It ’s now just as likely for an area of the U.S. to be in drought as not .
This drouth map exhibit which one-half of the country is presently in drought and by how much was put together by the U.S. National Drought Monitor , who points out that not only is the scale unusual , it ’s also the severeness .
15 % of the land is in the middle of an extreme to an exceptional drouth ( all those scarey cerise blotch you see on the function ) , including California , where the intact state is currently affected .
But the rigor of this twelvemonth ’s drought is n’t the only problem — it ’s also the drouth from the previous years and the days to come in . The outcome can easily heighten from twelvemonth to year , an issue that is becoming steady more evident in the Midwestern Plains and the Southwest .
What about your domain of the country ? dog your locale on the function , and say us any account about water shortages or drought weather you ’ve seen in your region .
Image : U.S. National Drought Monitor / NASA EO .
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