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Advancing Drought Science and Preparedness across the Nation

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Where is drought this week?

April 10-16, 2019

3.8%

of the US land area.

5.2 million

people are experiencing drought.

Extreme (D3) and Exceptional (D4) drought are currently not affecting the United States.
Severe (D2) drought is present in southeast Alaska, Hawaii, and New Mexico.

Featured Resources:

Drought Status Updates
Two-page status updates on drought conditions, including current conditions, impacts, and outlook:

- California-Nevada Drought Outlook - March 2019
- Southwest Drought Status and El Niño Update – February 14, 2019
- El Niño & the Southwest Drought Status Update – December 6, 2018
- California-Nevada Drought Outlook - November 2018
- Southern Plains Drought Update – October 26, 2018
- El Niño & the Southwest Drought Status Update – October 26, 2018

News & Updates

NIDIS Supported Climate Engine showcased at NASA-DRI Navajo Nation Workshop

On April 9-10 in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Climate Engine team from the Desert Research Institute co-hosted an in-person workshop in collaboration with NASA’s Western Water Applications Office for Navajo Nation...

Presentation at the American Water Works Association’s Sustainable Water Management Conference

NIDIS-hosted Technical Session at American Water Works Association (AWWA)’s 2019 Sustainable Water Management Conference

NIDIS served as a technical content partner for the American Water Works Association’s Sustainable Water Management Conference, to bring the technical expertise of NIDIS and our partners to the forefront...

Thumbnail of a map showing the number of weeks a location had in drought in 2018.

Year in Review: A Look Back at Drought across the United States in 2018

Using data from the 52 weekly U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) maps published during 2018, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) generated annual maps to provide a snapshot...

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Current Conditions for /city/, /state/ (/county/)

RTDroughtGov: What does this winter's good snowfall among many years of dry conditions and exceptional #drought mean for the Colorado River Basin? Join us April 24th for a water supply forecast webinar with speakers from @NWSCBRFC and @USBR. https://

RTClimateMolly: The #Midwest region has been completely free of #drought and abnormally dry conditions for the last 8 weeks! #DidYouKnow that this is the longest stretch of consecutive drought-free conditions since the US #DroughtMonitor began in January

DroughtGov: This week's change map for the US #DroughtMonitor shows that many areas either stayed at the same level of #drought since last week, or improved slightly. Widespread one category improvement was seen in HI, OR, TX, UT, WY and portions of

DroughtGov: #Drought coverage in the US is the lowest it's been on the US #DroughtMonitor since the map began in Jan. 2000, w/ only 3.78% of the country in drought. Despite the record low conditions, areas in the south &amp; western US are still

RTclimate_engine: "Climate Engine maps and time series help scientists and managers see and study earth observation data" by Google Earth. Thanks to funders and supporters ⁦@googleearth⁩ ⁦@DroughtGov⁩ ⁦@blmnv⁩ ⁦@FEWSNET⁩ ⁦@NASA

RTclimate_guy: How @climate_engine helps empower scientists and managers to make better use of Earth observations by @watermapper "Scientists don't want to become part-time software engineers to study the environment. We'd rather just do ou

RTmdettinger: April 10 update of Sierra NV reservoirs+snowpack water storage totals continue close match to water-yr 2017. Reservoirs a bit above normal (except in south) &amp; snow still pretty comparable overall to 2017, but starting to fall. See ht

DroughtGov: On today's US #DroughtMonitor change map, greens reflect widespread #drought 1-class improvement in OR and smaller areas in CA, NV, LA, MS, SC, and NC. Conversely conditions degraded (1-class) over HI, WY, AL, WV, and NY. TX, GA, and FL s

DroughtGov: Today's US #DroughtMonitor shows broad #drought improvement in OR as storms brought the PNW much needed precip while the south/southeast saw a mixture of degradation and improvement such as 2-class improvement in southern TX. D1-D2 cont i

DroughtGov: What does this winter's good snowfall among many years of dry conditions and exceptional #drought mean for the Colorado River Basin? Join us April 24th for a water supply forecast webinar with speakers from @NWSCBRFC and @USBR. https://t.

RTdennistodey: Surprise! Still no drought in the Midwest. Now a record 7 consecutive weeks with nothing in the Midwest Climate Hub region. By far longest period since 2000. Never more than 1 week before. #midwest @DroughtCenter @MidwestClimate @Clima

RTwatermapper: Kicking off the Navajo Nation remote sensing and drought workshop at Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort. Making what used to be hard, easy with collaborators @DroughtGov @NASA_WWAO @climate_engine @EarthOutreach @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat @DR

RThydromet_man: New @climate_MDPI paper: drought indices that use evaporative demand and have multiple time scale option (EDDI and SPEI) best for fire danger in CA-NV. Evaporative demand decomposition shows low humidity (not temperature!) dominant driver

RTmdettinger: Reservoirs-plus-snowpack water storage in western Sierra Nevada same as same date 2017! But becuz much more snowpack at middle elevations this year, snowmelt likely to come more quickly in next couple months (all other things equal). https:/

DroughtGov: On this week's US #DroughtMonitor, D0-D2 cont. in SE AK where precip deficits since Jan 1 are 4-16 in. below normal. Above normal temps have led to early runoff and high streamflow. Hydro-electric power cont. to be impacted and low water

News & Updates

NIDIS Supported Climate Engine showcased at NASA-DRI Navajo Nation Workshop

NIDIS-hosted Technical Session at American Water Works Association (AWWA)’s 2019 Sustainable Water Management Conference

Year in Review: A Look Back at Drought across the United States in 2018

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Drought Impacts Report

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Wildfire Risks

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

State Programs

Regional Climate Centers

NIDIS Drought Early Warning Systems (DEWS)

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Current Conditions for /city/, /state/ (/county/)

News & Updates

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

State Programs

Regional Climate Centers

NIDIS Drought Early Warning Systems (DEWS)

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).