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Defending Against Drought
With good planning, good management, and good information, farms and ranches
can reduce the impacts of drought. The Department of Agriculture's Joint
Agricultural Weather Facility and the Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS),
National Water and Climate
Center, along with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Interior, and the
National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, helps people prepare for and deal
with drought.
These partnerships make a variety of drought information available on the
Internet. The U.S. Drought Monitor
is updated every Thursday at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time and offers brief overviews
of drought conditions across the Nation, as well as animated maps, compiled by
government and university scientists.
For more detail on drought, the Current Conditions section
offers links to a variety of leading drought indexes; including rainfall,
streamflow, and snowpack reports; soil moisture, climate, and precipitation
data; plus the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin published each Tuesday by the
U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce.
Additional Information
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