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Drought Monitoring Map
July 6, 2009 | USGS

USGS has a drought monitoring viewer that you can use to explore drought conditions in the 48 states. “This computer modeling and monitoring method provides continuous drought information over large regions and supplies finer spatial detail than other commonly used drought indicators. The index is now available at two-week intervals across the conterminous 48 States.”


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