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U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM)

NOAA and its partners publish regional reports each quarter, summarizing weather, impacts and predictions.

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
USVI/USAPI
Period of Record
2000 - present
File Format
images
text (ascii)
csv
shapefile
kml
Data Type
Land-based Station

Upper Missouri River Basin Drought Indicators Dashboard

This website provides access to drought indices that are used by the Montana Governor’s Drought and Water Supply Advisory Committee (Monitoring Sub-Committee), though it covers the whole Upper Missouri River Basin, not just Montana.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current conditions
Data Type
Land-based Station
Model
Radar

Upper Missouri River Basin Soil Moisture and Snowpack Dashboard

The Upper Missouri River Basin Soil Moisture and Snowpack Dashboard displays interactive maps of station-based soil moisture and snowpack data from the five state mesonets in the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB)—Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Data Coverage
Regional
Period of Record
2023–Present
File Format
images
Data Type
Land-based Station

USGS WaterWatch Streamflow Data

WaterWatch is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) World Wide Web site that displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States.

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
Period of Record
2004 - Present
File Format
images
csv
shapefile
xml
kml
Data Type
Land-based Station