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The North American Drought Monitor [7] has been established as a cooperative effort among drought experts in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. to monitor drought on a weekly basis. The site provides North American maps based on a synthesis of multiple indices and local impacts that best represents current drought conditions.
However, the drought broke in mid-June, with close to normal rainfall and only moderate heat thereafter. [30] Because crops were planted in April's moisture, the drought during May did not affect crop yields in regions south of Muskoka. [31] [32] The exception was a yield drag on winter wheat, which begins to ripen in early summer. [33]
As of spring 2021, extreme drought threatened the southern corners of Manitoba and Saskatchewan after an abnormally dry fall and winter. In June of 2023, some parts of the Great Plains saw a drought that according to the Canadian Drought Monitor was a one in fifty year occurrence. [55] [56]
Map shows where air quality conditions are unhealthy 16:10 , Ariana Baio As of Wednesday morning, air quality conditions are worse in the upper midwest region of the United States, according to a ...
Drought conditions in the continental U.S. increased from 12% in June 2024 to 45% in October 2024, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. July was "good," but the dryness really started to ramp up ...
Satellite images show smoke from Canadian wildfires over Western Europe on August 17, 2024. Emissions from the fires are expected to exceed those of every year since tracking began in 2003, except for the historically bad 2023 season. [6] Soot and ash from Jasper landed on the Athabasca Glacier, allowing the glacier to absorb more sunlight ...
Red flag warnings for fire risk have been issued across much of the Northeast, as seen in this map for Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. / Credit: CBS News. The weekly drought monitor came in on Thursday, ...
The GPCC drought index provides SPEI datasets at a 1.0° spatial resolution for limited timescales (1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24, and 48 months). [5] Inputs to SPEI datasets can include high-resolution potential evapotranspiration (PET) from the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) and hourly Potential Evapotranspiration (hPET). GLEAM is a set ...