🔥 US Drought History 🔥

cc @NOAADrought thank you for the amazing maps, as always!

Interesting how “rainy” Washington is, yet it’s continually one this drought map 🤔

This is an awesome map. I’ve always wanted to see this. Look how consistently the west is in some type of drought. Living in the High Plains I can attest to this.

yep, drought doesn't spare anyone out in KS and NE! still remember living in KC in 2012 ☠️

If Wisconsin's crop looks this good then it's too wet in Iowa

Pretty informative. Biggest question I have is did they only start monitoring drought conditions in 2000?

i think they monitored it in this format specifically starting in 2000, but before that they most definitely did monitor drought the difference being the medium/format with the internet the 90's 2000's. probably prior to the mid 1990's, the only way you could get this data was from advanced weather terminals that were fed NOAA data

Looks about right

Indiana never is hardly

Garden of Eden 🌱