That's the focus, typically, because it's sort of a less essential use for washing your car or watering your lawn. It was one of the warmest summers on record in much of the region and that low snowpack winter that also precipitated this drought, that's also a climate consequence. Producers JERSEY (50% of normal July rainfall) The largest Channel island went for 23 successive days last month without rain, meaning that it entered a state of “absolute drought”. Desert Island Drought is the second segment of the first episode of the first season of the animated series, Zig and Sharko. – DTN, DTN Livestock Open: Fundamental Support Helps Calm Traders Concerns, DTN Grain Open: Row Crops Higher, Wheat Weaker Overnight, Ag Trade: Biggest Challenge For U.S.-China – Strong Competition, Especially From Brazil, Cover Crop Decision Support Tool Now Available Online, Grain Markets: Weekly Exports Bearish for Corn, Wheat, Neutral for Soybeans, Wheat: Latest USDA Report Adjusts Earlier U.S. Production Estimates, Cleveland On Cotton: “A Big Bunch Of Cotton”, Moving Grain: St. Louis Bi-State Regional Ports Improvement Project Receives $20.8Mln Grant, Shurley on Cotton: Preserve the Best Fiber Quality You Can, Rice Market Update: Export Demand Surges as Harvest Replenishes Supplies, USA’s Export Competitors Have Significantly Upped Their Game – Commentary, Southern Association of Ag Experiment Station Directors Names New Executive Director, Brazilian Soybean Profits to Reach Historical Highs in 2020/21, Texas: Fall CEU Conference, Robstown, Oct. 15, Texas: Ag Pesticide Waste Collection, Lubbock, Oct. 21, Minnesota: Soil Management Summit, Mankato, Dec. 15-16. Have questions, comments or tips? Smoke from Western wildfires is also still wafting over New England. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. During a test, he provokes the anger of a gorilla who cleanly settles his account. "The long-term forecast, September through October, looks like above-normal temperatures, and then September through November looks like below-normal [precipitation] is going to continue,” Miner said. North Carolina Cotton: Defoliation Timing and Chasing This Top Crop – UPDATE, Minnesota: Considerations for Corn Harvest – Podcast, Drought Monitor Weekly: Beta Brings Heavy Rains, Flooding to Southeast, Linder Begins Role as NCGA President – DTN, Bt Corn: Phaseout of Most Hybrids Proposed, Bt on the Chopping Block – EPA Plans Variety Phase Out – DTN, Arkansas Rice: New Breeder Joins Research and Extension Center, California Almonds: Winter Sanitation Beats NOW To The Punch, California Almonds: Your Post-Harvest Check List, Climate Change: Redefining Drought in the Corn Belt, https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/mdo_summary.php, Stephen Censky Returns as CEO of American Soybean Association, Discovery Park of America Moves Closer to Million-Dollar Goal for New Ag Innovation Exhibit, Corn And Soybean Yields: Barchart Ups Its U.S. "Desert Island Drought" (French: "Au sec") is the second episode from season one of Zig & Sharko. No. Henry Epp: So I mentioned the one fire that firefighters got under control recently in Vermont. The Scillies, with a population of about 2,000, already rely on a desalination plant on St Mary’s but it provides nowhere near enough fresh water. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, Areas east of the Rockies saw a mixture of drought improvement and degradation. Send us a message or get in touch with reporter Henry Epp @TheHenryEpp. So these things can happen here. We're getting hotter. “So… so far so good, but the future is definitely concerning, with the drought being a huge factor here.”. The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. But it's also going to be more volatile, less sort of sustained or predictable or consistent.