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 | | Research the Drought History of Where You Live. | | | 3) "Even the Grasshoppers were Starving" During the 1934 Drought by W.P. Reeve from Utah History To Go http://www.utahhistorytogo.org/drought.html | | | 2) Drought Reigns in N.M. History by J. Fleck, Albuquerque Journal http://www.abqjournal.com/2000/1mill5-27.htm |
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http://www.42explore2.com/drought.htm
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| | Drought - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was the worst drought in the modern history of the area. | | | This was less severe than the 1936 drought, and resulted in the deaths of only 2.5 million. | | | This drought (part of the overall Sahelian drought) resulted in a military coup, which overthrew the government of Haile Selassie. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought
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| | Drought Mitigation And Drought Outlook Information Guide For 2006 |
| | Drought should not be viewed as merely a physical phenomenon or natural event. | | | There are four different ways that drought can be defined: | | | Due to climatic differences what is considered a drought in one location may not be a drought in another location. |
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http://www.droughtoutlook.com
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| | In general adaptations for dealing with low-water stress (sometimes called drought resistance) can be seen as falling into one of three categories--drought tolerance, "desiccation avoidance," and drought avoidance. | | | Drought tolerance involves adaptations that allow organisms to tolerate a lower availability of water. | | | Droughts may be a force of nature, but coping with them is singularly a task for humans. |
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| | BOM - Australian Climate Extremes |
| | Moreover, apart from crop failure and stock losses, droughts set the scene for other disastrous phenomena, such as fires, dust-storms, and general land degradation. | | | Indeed, probably the most damaging type of drought is when one or two very dry years follow several years of generally below-average rainfall. | | | Drought is also part and parcel of life in Australia, particularly in the marginal areas away from the better-watered coasts and ranges. |
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http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/drought.htm
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| | Stormfax® - Drought Guide |
| | Becoming familiar with droughts can help you better understand what kind of risks you are facing. | | | A socioeconomic drought is a condition when the physical water supplies are so low that they negatively affect the community where the drought is occurring. | | | A drought is one weather hazard that is often underestimated, for two reasons. |
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http://www.stormfax.com/drought.htm
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| | Drought Forum - GardenWeb |
| | Posted by: gottadance z5IL on Sun, Apr 16, 06 at 15:56 | | | Posted by: gottadance z5IL on Sun, Apr 16, 06 at 15:40 | | | his forum is meant for the discussion of gardening during drought conditions--choosing plants that can survive droughts, dealing with water restrictions, etc. |
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http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/drought
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| | Natural Hazards Causes and Effects Lesson 7 Drought: University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Center |
| | About half of the population of four million lived in the Sahelian zone. | | | Reconstruction should be viewed as an opportunity to accelerate development work. | | | For this reason, it is important that persons living in marginal or semiarid areas try to learn about the history of drought in a particular region and use this knowledge as a rule of thumb in predicting future drought periods. |
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http://dmc.engr.wisc.edu/courses/hazards/BB02-07.html
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| | ABC Rural Online - Drought Coverage 2002 - 2003 |
| | Dying river redgums in lap of the Gods | | | Farmers finances appear to be holding up reasonably well despite one of the worst droughts on record. | | | Down stream from Pooncarrie, taken in October when flows down the river were stopped. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/drought2002
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| | Drought Strategies - BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands |
| | Link to agencies who devote some of their resources to drought strategies. | | | The following factsheets will be of help during a drought. | | | Drought Related Livestock Poisoning by Weeds by North Dakota State University |
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http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/drought
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| | EO Library: Drought: The Creeping Disaster |
| | One of the worst droughts of the Twentieth Century occurred in the Horn of Africa in 1984 and 1985. | | | Agricultural drought occurs when there is insufficient soil moisture to meet the needs of a particular crop at a particular time. | | | Because of the various ways drought is measured, an objective drought definition has yet to be produced upon which everyone can agree. |
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/DroughtFacts
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| | drought - Columbia Encyclopedia article about drought |
| | He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous. | | | Drought is thought by some to have caused migrations of early humans. | | | The house occupied by the family was on the slope of a mountain, and after a long drought there was a terrible tempest which not only raised the river to a great height but loosened the surface of the mountain so that a great landslide took place. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/drought
