Overall Green alert Drought for Central USA-2021
in United States

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 13 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1015088
Name: Central USA-2021
Countries: United States
Start Date: End of Jun 2022
Duration: 352 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 816829 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Articles: 467 | XAbout casualties: 6 | Last hour: 2

Canadian Wildfires Are Burning Where They Rarely Have Before2023-06-09T01:45+0200.

When Liz Gouari was making plans to move from Africa to join her husband in a rural stretch of northern Quebec, he promised her that Canada was a tranquil nation. But on Wednesday, the couple was among dozens of people sitting in stunned di
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News El Nino arrives, raising extreme weather fears2023-06-09T00:14+0200.

WASHINGTON - An expected El Nino climate phenomenon has arrived, raising fears of extreme weather and temperature records, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/
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Grim outlook as major weather call made2023-06-08T22:27+0200.

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), which uses a different and stricter definition of El Nino, has not declared it yet. But there is every chance it will in the coming months. Whenever it arrives, El Nino is likely to be grim weather r
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NOAA declares El Nino conditions are present, expected to strengthen2023-06-08T22:24+0200.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared the arrival of El Nino, a climate phenomenon that brings warmer sea temperatures near the equator. According to NOAA , El Nino, which occurs every two to seven years on
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (37), WMO (1), INFORM (2),