Drought Is Parching The United States From Underground, Too

It ’s been atough summer for droughtin the United States and the former news program is n’t going to make it it any comfortably . Because it turns out that it ’s not just the Earth’s surface that ’s drying up . There ’s a drought befall underneath us too .

https://gizmodo.com/half-of-the-u-s-is-in-now-in-a-drought-1576252758

The map above , which was put together by NASA ’s Earth Observatory , chart currently available groundwater supplies in comparison to the typical amount of groundwater present at this point in the time of year over the last 60 years . Red signifies an usually grim spirit level of groundwater in comparison to the common level , while blue think either intermediate or bedwetter conditions .

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Interestingly , there ’s quite a bite of overlap in the groundwater drouth condition , and the surface drought conditions that we typically supervise when determine a drought ’s inclemency , as you’re able to see by equate the map above with this map of current conditions from the US Drought Monitor :

There are , however , one or two anomalies , mostly in the Pacific Northwest , where despite conditions so dry that wildfires have been a uninterrupted problem , groundwater supply still show as more plentiful than usual . Unfortunately , the reason for the dividing line may simply be due to slower cause of drought underground and not a substantial symptom of embossment .

Map above : Chris Poulsen , National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln , based on information from Matt Rodell , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , and the GRACE skill team

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