The tropics also heated up, with an above-average number of tropical storms spinning into the ocean. According to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issues a monthly Seasonal Drought Outlook on the third Thursday of each month. The Outlook predicts whether the different levels of drought will get worse, stay the same, or get better within the next three months.
Climate Prediction Center data
This year La Niña returns for the third winter in a row. And storm system will continue to drive warmer-than-average temperatures in the Southwest, the Gulf Coast, and along the Eastern seaboard.
One of the impacts of a drought area is drastically low water levels.
Due to shifting climate change water supplies for communities and ecosystems are being reduced.
According to the Climate Prediction Center, large regions throughout North America are “experiencing decreases in annual rainfall, shifts in the seasonality of precipitation, and an increased frequency of extreme precipitation events.”