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| | SD : Environment : Rainfall Variability and Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| | The worst droughts were those of the 1910s, which affected east and west Africa alike. | | | Worst drought years correspond to 1983 and 1984, but severe drought were also recorded in 1972, 1973 and 1977. | | | Low values, however, do not necessarily lead to drought, nor is drought necessarily associated with low rainfall. |
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http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/EIdirect/EIan0004.htm
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| | Living With Drought |
| | This does not indicate that severe drought regularly and predictably recurs every 18 years; intervals between severe droughts have varied from four to 38 years. | | | Because people use water in so many different ways, there is no universal definition of drought. | | | Examples of each of these types of drought are shown in the large picture below. |
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http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/livedrought.shtml
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| | Are Chemtrails Causing Drought? |
| | I asked myself who would be the most affected by the drought, be the most concerned, and be the most likely to join together to form coalitions. | | | This is supposed to be an article on drought and it's possible causes and what we can do to hopefully turn it all around. | | | My personal gut feeling is that they are making a continued drought sound plausible so that when farmers begin to lose their land, water rationing begins and possible famine ensues, it will seem as though it was all a natural occurrence. |
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http://www.rense.com/general21/dr.htm
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| | US Drought Monitor |
| | This summary map is based on a multi-index drought classification scheme. | | | This is marked by the H Impact line for North Carolina in particular. | | | This has led to an expansion and joining of the extreme drought (D3) conditions that continue to affect the region. |
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http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html
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| | Lawn watering restrictions for Tampa Bay Area |
| | Water use and fire restrictions are in the works as "the worst drought any of us have ever seen" continues. | | | Water may be scarce, but rules flow freely | | | Water officials are teaching schoolchildren about conservation through a spoof of the Three Little Pigs. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/News/webspecials/drought/default.shtml
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| | Natural Hazards.org: Investigate: Drought |
| | From spring through early fall, plants require water for growth. | | | Basically, a drought occurs when more water is taken out of a reservoir than is added to it. | | | In areas where most of the winter precipitation falls in the form of snow, the winter season is effectively a drought. |
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http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/drought
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| | Drought Initiative |
| | This recommendation led to a Memorandum of Understanding between WGA and several federal agencies which was signed in early 1997. | | | Drought is a normal part of the climate for virtually all regions of the United States, but is of particular concern in the West, where any interruption of the region's already limited water supplies over extended periods of time can produce devastating impacts. | | | However, it is multi-year drought events that are of the greatest concern to water planners, natural resource managers, and government policy makers. |
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http://www.westgov.org/wga/initiatives/drought2.htm
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| | Environment Writer -- Drought |
| | Droughts, in fact, have been responsible for the end of numerous civilizations in the course of human history. | | | The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930’s, which lasted a decade and ruined tens of millions of acres of farmland, is the benchmark against which others are judged. | | | Get far into the subject of drought and you will soon discover there are many ways of defining a drought and how bad it is. The many different drought indexes in use reflect this phenomenon: Drought can be lack of snow and rainfall. |
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http://www.nsc.org/ehc/ew/disaster/drought.htm
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| | Drought: A Paleo Perspective -- Home Page |
| | This Web site was designed to explain how paleoclimatic data can provide information about past droughts and about the natural variability of drought over timescales of decades to millennia. | | | The major drought of the 20th century, in terms of duration and spatial extent, is considered to be the 1930s Dust Bowl drought which lasted up to 7 years in some areas of the Great Plains. | | | Rainfall records used to evaluate drought extend back 100 years, and are too short to answer these questions. |
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_home.html
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| | azcentral.com special report |
| | Diverting flow from rivers two or three states away. | | | A year after storm-swollen rivers filled reservoirs and sent water gushing down the lower Salt and Gila rivers for the first time in decades, Arizona is drying up again. | | | This was supposed to be the year when a devastating drought forced state lawmakers to join hands with Gov. Janet Napolitano and pass legislation that ensured a long-term water supply for Arizona. |
