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Rains to ease drought in Delta; cold snap for Plains
2013-01-09 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy rains in the Delta and southeast over the next week will provide some relief from the worst drought in over 50 years while a cold snap early next week is posing a threat to the struggling wheat crop in the U.S. Plains States, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday. "That is something that definitely will need to be watched," said Andy Karst, meteorologist for World Weather Inc. referring to a turn to bitter cold weather early next week. Karst said warmer weather this week would...
Drought persists in U.S. Plains; slight improvement in Midwest
2013-01-03 17:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Snowfall in parts of the Plains last week had little impact on historic drought gripping the region, but parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and the Southeast showed slight improvement, weather experts said. A weekly report issued Thursday by a consortium of federal and state climatology experts said that as of January 1, 42.05 percent of the contiguous United States was in severe to exceptional drought, down from 42.45 percent the previous week. Parts of the central Plains received snow in the last...
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