Planning for, responding to, and recovering from drought
Defining; Forecasting; Climatology; History--Dust Bowl
State of the Climate: Drought 2011.
Based on the Palmer Drought Index, severe to extreme drought affected about 26 percent of the contiguous United States as of the end of July 2011, about the same as last month. About 33 percent of the contiguous U.S. fell in the severely to extremely wet categories.
Ancient Catastrophic Drought Leads to Question: How Severe Can Climate Change Become?
Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.
National Integrated Drought Information System
Associated Press
Texas and parts of several surrounding states are suffering through a drought nearly as punishing as some of the world's driest deserts.
Maps.
