CATCH THE BUZZ – Check Out The Drought, Temperature And Rainfall Reports For...
The National Water and Climate Center produces this weekly report in cooperation with the National Drought Mitigation Center and other Federal agencies. The report focuses on snowpack, precipitation,...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Long-Term Response to Water Scarcity in California
by Steven Wallander, Marcel Aillery, and Glenn Schaible California has a highly variable climate, and severe droughts occur there with considerable frequency. The current 4-year drought is, by almost...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – El Nino Didn’t Fix California’s Drought
California’s drought still remains, and the worst of it is still unchanged from last week. This follows a continuing trend of dry conditions returning to the West Coast. At the beginning of winter,...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – California’s Drought Not Over, And It’s Spreading East This...
Harris-Mann Climatology’s annual spring and summer outlook predicts more trouble for California and other parts of the West that have been locked in a 4-year-plus drought. The company also predicts the...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Saudi Firm Buys Up California Water Rights. They Have...
By Sara Jerome A company from Saudi Arabia is buying up water rights and setting up farming operations in the drought-stricken Southwest, ushering in a new round of controversy about the merit of...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Drought is building in places other than California
Rebecca Lindsey A checkerboard of drought conditions has developed across the United States east of the Rockies between spring and summer 2016. Since March, the total drought-affected area of the...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – A new University of Illinois study puts climate change...
URBANA, Ill. – Scientists the world over are working to predict how climate change will affect our planet. It is an extremely complex puzzle with many moving parts, but a few patterns have been...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – California’s Drought Restrictions on Wasteful Water Habits...
Sprinklers spray water on lawn of an east Anaheim home during mid-day on April 3, 2015. New water-wasting restrictions could become permanent in the state. (Photo by Joshua Sudock) By: Steve Scauzillo...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – 6 of 10 Top Honey Producing States Now Under Drought...
By: David Montgomery The Pew Charitable Trusts Research & Analysis Stateline AUSTIN, Texas — Less than eight months after Hurricane Harvey pelted the Texas Gulf Coast with torrential rainfall,...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – The Dry, Arid West Is Moving East.
By: Christina Cooke from https://civileats.com/ In 1878, noted geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell observed that the 100th Meridian, the longitudinal line that slices north-to-south through the...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – La Nina is dead. Long live El Nino? Is El Nino Coming Back?
Wildfires charge across western Oklahoma in April 2018 – © Oklahoma State University Ag Communications Services Stillwater, OK 74078 By Bloomberg La Nina is dead. Long live El Nino? A weather...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Droughts are Gripping Large Areas from Australia to South...
Alan Harman Stick a pin in a global map and you’re likely to strike drought. In a rare combination, droughts are gripping large areas from Australia to South Africa, North America, Asia, Russia,...
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