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Spring Outlook: Drought
to expand amid warmer
conditions
Flood risk for Upper Midwest; Midwest and Southeast
Focus areas: Weather;
Climate
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UPDATED: March 17, 2022. This news release was updated to reflect the anticipated
moderate flood risk for the James River in South Dakota:
March 17,2022
A look at
nearly empty Grant Lake in California; USA
August 2021. NOAA's 2022 Spring Outlook
predicts prolonged, persistent drought in the West: (George Rose/Getty Images)
NOAA issued its U.S. Spring Outlook today and for the second year in a row,
forecasters predict prolonged, persistent drought in the West where below-average
precipitation is most likely: NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
part of the National
Weather Service
is also forecasting above-average temperatures for most of the
U.S. from the Desert Southwest to the East Coast and north through the Midwest to
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