Posted on December 20th, 2012 in Agricultural Disasters, disasters, Drought, Mitigation and Recovery Planning
Today’s weekly U.S. Drought Monitor update shows that roughly 62 percent of the continental U.S. remains in some form of drought, unchanged from the previous week. That number has been above 60 percent largely since July. Nearly 22 percent of the lower 48 states are in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories. That’s up a half of a percentage point from a week earlier.
This update does not consider the current storm going through the center of the country.
Kim Cassel
