Keep Up On Drought Conditions With This Updated Resource

By NOAA|January 23, 2021

Want to keep up with changing weather patterns? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) has launched the redesigned U.S. Drought Portal to better serve stakeholders, decision makers, and the public.

The new website features updated content and new interactive architecture designed to provide actionable, shareable information and easy-to-understand graphics describing current drought conditions and forecasts by city, county, state, zip code, and at watershed to global scales. The portal also aggregates and presents weather impact data for economic sectors such as agriculture, energy, water utilities, and recreation using interactive maps and data that don’t exist anywhere else.

“The new state of the art U.S. Drought Portal provides numerous decision support resources to enable communities and economies across the U.S. in efforts to strengthen their resilience to drought,” says Veva Deheza, Executive Director of NIDIS. “Whether you are looking for current conditions in your county or needing to make water management decisions, the new U.S. Drought Portal is designed to be a one-stop shop for data, decision-support products, resources and information.”

Need to find the latest drought status? Head over to the Data and Maps section, where you can get the latest drought conditions, impacts, and outlooks and as well as maps for temperature and precipitation, wildfire updates, and soil moisture conditions, and more.

Learn more about the portal, including new features, here.