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Related: About this forumSeason Has Changed, but the Drought Endures
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/us/season-has-changed-but-the-drought-endures.html?ref=energy-environmentArid topsoil in August from a farm in Kansas, still one of the states hardest hit by the drought.
Season Has Changed, but the Drought Endures
By JOHN ELIGON
Published: December 6, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Even as the summer swelter has given way to frost, nearly two-thirds of the country remains in a drought, with forest fires still burning, winter crops choking in parched soil and barges nearly scraping the mucky bottoms of sunken rivers.
More than 62 percent of the continental United States is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, according to the weekly Drought Monitor report released on Thursday, compared with just over 29 percent at this time last year.
Save for patches of California, Montana and Wyoming, the drought is expected to persist in most of the dry regions west of the Mississippi River over the next three months, according to the Seasonal Drought Outlook released Thursday by the National Weather Service.
Its not looking very promising right now, said David Miskus, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations climate prediction center.
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Season Has Changed, but the Drought Endures (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Dec 2012
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newfie11
(8,159 posts)1. Looks like one of our fields
Things are not looking good in far western Nebraska panhandle
mindem
(1,580 posts)2. We are really dry in north central Minnesota.
I drive around and see beaver lodges standing in what used to be ponds. Parts of the Mississippi river are so low they are going to be closed to navigation. Not a trace of snow on the ground. The summer was horribly dry too - it's getting scary.
cprise
(8,445 posts)3. Still unfashionable to mention global warming at NYT
They could choke on the dust emanating from their editorial policies.