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Currently, Grady County is in the extreme drought category, along with several surrounding counties, according to the Oklahoma Mesonet Drought Monitor. Some counties have stepped down to the ...
Known for its glowing swaths of yellow, orange and red, the U.S. Drought Monitor has warned farmers, residents and officials throughout the nation of impending water scarcity every week since 1999
As of Jan. 18, the Oklahoma Mesonet Drought Map shows the southern 2/3 portion of Grady County in the "extreme drought" category. The remaining portion is in the "severe drought" category. While ...
The Oklahoma Mesonet is a network of environmental monitoring stations designed to measure the environment at the size and duration of mesoscale weather events. The phrase "mesonet" is a portmanteau of the words mesoscale and network . The network consists of 120 automated stations covering Oklahoma and each of Oklahoma's counties has at least ...
Percent Area in U.S. Drought Monitor Categories since year 2000. A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The United States' contiguous western and especially southwestern region has experienced widespread drought since about year 2000.
The United States Drought Monitor is a collection of measures that allows experts to assess droughts in the United States. The monitor is not an agency but a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
A dangerous mix of heat, high winds and drought culminated in dozens of wildfires in Oklahoma this week. A massive wildfire in the Texas Panhandle that sparked Monday blew into Oklahoma on Tuesday ...
1984 flood. A cold front that stalled over the Tulsa area on May 26–27, 1984 dropped between 6 and 15 inches (15 and 38 cm) of rain, flooding several parts of the city. The floods killed 14 people and caused $180 million ($528 million in 2023 dollars) worth of property damage. The areas along Mingo Creek in eastern Tulsa and Cherry Creek in ...