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Extreme Drought Continues To Expand Across Oklahoma
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:41:03 CDT
Oklahoma's latest drought monitor map indicates over half (51 percent) of the state is considered abnormally dry or worse. Evidently the good folks in Cimarron County wanted to share their misfortune with the rest of the state as extreme drought (D4) now covers all or parts of Cimarron, Texas, Dewey, Blaine and Kingfisher Counties.
Our friends at the Oklahoma Mesonet highlighted the severity with this graphic map of Oklahoma.
The photo accompanying this article shows large cracks in the ground in a central Oklahoma pasture.
Nationwide, abnormally hot weather, low humidity and gusty winds have rapidly intensified drought concerns across the Plains states. Extreme drought has expanded in northern New Mexico, eastern Colorado and western Kansas.
Western Texas and eastern New Mexico received less than 0.5 inch of precipitation the past couple of months, and most of this area recorded under an inch the past 90 days.
There is some good news in the short- and long-term precipitation outlook forecast. For June 23-27 the forecast shows a tilt of the odds toward above-normal moisture from the central and southern Plains with below normal temperatures.
The outlook for July-September shows equal chances of normal precipitation for some of the driest areas.
To view the Oklahoma drought map, click here.
To view the latest U.S. Drought Monitor map, click here.
The U.S. Drought Monitor Map is developed through a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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