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Prolonged Drought Threatens Western Water Supplies
2013-02-21 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Time is running out to avert a third summer of drought in much of the High Plains, West and Southwest, federal officials warned Thursday. Without repeated, significant bouts of heavy snow and rain in the remaining days of winter, a large part of the country will face serious water supply shortages this spring and summer, when temperatures are hotter and average precipitation is normally low. The drought already ranks as the worst, in terms of severity and geographic extent, since the 1950s....
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Drought forecast to linger, spread in Plains, West
2013-02-21 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climate experts say the drought affecting more than half of the nation will persist in the Great Plains and West through the spring and spread over more of California, Texas and Florida. Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center and the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln released their latest predictions Thursday. Currently, 56 percent of the continental U.S. is covered by some form of drought. That's an...
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The 2012 Drought: Dodging a Bullet?
2013-02-20 17:51:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Illinois An examination of 2012 corn yields relative to trend yields provides evidence of where the drought had its worst impacts. For corn, the lowest state yields occurred in Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. Most states in the Southeast had above-trend yields. Minnesota and North Dakota had yields close to trend. The report was issued by Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. read more
Snowstorm Headed For Heart of Drought Region
2013-02-20 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A major snowstorm is poised to deliver much-needed precipitation to areas from central and southern California to the Rockies and Plains states during the next several days. Parts of Kansas and Nebraska -- ground zero for the worst drought conditions in the U.S. -- may pick up more than a foot of snow by the time the storm ends there late Thursday. While the storm is not expected to deliver blockbuster snow totals, any precipitation -- be it in the form of rain, snow, or the often dreaded "wintry...
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Bennet says Senate is 'playing games' with drought relief
2013-02-15 09:44:57| Agriculture - Topix.net
Trying to win support for a farm bill that includes adequate disaster relief for Colorado's drought-stricken farms, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet this week highlighted the devastating effects of last summer's drought - one of the worst in decades - on Colorado's agriculture industry and rural communities in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing.
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