One of Ellenburg’s jobs is to examine drought information from across the state and give his recommendation to the U.S. Drought Monitor authors, who then make the weekly drought map, which is ...

How can we not be in drought? I talked to the person who issued last week’s Drought Monitor ranking map. Richard Heim, meteorologist at NOAA’s National Center For Environmental Information ...

There’s no more drought in California, except for a sliver in the most northwestern portion of the state. California is 99.93% drought-free, according to a Thursday update from the U.S. Drought ...

Now, six months later, just 8% of the state is at that level and 49% of the state is free of any drought conditions, a level that wasn’t even on the map in September. All 58 counties are still ...

Some portions of Iowa are still under moderate drought conditions. The newest Iowa Drought Monitor report shows where the ...

Looking at the latest climatological data released by NOAA NCEI (through July 2023), Louisiana Climate ... areas of Severe Drought (D2) expanded on the map due to a combination of factors ...

Drought Monitor maps from the Oklahoma Mesonet consistently ... During the first half of 2023, cow and heifer slaughter has climbed as producers reduced numbers. During a drought, more female ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The newest drought map indicates 83 percent of Kansas is in some level of drought. Eastern Sedgwick County is part of a large swath in the eastern half of the state shown to ...

Official drought conditions are now being found in Michigan and larger areas in the Midwest. The U.S. Drought Monitor released the latest update yesterday, June 8, using data and information up ...

“The Department of Agriculture is stepping up to support livestock producers by expediting disaster payments when drought and ...

The last patches of unusually dry areas — remnants of drought that plagued counties along the Oregon and Nevada borders in 2024, and almost all North State counties from 2020 to 2023 — were ...

Extreme drought expanded into parts of Los Angeles ... this time of year in downtown LA is about 14.25 inches. In the 2022-2023 wet season, the region had 28.40 inches of rain followed by 25. ...