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http://www.azcentral.com/specials/drought
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| | USGS, Drought Watch - Definitions |
| | A partial drought is a period of at least 29 consecutive days, the mean daily rainfall of which does not exceed 0.01 inches. | | | Because the definition of a drought can be a complex issue, a collection of other definitions of drought follows. | | | Note that particular definitions may not be appropriate for individual circumstances, and that some of the definitions may be quite location specific. |
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| | EO Data and Images: Drought and Vegetation Monitoring |
| | Drought is by far the most damaging of all natural disasters. | | | Africa suffered its worst dry-spell of the century in 1991-92 when drought covered a region of 2.6 million square miles (6.7 million square km) and affected about 24 million people. | | | Drought is defined in three ways: an extended period of below normal rainfall, a long term depletion of groundwater, or the stunting of vegetation growth due to a lack of water. |
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Drought
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| | American Red Cross |
| | Landscape with plants that are heat and drought tolerant and that do not require much water to live. | | | Never pour water down the drain when there may be another use for it. | | | Try to do one thing each day that will result in saving water. |
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http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_582_,00.html
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| | Lesson Plans - Living Through a Drought |
| | Ask students if they have ever lived in or visited a place that was experiencing a drought. | | | Define and discuss drought (a good definition can be found online in the Columbia Encyclopedia). | | | How can students apply what they have learned to their own lives? |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/drought.html
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| | Drought in Washington State WA, Office of Drinking Water water system management WA State Dept. of Health |
| | Drought and Drinking Water (PDF 1994 KB) special Drought edition of Water Tap 2001 | | | This page is provided as the archive of the 2005 Drought activities. | | | On March 10, Governor Christine Gregoire authorized the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to declare a statewide drought emergency, based on the extremely low snow pack in the mountains and record-low flows that are being seen in many rivers across the state. |
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| | Governor declares drought emergency |
| | And environmentalists complain the state prioritizes who gets water during rationing based on who has held their permits the longest, not who needs it the most. | | | And there is not going to be enough water to go around," Gregoire said. | | | During a drought emergency, the state has increased authority to grant water transfers and permits to access wells and other water sources otherwise forbidden. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/215539_drought11.html
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| | Environment Agency - Drought - what's happening? |
| | This page will be updated each week, describing the effects of the drought on the environment, water supplies and agriculture. | | | Weather: May Day started with an early splash of rain for most parts, but the sun came out for the afternoon. | | | You are in: Subjects > Water Resources > Drought > Drought - what's happening? |
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http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/waterres/1014767/1131486
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| | Florida Drought |
| | No single definition of drought works for all circumstances, so people rely on drought indices to detect and measure droughts. | | | The product will be refined over time as they find ways to make it better reflect the needs of decision-makers and others who use the information. | | | The Keetch-Byram drought index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. |
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http://www.floridadisaster.org/bpr/EMTOOLS/florida_drought_center.htm
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas Amazon drought emergency widens |
| | Witnesses say rivers and lakes have dried up completely, leaving behind kilometres of sand and mud. | | | Brazilian government meteorologists, however, have said the drought is the result of unusually high temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, that have also been linked to this year's devastating hurricanes. | | | Lakes such as the Anama have been drying up in the drought |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4344310.stm
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| | Drought in Georgia |
| | Georgia EPD Will Not Make Flint River Drought Declaration This Year - pdf | | | Abnormally dry conditions return to Georgia - pdf | | | Go to the survey and let us know what you think about this site. |
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http://interests.caes.uga.edu/drought
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| | NOAA Drought Information Center |
| | Drought Calculator — NOAA calculates amount of rainfall needed to end droughts around the country. | | | Click here to directly to NOAA's Drought Termination and Amelioration. | | | — (assessment of recent conditions and drought status) |
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http://www.drought.noaa.gov
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| | Drought.ColoState.edu |
