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Only 10% of the state is in moderate drought — mostly in Central Oregon and all east of the Cascades, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Thirty-six percent of the state is abnormally dry.
The snow map has been turned upside down in the Midwest United States this winter, with most of Minnesota in a snow drought while areas from Wichita, Kansas, to Sioux City, Iowa, have been ...
The multiyear drought that has gripped Oregon is at its lowest point since October 2019. As a whole, Oregon's snowpack is 104% of normal while precipitation is 105% of normal.
The drought conditions in Minnesota during 2021 caused serious comparisons to extremely similar dry conditions eighty-five years prior. [ 31 ] Drought significantly expanded in Minnesota in September 2022, which became the driest on record at the Twin Cities .
These droughts continued from the 1940s drought in the Southwestern United States, New Mexico and Texas during 1950 and 1951; the drought was widespread through the Central Plains, Midwest and certain Rocky Mountain States, particularly between the years 1953 and 1957, and by 1956 parts of central Nebraska reached a drought index of −7, three ...
The drought of 1988 ranked as the worst drought since the Dust Bowl, which had occurred more than 50 years earlier. Damages in the United States (as of 2008, adjusted for inflation) were calculated at between $80 billion and almost $120 billion. The state of Minnesota alone saw $1.2 billion in crop losses.
For Maryland, 53% of the state is now under a SEVERE drought with 4% in EXTREME drought. Baltimore saw its last measurable rainfall back on Oct. 1 of 0.35 inches. Baltimore averages 38.94 inches ...
The United States Drought Monitor is a collection of measures that allows experts to assess droughts in the United States.The monitor is not an agency but a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.