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Southeast Drought Webinar: Conditions, Impacts, Resources, and Outlooks
May
19
Drought conditions cover most of the Southeast region causing significant impacts to agriculture, forestry, and water resources due to persistent dry conditions that date back to fall of 2025. This webinar will address the evolution of this drought, how it compares to previous events, sector-specific impacts across the region, state-level responses, conditions needed to improve and end the drought, and the outlooks for potential changes in conditions. This Southeast Drought Webinar will replace the standing Southeast Monthly Climate Webinar for May.
This webinar will be recorded.
Speakers:
- What Caused the Southeast Drought and How Does It Compare to Other Droughts?: Chris Fuhrmann, Southeast Regional Climate Center
- Current and Potential Impacts for Economic Sectors
- Agriculture Impacts: Pam Knox, University of Georgia
- Forestry Impacts: Andrew Snyder, Southern Area Coordination Center (SACC)
- Water Resources Impacts:
- Haley Stuckey and Aaron Mayhew, NOAA National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District
- Phil Fragapane and Andrew Shull, Duke Energy
- Current and Potential Impacts: State Perspective
- Alabama Impacts: Michael Harper, Alabama Monitoring and Impacts Group (MIG)
- Georgia Impacts: Bill Frechette, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
- Florida Impacts: David Zierden, Florida Climate Center
- North Carolina Impacts: Klaus Albertin, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
- South Carolina Impacts: Jennifer Simmons, South Carolina State Climatology Office
- Tennessee Impacts: Andrew Joyner and William Tollefson, Tennessee Climate Office
- What Is Needed to Get Out of This Drought?: Elliot Wickham, Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
- Outlooks and Future Conditions
- Regional Flood Climatology: Haley Stuckey and Aaron Mayhew, NOAA National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center
- Outlooks: Elliot Wickham, CIROH, NOAA/NIDIS
For more information, please contact Elliot Wickham (elliot.wickham@noaa.gov)
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