WxMidwest Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Nice Graphics QV, not suprised by the horrible likely yields this year. I may just hijack these graph figures and print them out, rediculous. Check out: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Nice Graphics QV, not suprised by the horrible likely yields this year. I may just hijack these graph figures and print them out, rediculous. Check out: http://www.americanw...ost__p__1654410 Ya I just posted it in there as you were posting. I can't take credit for the graphs though. I got them from a link from one of the posters above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxMidwest Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Ya I just posted it in there as you were posting. I can't take credit for the graphs though. I got them from a link from one of the posters above. No Problem, it seems to be public USDA data. Thanks to those who were able to point out this resource.. For Example, here is Wisconsin: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Crop_Progress_&_Condition/2012/WI_2012.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdrenken Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Areas between the US-36/I-70 corridors of Missouri were upgraded on the last update to 'extreme'. Don't expect decent fall foliage this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropy Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Palmer Drought Severity Index, for the week ending July 21: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Palmer Drought Severity Index, for the week ending July 21: Staing the obvious, but that is ugly. US food prices, US gasoline prices (since automotive ethanol is generally made with corn) and rising prices for US grain exports due to scarcity. Especially if this is a multi-year event, as has happened before. I wonder how much of the readily useable acreage for crops is irrigated, and how much is completely dependent on rainfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csnavywx Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Most of the larger trees have fared well enough here so far, but the smaller trees have begun to take moderate to severe damage and shallow rooted species are starting to lose leaves. I fear another 4-6+ weeks of this will start leading to outright large tree death in these parts. Most of the crops here were doomed a couple of weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN_Lover Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I have been following the Mississippi River and it appears to be rising in some locations now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Latest drought monitor update (July 24) has these amounts of areas in each state in exceptional drought, of course the highest category. Arkansas: 33.6% Georgia: 23.4% Indiana: 18.7% Kentucky: 12.9% Kansas: 9.3% Missouri: 8.1% Illinois: 7.1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Latest drought monitor update (July 24) has these amounts of areas in each state in exceptional drought, of course the highest category. Arkansas: 33.6% Georgia: 23.4% Indiana: 18.7% Kentucky: 12.9% Kansas: 9.3% Missouri: 8.1% Illinois: 7.1% Yes, it truly sucks here right now. It's a little better in my area than central Georgia but not much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PottercountyWXobserver Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 The northeastern side of the drought area should improve quite a bit. I know most places picked up 1-3" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Those drought maps are just crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Palmer Drought Severity Index, for the week ending July 21: That Palmer map is really starting to bear a resemblance to the July 1934 map on a national scale. Maybe not quite there yet but each update has been worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 The northeastern side of the drought area should improve quite a bit. I know most places picked up 1-3" A large portion of that is going to be erased. I hope more people see rain in the drought areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 One of our members took this pic near Indianapolis. Some trees are looking more like October than July. I have seen stories of this happening throughout the areas in the higher end of the drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdrenken Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 83% of Missouri corn crop listed as "poor/very poor" by USDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 The drought maps are completely incorrect for my county in South Carolina. Although it says it isn't extreme here, it hasn't rained much at my house (northern Lexington next to Lake Murray) anything well in about a month. I walk outside and see dust storms and even weeds dying lately. I tried to rescue some tomato plants recently and they can't even make it out there (they're in a young stage though). Anyway, the point I'm saying.. and I have asked the NWS of Columbia about this.. is.. everytime a storm or even rain developes it either a) disappears around the lake or b ) forms far away from it in the southern part of the county. I have yet to have any explanation why precipitation (even snow) decides to disappear 90% of the time around the lake. I do know it started after they lowered it to build a backup dam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mencken_Fan Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Question; should the 1930s drought and heat waves not have a asterisk attached to them? And if not officially, at least in our minds? While the '30s were hot and dry as climate cycles would have dictated, this was exacerbated by widespread poor farming practices. Who doesn't know the Dust Bowl was in part a man-made event? Would the drought and heat waves have been as intense without man's interference? Would I be wrong to say "no"? Perhaps I'm missing something but why do I always see people (amateur, pro, media, et.al.) making comparisons as if the 1930s and 2010s were a level playing field? Does anyone believe atmospheric conditions of the 1930s would produce the same results today? If so, why? Is it that everyone in the weather world, nay, the entire country innately makes a mental adjustment for the difference? While some of us might, I doubt that's a universal practice. Don't we need more extreme atmospheric conditions now to get the same results seen in the 1930s? How would one make an educated guess as to man's contribution to the 1930's climate and hydrology seen in the U.S.? Not an easy question I'm sure but is it irrelevant? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 The drought maps are completely incorrect for my county in South Carolina. Although it says it isn't extreme here, it hasn't rained much at my house (northern Lexington next to Lake Murray) anything well in about a month. I walk outside and see dust storms and even weeds dying lately. I tried to rescue some tomato plants recently and they can't even make it out there (they're in a young stage though). Anyway, the point I'm saying.. and I have asked the NWS of Columbia about this.. is.. everytime a storm or even rain developes it either a) disappears around the lake or b ) forms far away from it in the southern part of the county. I have yet to have any explanation why precipitation (even snow) decides to disappear 90% of the time around the lake. I do know it started after they lowered it to build a backup dam. Well, the map does say that it focuses on the broad scale and that local conditions may vary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinwood Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 D0-1 improved ever so slightly across the CONUS this past week, but extreme/exceptional drought increased. Overall area of CONUS in drought dropped about 1% to 62.91%, but D3-4 drought went up 1.5% to 22.27%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 92.8% of Missouri, 88.3% of Kansas, 83% of Nebraska, 80.6% of Arkansas (44.5% exceptional), 71.6% of Oklahoma, 71.3% of Illinois, 65% of Colorado, 59% of Indiana, 40.9% of Georgia (24.6% exceptional) in the extreme drought category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GramaxRefugee Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Too late for some crops, but recent uptick in rainfall. I even had to pull the lawn mower out of the shed. I figured I was done with that until September. edit: I finished July with 4.44 inches; vast majority on 2 weekends. (We never break a drought on a weekday.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 new update For the CONUS, D3-D4 went from 22.27% to 24.14% and D4 went from 3.01% to 4.21% since last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Most of you know where these are but I think this page makes it much quicker to skim around and view the different areas and they are grouped by state and by region. There is also a drought tendency map a little further down the page as well as a link to all of the crop pages. http://www.daculaweather.com/4_drought_state.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Fact: All categories of drought (except for D4) are at their worst extent nationwide since the drought monitor began 12 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 This latest update saw an increase in both the area of the contiguous US with no drought conditions and unfortunately also an increase in exceptional drought up to 6.26%. The main areas of drought intensification appear to be Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witness Protection Program Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Fact: All categories of drought (except for D4) are at their worst extent nationwide since the drought monitor began 12 years ago. Fact: The temperature at 9am today was the warmest since I began measuring 12 hours ago. O!M!G! The drought is bad, but 12 years is a pretty small window for analyzing climate events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Fact: The temperature at 9am today was the warmest since I began measuring 12 hours ago. O!M!G! The drought is bad, but 12 years is a pretty small window for analyzing climate events. Fozz wasn't making any climate commentary. I think you read too much into his post. Simply pointing out an interesting fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Gonna take a lot of rain to fix this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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