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Since Aug. 20, Islip, located on central Long Island, has received only 0.40 of an inch of rain, compared to a historical average of 7.20 inches or 5% of the recent 30-year normal.
The longest record of days without precipitation in New York City since 1869 is 36 days, according to the National Weather Service. The record was set in the autumn of 1924. The record was set in ...
The nearby City of Brotherly Love also dealt with major dryness during that period. In Philadelphia, September 1884 brought a paltry 0.2 of an inch of rain the entire month. ... Central Park went ...
The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled. Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.
The long Australian Millennial drought broke in 2010. The 2020–2022 Horn of Africa drought has surpassed the horrific drought in 2010–2011 in both duration and severity. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] More than 150 districts in India are drought vulnerable, mostly concentrated in the state of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and its adjoining Chhattisgarh ...
The rain belt reaches roughly as far north as the Tropic of Cancer and as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn. Near these latitudes, there is one wet season and one dry season annually. At the equator there are two wet and two dry seasons, as the rain belt passes over twice a year, once moving north and once moving south. Between the tropics ...
Rain has pushed from the Ohio Valley to the Appalachians as of Sunday afternoon and some of it reached the Atlantic coast into Monday morning. New York City picked up 0.17 inches of rain Sunday night.
Whirlpools formed by intense wind and dry soil after a long period without rain in Barrinha, São Paulo, in October 2014. Rainfall was well below the climatological average in most of Southeast and Southern Brazil after October 2013, and cities such as Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro experienced record heat in February 2014.