Mid-Atlantic Drought Assessment and Building Early Warning Capacity Meetings
NIDIS and the Northeast Regional Climate Center hosted a series of virtual meetings in March-April 2025 with approximately 140 participants from state agencies, local government, water utilities, academia, and non-profits in the Mid-Atlantic region. The purpose of these follow-up meetings was to:
Assess the 2024-2025 drought
Understand how the drought impacted communities and the additional information and resources that would have strengthened drought resilience through the drought period
Identify lessons learned and how to integrate drought early warning capacity into a Mid-Atlantic Drought Early Warning System.
The 2024-2025 Mid-Atlantic Drought Assessment discusses the origins of the drought, its evolution and impacts between June 2024 and May 2025, and a review of response activities. It also presents stakeholder-identified opportunities for further collaboration, research, and capacity building for greater drought resilience in the Mid-Atlantic region.