Latest News About Drought Monitor

Updated 2026-05-27 14:04

I don’t have live access to the latest drought monitor updates in this moment. Here’s where you can find the most current information and what to look for:

If you’d like, I can tailor a quick snapshot for your area (Prague, CZ) or provide a summary of how the U.S. drought monitor methodology works and how to interpret the D0–D4 classifications. Also, I can pull in the most recent summaries from those sources and present them concisely with direct citations if you want.

Sources

Drought Monitoring - National Weather Service

The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Wilmington, NC provides official weather forecasts, warnings, observations, past weather, and general weather information for Southeast North Carolina and Northeast South Carolina.

www.weather.gov

U.S. Drought Monitor - USDA Climate Hubs

The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4). It is produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),...

www.climatehubs.usda.gov

News

These new enhancements to the U.S. Drought Monitor are supported by the Drought Risk Management Research Center, a partnership between the drought center and the National Integrated Drought Information System. The new products enable 121 WFOs and 12 RFCs covered by the U.S. Drought Monitor to show people exactly how drought affects their area. Accompanying statistics and time series graphs, available for some time now, help round out the picture. … The National Drought Mitigation Center at the...

drought.unl.edu

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