The Spring Climate Report for the Midwest, Missouri River and Great Lake Basins – Posted on July 6, 2024

July 6, 2024Posted inweatherNo Comments

Many useful reports can be found at Drought.Gov. This is the LINK for the reports.

The way these reports are utilized was assessed by a survey in 2017 and this is a summary of the survey results.

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The table of who uses these reports is very interesting.  The survey was for the three regions that I am showing in this article. It may have changed over time.

Some will need to click on “READ MORE” to access the rest of this article.

Drought Update – January 27, 2024

January 27, 2024Posted inweatherNo Comments

Every week on Thursday, the Drought Monitor LINK is updated for every state in the U.S. plus most territories.

 

 

 

 

And there is another source of information on drought from certain groupings of states that operate what is called a Drought Early Warming System (DEWS). They sometimes have webinars and may issue reports without having a webinar. Not all parts of the U.S. are covered. These groups of states seem to issue reports every two months. I am only showing the recent reports since a month-old report at this time of the year can be misleading.

To get to that part of this article where I provide these reports you may have to click on “Read More”. I provide maps for all of the existing DEWS.  And other groups of states report on precipitation, streamflow, and reservoir status which overlaps a lot with what is covered by the DEWS. So I plan to write about the activity of both kinds of groups. Today I am focusing on the DEWS.