This week’s CMOR photo is from Bedford County, Tennessee.

“Ponds are dried up. Having to do city water at barn and creeks are low.”

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A warming Paris region faces a €2.5bn bill from future drought crises.

Severe drought episodes could cost Paris and its surrounding areas up to €2.5 billion in economic damage by the end of the century, a report published Monday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250317-a-warming-paris-region-faces-a-25bn-bill-from-future-drought-crises?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Dangerous Climate ‘Whiplash’ Is Impacting Cities Globally, Report Finds https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-whiplash-cities-drought-flooding.html

Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: report https://phys.org/news/2025-03-spain-severe-droughts.html

Unpredictable weather leads to mixed results for Spanish harvest https://www.diningandcooking.com/1960048/unpredictable-weather-leads-to-mixed-results-for-spanish-harvest/ #climate #drought #harvest #report #Rioja #spain #Spanish #SpanishWine #weather #Wine

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on February 2, 2025

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Feb28_birds_and_cats/2025feb02_junco_IMG_2769c.html

One of my favorite Junco color schemes

Evaluating Drought Risk Of The Red River Of The North Basin Using Historical And Stochastic Streamflow Upstream From Emerson, Manitoba
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20255002 <-- shared link to USGS publication
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https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis <-- USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database - USGS water open data for the Nation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #deterministic #waterbalance #stochasticweather #model #modeling #RedRiver #USA #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #waterresources #streamgage #NorthDakota #Manitoba #streamflow #flood #flooding #watersupply #agriculture #farming #ecology #drought #extremeweather #meteorology #basin #subbasin #risk #hazard #gauge #flow
@USGS

Oklahoma | U.S. Drought Monitor | March 13, 2025
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?OK

As of this week, more than 99% of New Mexico is in abnormal dryness or drought. Inadequate snowpack is affecting the state, with its basins reporting very low snow water equivalent for this time of year. All areas of New Mexico except the northeast corner of the state have reported below-average amounts of precipitation over the past few months.

Drought expanded in parts of the Southwest, South, and Eastern US this week on the US #Drought Monitor, even as it eased in adjacent areas. Drought coverage decreased slightly to 43.59%, a drop of 0.82 points. Soil moisture is low in parts of the country as planting season nears.

#DroughtMonitor #USDroughtMonitor

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx

Monitor de Sequía de los Estados Unidos

Mapa publicado: marzo 13, 2025

ICYMI: The February 2025 drought climate and impacts summaries are now available. https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/DroughtSummaries.aspx

How dry or wet are your local conditions? Share reports to CMOR: https://go.unl.edu/cmor_drought

Most U.S regions saw a mix of conditions this week. The Northeast saw mostly improvements, with areas of degradation in New York and West Virginia. An area of improvement occurred in Hawaii.

See more change maps: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx

US Drought Monitor 3-13-25

For the 50 states and Puerto Rico, the US Drought Monitor shows 36.54% in moderate drought or worse, compared to 37.25% last week.

Drought depleted the Great Lakes in February, in addition to other lakes and reservoirs across the country.

Read more in the February drought impacts summary: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c4658af69dbe4c498339ec5602e20fbb

Drought intensified across parts of the central and western U.S. in February.

Read more in the February drought climate summary: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6dbd676b5a824a14a56b6bfa78380421

Good news! Drought in Germany has really gone away for 1.80m depth and plant-available water 25cm, see images: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937

But something is off with NASA'S #drought monitor GRACE, showing half the country at 2% wetness at all depths, = very dry @petergleick ? https://nasagrace.unl.edu
All of East Europe looks very bad too.
From their government's website, I know Austria is really in a bad state, with most of the country in wildfire alert due to drought. So for Eastern Europe, GRACE is possibly correct.

‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/global-weirding-climate-whiplash-hitting-worlds-biggest-cities-study-reveals #Naturaldisasters #Extremeweather #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Flooding #Drought

This week’s CMOR photo is from Dade County, Missouri.

“I believe runoff from surrounding crop fields draining into pasture to be very low for nearly three years. Stagnant water unable to move is scummy already.”

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