Dry Weather Update: Extreme Drought Observed in North Alabama

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The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.

Extreme drought is spreading in two areas in North Alabama. Most of Georgia is either abnormally dry or moderately dry, while Northeast Florida is abnormally dry. These are the latest conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Extreme drought is seen in Alabama counties like Lamar, Fayette, Marion and Walker, in the northwest part of the state; along with Lauderdale, Limestone and Madison counties along the Alabama-Tennessee state line.

Most of the rest of northern Alabama is either moderately dry or severely dry, while the southern area of the state is abnormally dry.

Most of the central and northern areas of Georgia is moderately dry, though a few areas are severely dry. These include Twiggs, Wilkinson, Bibb and Jones counties in central Georgia, and Douglas, Paulding, Fulton and Cobb counties in Northwest Georgia. The northern areas of Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Fannin, Union and Towns counties along the North Georgia state line are severely dry as well.

Florida’s dry conditions in the Northeast part of the state start as far west as Gulf, Calhoun and Jackson counties and stretch eastward to the coast, and southward to Citrus, Marion and Volusia counties. Parts of Hardee, Hillsborough, Polk, Osceola, Brevard and Indian River counties in southern Florida are abnormally dry as well.