Thursday, May 31, 2007

Drought worsens, widens in the South

Drought continues to widen and deepen in the South.

Drought Monitor Maps, 5/24/07 vs. 5/31/07

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The current drought monitor map, based on NOAA data and presentations released by the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility, rates much of Alabama and Georgia as extreme and the severe range has also expanded in both central Mississippi and south-central Tennessee.

We saved last week’s Weather Bank drought monitor map for comparison to this week’s map, which was released this morning. Click here to compare the 2 maps.

The range included in the stage 1 drought classification has also expanded over a wider area of South Carolina and into crop production areas in south-central Kentucky and the southern half of North Carolina.

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