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Drought Update

Drought Update. Dealing with Drought Workshop February 12, 2013. Droughts in the Past. From: A thousand years of drought and climatic variability in Kansas: Implications for water resources management by Anthony L. Layzell, KGS Open File Report 2012-18.

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Drought Update

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  1. Drought Update Dealing with Drought Workshop February 12, 2013

  2. Droughts in the Past From: A thousand years of drought and climatic variability in Kansas: Implications for water resources management by Anthony L. Layzell, KGS Open File Report 2012-18

  3. Kansas Conditions

  4. Drought Outlook

  5. Precipitation

  6. Vegetative Conditions

  7. Additional Moisture Needed

  8. Spring Outlook

  9. Early Summer Precipitation Outlook

  10. Why? Transition in the ENSO Currently neutral ENSO signal Expected El Niño hasn’t developed Neutral conditions to continue for the Spring K-State Research & Extension

  11. SST Outlook: NCEP CFS.v2 Forecast Issued 3 February 2013 The CFS.v2 ensemble mean (black dashed line) predicts below-average SSTs during N. Hemisphere winter 2012-13, and a gradual increase in SST anomalies into summer 2013.

  12. Sites to Remember Climate Prediction Center Forecasts http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/ Kansas Geological Survey http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/Publications/2012/OFR12_18/index.html USDA Joint Agricultural Weather http://www.usda.gov/oce/weather/index.htm National Weather Service http://weather.gov Weather Data Library http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/wdl

  13. Mary Knapp Weather Data Library 1703 Throckmorton Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 PH: 785 532-7019 E-mail: Mknapp@ksu.edu URL: http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/wdl/

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