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Event Date
December 2, 2024

The December Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar provided climate and drought updates and outlook as well as relevant tools and sources to monitor winter conditions in the region.

Event Date
June 3, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Virtual

Join the Southwest Drought and Wildfire Summer Outlook Webinar to get an update on the drought and outlook, as well as a look at the upcoming monsoon and wildland fire season.

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Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.  

Event Date
October 22, 2024

Drought developed or worsened across Oklahoma over the summer. In September, Extreme Drought (D3) expanded over southwest Oklahoma, northwest Texas, and southern Kansas. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s seasonal outlooks predict increased chances for warmer- and drier-than-normal conditions through the end of the year across the Southern Plains and into adjacent states. In fact, parts of eastern Texas that experienced flooding in early summer are now experiencing Moderate Drought (D1), which is likely to worsen in the coming months.

Event Date
September 27, 2024

This special drought webinar provided drought information and resources for West Virginia and Ohio, as well as surrounding states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Topics included the history and evolution of the ongoing drought; current conditions and outlooks for Fall 2024; wildfire risk updates; and ecological impacts as well as impacts across sectors from agriculture to water supply to public health. 

Event Date
September 23, 2024

The September Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar provided a climate and drought update, including current fire outlooks and new research on western U.S. cool season precipitation.

The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center's Day 3–7 Hazards Outlook shows potential hazardous conditions related to precipitation/flooding, temperature, wildfire/winds, and soils/drought. 

The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) produces a Global Unified Daily Precipitation product from 1979-present.

The Global Gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is derived from the CMORPH daily dataset and includes timescales of 1, 3, 6 and 9 months.  The NOAA CMORPH precipitation dataset is a gridded dataset derived from combining numerous microwave-based estimates from low orbiter satellites. 

The Global Gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is derived from the CMORPH daily dataset and includes timescales of 1, 3, 6 and 9 months.  The NOAA CMORPH precipitation dataset is a gridded dataset derived from combining numerous microwave-based estimates from low orbiter satellites. 

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