National Drought Mitigation Center

Decisions, decisions

Study shows ranchers with drought plans in place make some pivotal moves sooner than those who don’t

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DroughtScape Fall 2020

Read about #drought tweets showing potential to inform drought early warning systems, an NDMC and University of Nebraska-Lincoln partnership, widespread drought leading to hundreds of Drought Impact Reporter submissions and more.

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Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

Changing rates of #drought tweets reflect concern, as well as differences in states’ experiences

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Specialty crop decision calendars available

With input from Midwest farmers, NDMC releases calendars and fact sheets to aid growers of apples, wine grapes and more.

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Drought Risk Atlas gets major update

The DRA shows how a particular location has been affected by drought over time

Read about the update

What is the U.S. Drought Monitor?

Learn about the beginning and evolution of this valuable tool

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The Drought Center helps people, organizations and institutions build resilience to drought through monitoring and planning, and we are the academic partner and web host of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Our capabilities include climatology, social science and public engagement, and we work at all scales, from individual ranches to local, state and tribal government, and countries around the world.