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16 IMPACTSMAY 2009No droughtAUGUST 2010D1: Moderate droughtMAY 2011D3: Extreme droughtCorrelating the U.S. Drought Monitor with scenes on the ground over the yearsThe rise and fall (again) of thepond on the McVicker farmThis satelliteimage fromGoogle mapswas likely takensummer of 2014,when the pondwas full for abrief period, orpossibly before2010, according toMcManus.The approximatelocation ofthe pond: GPScoordinates:36.695489,-99.632000PHOTOS BY GARY MCMANUSWhat does drought look like? Oklahoma StateClimatologist Gary McManus has been tracking the stateof a spring-fed pond south of Buffalo, Okla., where hefished as a kid. His photos show its journey from 2009through early 2015.The pond was looking flush in May 2009, about a monthafter a good 20-26 inch snowfall event in late March. Asthe drought advanced, the pond dried up for the first andonly time since it was built more than 40 years ago.When ten inches of rain fell last June, the McVickerfarm appeared to have recovered. Then another eightmonths of drought commenced and the waters evaporatedagain, shrinking the shoreline back to where it had beenin January 2014. With the warm, windy days typical ofspringtime around Buffalo ahead, its future appears grim.WHAT DOES DROUGHT LOOK LIKEWHERE YOU LIVE?Drought in Maine looks different from drought in Arizona.NIDIS and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)would like to see what you see when you see droughtin your part of the world. Help us out by being a citizenscientist! You can upload pictures to the Drought ImpactReporter ore-mail to nidis.program@noaa.gov. We’d like tofeature the best shots in upcoming editions of Dry Times.
17JAN 2012D3: Extreme droughtMARCH 2012D2 Severe droughtAUGUST 2012D4: Exceptional droughtOCTOBER 2012D4: Exceptional droughtMARCH 2013D3: Extreme droughtJANUARY 2014D2 Severe droughtJUNE 2014D3: Extreme droughtFEBRUARY 2015D3: Extreme droughtMaps are from the U.S Drought Monitorarchive http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?OKD0: Abnormally dryD1: Moderate droughtD2 Severe droughtD3: Extreme droughtD4: Exceptional drought
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