Drought Monitor Looking Pretty Fugly This Week

[hatrack]

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. wow

The whole "breadbasket" of the US is affected. :(

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Is this based on where drought now exists, or where predicted? n/t

[StClone]

6. Now

And though the southern Great Plains situation may ease the drought is predicted by some climate people to expand north into Northern Great Plains and S. Canada plains.

[hatrack]

7. It's out each Thursday, but data cutoff is the preceding Tuesday

Good site!

[crizzo5137]

3. Dayum....

Thats pretty ugly... I figured this summer would be pretty gnarly after this past odd winter..

[Semi_subversive]

4. Looks like it impacts mostly red states

Maybe God is pissed at them?? Same for the hurricances.

[OneBlueSky]

5. looks like the return of the Dust Bowl . . . n/t

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[Warpy]

8. I'm surprised central NM isn't listed as "extreme,"

because we have just officially ended the driest 3 months in history.

Yes, it's a desert. However, we do generally have enough rain/snow to support scrub vegetation. This year, the fight over water will be intense, NM farmers pitted against Texas farmers, for inadequate snow melt flowing into the Rio Grande.

Even the weeds won't grown in my yard this year.