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The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that about half of North Carolina is in moderate to severe drought, with only parts or all of about a dozen of 100 counties having received normal rainfall for the year.
Nearly 20% of North Carolina is under severe drought, with extreme drought conditions setting in for part of Columbus County, according to an update to the state’s drought map released July 11.
The U.S. Drought Monitor released an updated drought map for North Carolina Nov. 9 that shows severe drought conditions have spread to the majority of WNC, influencing the risk of fires throughout ...
Animation of US drought map 2006-2008. The 2006–08 Southeastern United States drought was a crippling drought that struck the southeast of the U.S. Several reasons, including an unusually strong Bermuda high pressure and La Niña in the eastern Pacific Ocean (which causes dry conditions across the southern U.S.) were responsible for the drought. 2007 was particularly dry across the region ...
William S. Powell and Jay Mazzocchi, eds. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006) 1320pp; 2000 articles by 550 experts on all topics; ISBN 0-8078-3071-2; James Clay and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State (University of North Carolina Press, 1971).
During the drought of 2007, both Lake Michie and the Little River Reservoir, Durham's primary sources of drinking water, were severely affected, despite a reduction in daily water use from 37 million US gallons (140,000 m 3) per day to 22.16 million US gallons (83,900 m 3) per day.
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A drought map released Nov. 22, 2023 which placed four more Western North Carolina counties under extreme drought conditions. ... chair of North Carolina's Drought Management Advisory Council.