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The dry conditions have led to a drought watch and a warning about the potential for wildfires to grow out of control, according to officials. York County is in a drought watch; red flag issued ...
Following a wet beginning to August in much of the Northeast, precipitation has been well below the historical average due to extended stretches of dry weather. Some locations are on pace for ...
Sep. 21—The Frederick County Division of Water and Sewer Utilities is encouraging customers to reduce their water usage by 10% to 15% in light of the state changing a previously issued drought ...
In late 2007, NIDIS launched the U.S. Drought Portal, or drought.gov, a website that pulls together many federal, state, and academic resources for monitoring drought. [9] [10] In January 2021, NIDIS worked with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information to launch a completed redesigned U.S. Drought Portal. The new website features ...
A banner indicating a red flag warning, flown at a CAL Fire station in 2022. A red flag warning is a forecast warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to inform the public, firefighters, and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildfire combustion, and rapid spread. [1]
Another form of severe weather is drought, which is a prolonged period of persistently dry weather (that is, absence of precipitation). [92] Although droughts do not develop or progress as quickly as other forms of severe weather, [ 93 ] their effects can be just as deadly; in fact, droughts are classified and measured based upon these effects ...
Snow squall warnings, high winds and more bitter cold is in the forecast. Lake-effect storm warnings issued for parts of New York and Pennsylvania through Saturday Skip to main content
A watch or warning bearing the phrase is referred to as a PDS watch or PDS warning. First used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), a national guidance center of the National Weather Service, for tornado watches, the phrase was later applied to other severe weather watches and warnings by the agency's regional