2024-2025 Mid-Atlantic Drought Assessment: Building Drought Early Warning Capacity and Resilience

Reeves, Sylvia; Ossowski, Elizabeth; Umphlett, Natalie; Borisoff, Samantha; Woloszyn, Molly; Hasenbeck, Eleanor C.

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2024-2025 Mid-Atlantic Drought Assessment: Building Drought Early Warning Capacity and Resilience

2025
By Reeves, Sylvia ; Ossowski, Elizabeth ; Umphlett, Natalie ; ...
Series: NOAA technical report OAR-NIDIS 006

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Reeves, Sylvia ; Ossowski, Elizabeth ; Umphlett, Natalie ; Borisoff, Samantha ; Woloszyn, Molly ; Hasenbeck, Eleanor C.
Corporate Authors:

National Integrated Drought Information System (U.S.) ; Northeast Regional Climate Center (U.S.) ; University of Colorado Boulder. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CPO (Climate Program Office) ; NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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In 2024, heat and a lack of rainfall led to widespread drought across Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. For some locations, the 2024 drought was the worst the region had experienced in more than two decades. The region felt significant impacts across both natural and managed landscapes, and in multiple sectors including agriculture, mining, public health, and water utilities. In response to these conditions and impacts, NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC), and NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Eastern Region held a special drought webinar in September 2024 to deliver timely, relevant drought information and resources to decision-makers across West Virginia and Ohio, and surrounding states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
Keywords:

Drought Forecasting Droughts Natural Disaster Warning Systems Planning Natural Disaster Warning Systems
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NOAA technical report OAR-NIDIS 006
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https://doi.org/10.25923/kyv1-0b62
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National Integrated Drought Information System|https://ror.org/01fpdvr35 ; Northeast Climate Science Center|https://ror.org/034ywsh12 ; University of Colorado Boulder|https://ror.org/02ttsq026 ; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences|https://ror.org/00bdqav06
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Middle Atlantic States
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