Weather risks are a fact of life for farmers. But in 2024, extreme weather took a financial toll on Montana’s agricultural industry. As a result of events like drought, wildfires, and freeze nearly ...

For the most part, drier weather occurred elsewhere. Recent improvements to snowpack in northeast Nevada, Idaho and southwest Montana led to localized improvements to drought conditions. Meanwhile, to ...

For over 50 years these statements have reported on the extent and severity of dry conditions across Australia through drought maps showing areas of rainfall deficiencies. The Drought Statement ...

M​ore bad news is in store for much of the western US: drought is likely to be a growing worry as we move through the spring months. D​rought conditions are expected to worsen across large sections of ...

The drought-affected area covers all of Modoc County, most of Siskiyou County and a portion of Lassen County, according to the Drought Monitor map ... Utah and Montana, but drought or abnormal ...

Drought conditions are expected to worsen across large sections of the Central and Southern Rockies and Plains and also in the Southeast, as shown in the yellow shading on the map below.

The U.S. Drought Monitor released a map Thursday showing Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties all in "extreme" drought. That same rating also applied to portions of Ocean, Burlington and ...

Flooding is unlikely to be a major concern in western and central North Dakota in the spring, though concerns about possible ...

Currently, the Midwest is 29% in moderate drought and 27% abnormally dry. About 27% of corn production acres are in some form of drought. The U.S. Monthly Drought Outlook shows drought persisting ...

Drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the amount of available water is insufficient to meet our normal use. Drought is not simply low rainfall; if it was, much of inland Australia would ...