and Missouri.

NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Program created these Climate Outlooks to inform the public about recent climate impacts within their respective regions. Each regional report contains easy-to-understand language, and anyone can access them through the Drought Portal at https://www.drought.gov/drought/resources/reports.

Example image of the Climate Impacts and Outlooks report

State(s)

Colorado

Iowa

Kansas

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

North Dakota

South Dakota

Climate Region(s)

High Plains