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Drought Monitor: “Flash Droughts” Intensify; Imelda Brings Heavy Rains
Drought stressed corn in Nebraska. Photo: Kristen Ulmer, UN-L Summary Rapidly intensifying “flash drought” — attributed in part to extreme late-summer heat — continued to afflict many areas from the lower Midwest and Mid-Atlantic States to the Gulf Coast. Conversely, heavy to excessive rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda eradicated drought but caused locally catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas and western Louisiana.
Drought Monitor Weekly: Extreme Heat Intensifies ‘Flash Droughts’
Summary Rapidly intensifying “flash drought” — attributed in part to extreme late-summer heat — continued to afflict many areas from the lower Midwest and Mid-Atlantic States to the Gulf Coast. Likewise, an abysmal Southwestern monsoon (to-date) led to increasing drought intensity and coverage in Arizona, while short-term drought persisted across the Hawaiian Islands.
Drought Monitor Weekly: Storm Across East, West; Midsouth Dry
Summary Bitterly cold conditions settled over central portions of the nation, while stormy weather prevailed over parts of the eastern and western U.S. The Southeastern rain afforded localized relief from dryness, while a continuation of the west’s stormy weather pattern brought more drought relief to locales from the Pacific Coast into the Rockies. In contrast, short-term dryness intensified across the southcentral U.S., in particular central Texas.
Rains reduce drought intensity in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor for May 22 released May 24, the active weather pattern persisted across most of the nation, though unfavorably dry, hot weather lingered over parts of the South and Southwest. During the 7-day period ending Tuesday morning, areas of heavy to excessive rainfall provided widespread drought relief across the central and southern Atlantic Coast States and from Texas northward into Montana and the Dakotas.
Dry, hot weather exacerbates drought in Southern Plains, Southwest
During the 7-day period ending May 15, areas of locally heavy rain provided drought relief from the Plains to the East Coast, though much of the Southeast was dry.
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