San Angelo, April 24 You are invited to a Drought Planning Tools Workshop, April 24, in San Angelo, TX, presented by the NDMC and the Texas AgriLife Center of Texas A&M. For more information please call 325-653-4576.
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NIDIS Wants You! A workshop June 17-19 in Kansas City, MO, will bring together producers and users of drought information.
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About DroughtScape DroughtScape is the quarterly newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC). The NDMC’s mission is to reduce vulnerability to drought, nationally and internationally. Please email the editor with ideas: droughtscape@unl.edu |
The National Drought Mitigation Center, established in 1995 with sponsorship from agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has a national mandate to help reduce vulnerability to drought. We are based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the School of Natural Resources. |
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Winter Sees Little Change in U.S. Drought
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News Stories Reveal Array of Mitigation Strategies A survey of mitigation strategies from archived news articles reveals that:
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Sea Surface Temperatures Can Help Predict Drought
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Images from our workshops in Eastern Montana and images from a presentation in Western Nebraska. At right, a granary in Eastern Montana. |
With La Niña influences to be in place through early summer, conditions may lead to expansion and intensification of drought over west Texas, New Mexico, and Southern Florida. Improvements are possible in the West and Mid-Atlantic regions. 
Guest author Vikram M. Mehta from The Center for Research on the Changing Earth System looks at how drought may be related to ocean patterns such as the Tropical Atlantic Gradient, or TAG, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO, even in areas such as central North America.