Snow Drought Current Conditions and Impacts in the West – El Nino Pattern – February 12, 2024

February 12, 2024Posted inweatherNo Comments

I receive this information once a month but it is really available weekly. But I get a nice report once a month so I send much of that out. The full report can be accessed HERE.

Here are the Highlights

 But there has just been a big snow event. So in the body of this article, I include much of the rest of the information provided to me by NIDIS but I also update one of the maps to February 10 conditions and include an end of January reservoir storage graphic also.   Some readers will have to click on “Read More” to access the rest of the article and others will not. It just depends on when and how you accessed this article.

Western Drought Update Posted on January 13, 2024

January 13, 2024Posted inweatherNo Comments

There is a succession of presentations by NOAA on a variety of subjects one of which is drought.  In many cases, the tape of the presentation including the question and answer portion is made available HERE. This one does not seem to have been posted yet but I obtained the graphics from the author. So there is no audio. Any comments in comment boxes are by me and will mostly be explanations that would otherwise be in the audio. The visual quality in the graphics is far better in this article than it would be in the tape of a webinar.

I selected this talk to present because I thought the author was unusually good at addressing multiple pieces of information in a single slide.

I know that I have to start reporting on other parts of the U.S. but the West seemed to be the most impacted early in this El Nino. That is changing so I will be reporting on other parts of the U.S. Each of these articles takes a lot of time for me to prepare.  They are all good but this one is extra good.

 

 

Some readers will have to click on”Read More” to read the full article.

Southwest Drought Briefing – August 26, 2023

August 26, 2023Posted inweatherNo Comments

NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) hosted a Drought Briefing on the Southwest on August 22, 2023. In this article, we provide the recording of the webinar and some summary slides.

In the body of the article, there is an outline of the material presented in the webinar and the time that it is presented. The video should play if you click on it and then click again on the start button. But if for some reason it does not, simply click HERE and you will then be able to click on the start button and the video will begin. But I do not think that you will need to do that.

If the video starts somewhere other than at the beginning, you simply click on the progress bar and drag it to the left which is the starting position. The progress bar also allows you to skip over parts of the presentation that is of less interest and it will remember where you were if you watch the presentation in parts at different times.

Southwest Drought Briefing – A Focus on Snowpack: April 5, 2022

April 9, 2022Posted inweatherNo Comments

NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) hosted a Drought Briefing on the Southwest on April 5, 2022. In this article, we provide the recording of the webinar.  There are three amazing presentations which include some new ways to make run-off forecasts. I am sure you will find it very interesting. In some cases, the results are surprising. These are very good presenters and provide a lot of information. It is not a good situation but not as bad as one might expect given the continuation of the La Nina.