| Event: | DR Drought |
| Number: | 2024-000255 |
| Country: | USA United States |
| Location: | TX, OK, KS, MT, ID, WA, MS, PA, MD, DE, NJ |
| Date (YMD): | 2024-1-1 |
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| Duration: | 366 |
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| Information Source: | NOAA NCEI Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters |
| Comments: | Drought conditions impacted many Southern, Eastern and Northwestern states. This drought was more transient in its impacts over numerous states throughout the year. The states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas had some of the highest losses to crops from the effects of drought and heat. As the drought changed in intensity and duration throughout the year across several regions of the country. Several Northwestern states also had costly impacted to agriculture including Montana, Idaho and Washington. Numerous southern and eastern states from Mississippi through Pennsylvania also experienced crop impacts that were most severe in the Summer months. The drought conditions also strengthen through the Fall and Winter months impacting Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. It was also one of the hottest years on record for a number of these states, which claimed more than 100 lives from excessive heat exposure. |
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