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Drought Monitor Forum to be in Austin, Oct. 7-8 Drought Monitor authors, users and stakeholders come together every other year to discuss emerging issues and methods in the preparation of the map. |
NDMC Welcomes Visiting Chinese Scientist Jinsong Wang, a researcher from the Institute of Arid Meteorology in Lanzhou, China, is at the NDMC for six months. |
Grant to Bring Climate Change Ed to Teachers NDMC post-doc Donna Woudenberg is a co-investigator on a grant to help bring climate change literacy to teachers. |
Speaking of For more drought information, we recommend the new NIDIS newsletter, a new World Bank report, and YouTube. |
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El Niņo Likely to Bring More Needed Precipitation
A weak El Niņo pattern this fall could bring much-needed precipitation to Texas and perhaps to Western states that are still in lingering drought. Despite the persistence of a large area of severe and extreme drought in south Texas, drought is currently affecting less of the area of the United States than at any time since 2005. | |
TX, CA Feeling Worst of Impacts
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NDMC Takes Message Across Nebraska and World
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Prolonged severe and extreme drought in Texas continues to show its effects, in part by the number of impacts reported for the state. From July 1 through late September, 2009, the Drought Impact Reporter recorded 318 impacts for Texas. California, another large, populous state with ongoing drought, had 122 impacts. Others with more than 20 impacts included Wisconsin, with 25, and Minnesota, with 21.
The NDMC conducted stakeholder workshops in Kearney and Lincoln, Nebraska, and a drought monitoring workshop in the west African country of Mali.