United States Drought Monitor

Abstract:
The Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin provides weekly U.S. weather data and analyses (including the Palmer Drought Index and Drought Monitor), U.S. crop progress, condition, and state summaries, and international weather maps and crop summaries. The United States Drought Monitor is a weekly map product that successfully integrates information from many parameters such as climate indices and indicators from a wide variety of sources to assess the severtiy and spatial extent drought in the United States.

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