| | As a world-leader in natural resources, climate studies and agriculture, Colorado State University is at the forefront of research related to the impacts of drought and fire on people and the environment. | | | Responding to state and national needs, the University has focused this wide-ranging expertise on increasing the drought knowledge base in order to provide critical information to government leaders, businesses and individuals as they plan for and manage drought events. | | | Additionally, our ongoing outreach and education efforts continue to provide much needed information to the public on topics ranging from water saving tips for home gardeners to fire protection and prevention information for residents of our mountain communities. |
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http://www.drought.colostate.edu
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| | Drought |
| | The Colorado River system is facing the worst drought on record. | | | The Water Authority and its member agencies adopted a Drought Plan to weather the drought. | | | Thanks largely to community compliance with drought restrictions, the Las Vegas Valley is continuing a trend of declining water use. |
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http://www.snwa.com/html/drought_index.html
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| | Welcome to Mid Kent Water |
| | Mid Kent Water is now able to provide its customers with water butts at a further £10 discount. | | | Gas Boiler Insurance Covers you against failures to your gas boiler, the most costly part of your central heating system. | | | The water companies in the South of England have joined forces with the Environment Agency to help beat the drought. |
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http://www.midkentwater.co.uk
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| | Montana Drought Info |
| | measures moisture supply in the short term across major crop-producing regions and is not intended to assess long-term droughts. | | | is a drought index for fire potential assessment representing the net effect of evapotranspiration and precipitation in producing cumulative moisture deficiency in deep duff and upper soil layers. | | | for climate, drought, stream flow, Palmer Drought Severity Index, Soil Moisture, etc. |
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http://nris.state.mt.us/Drought
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| | NJDEP New Jersey Drought Information |
| | During non-business hours, you may leave a message which will be returned as soon as possible. | | | NOTICE: The Drought Hotline, at 1-800-4-ITS-DRY or 1-800-448-7379 (Outside NJ at 1-609-633-0560), is now operational. |
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| | USGS, Drought Watch - Eastern U.S. |
| | For information on drought and water resources throughout the United States, please visit WaterWatch | | | Palmer Drought Index map for the United States | | | Drought information from the Mid-Atlantic River Forecast Center |
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| | The Texas Drought |
| | Helping landscapes through a drought, Texas A&M University Horticultural Sciences Department | | | Drought conditions have resulted in extreme losses to Texas agriculture and those families and industries associated with it. | | | This Web site was developed by the faculty of Texas Cooperative Extension and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to provide information and alternatives that might reduce further losses to the state's agricultural industry and to our homes and gardens. |
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http://agnews.tamu.edu/drought
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| | Drought monitoring and crop yield forecasting |
| | Quantification of drought, crop growth and the estimation of irrigation needs for Africa and Europe, based on images from the METEOSAT geostationary satellite. | | | Because your browser does not support frames you can't view our site. | | | On a monthly basis, EARS ltd. (environmental analysis and remote sensing) updates this early warning site. |
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| | Drought Conditions |
| | Drought statements were issued recently by the following NWS Forecast Offices: | | | Map and text specifying drought conditions in the U.S. NOAA's Drought Information Center | | | Site is a collaborative effort among Federal and non-Federal agencies to provide a centralized source of drought information |
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http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/drought
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| | North Carolina Drought Information |
| | Current Streamflow Conditions (from the USGS Water Watch) | | | Drought Indicator Wells (from the North Carolina Division of Water Resources) | | | Current Drought Conditions (from the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council) |
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http://nc.water.usgs.gov/drought
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| | Drought Information Center |
| | Select from the sidebar to view drought information. | | | Click on the map for a printable version. |
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http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/subject/hotopics/drought
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| | Climate Prediction Center |
| | 6-10 Day Outlook, 8-14 Day Outlook, 30 Day Outlook, 90 Day Outlook, U.S. Hazards Assessment, Drought Assessment | | | U.S. Hazards Assessment, Drought Assessment, ENSO Diagnostic Discussion, Climate-Weather, Expert Assessments Products, Expert Assessments Index, Outlooks Products, Outlooks Index, Monitoring and Data Products, Monitoring and Data Index, El Niño/La Niña, Stratosphere, Pacific Islands, Africa, Partnerships, Outreach, CPC Information, Contact Us |
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http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.html
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| | DRBC - Drought Information for Kids |
| | WHAT ABOUT PLANTS AND WILDLIFE DURING A DROUGHT? | | | WHAT CAN YOU DO TO SAVE WATER DURING A DROUGHT? |
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http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/drought/kids_droughtinfo.htm
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