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WORLD GRAIN WEATHER REPORT: DROUGHT STILL A MAJOR CONCERN

amounts have not yet been great enough
to restore the water supply to what has
been assumed to be normal.

Early 2013 world weather highlights

weighted toward river and stream ﬂows,
water reservoir and water table data,
although it also looks at drought from
an agricultural perspective. Many of
the areas shown in the Global Drought
Map are in a hydrologic drought. A hydrologic drought is one that pertains to

the water supply situation. Crop moisture could still be ﬁne while a region
continues to suffer from a hydrologic
drought, and that seems to be more the
trend around the world right now than
other scenarios. Rain has resumed in
many areas that had been too dry, but

Grain
analysis

REASONS FOR DRYNESS DEBATED
Some of the dryness that has evolved
in the past couple of years can be directly attributed to La Niña. Most La Niña
events tend to remove moisture from
the atmosphere and the La Niña that occurred recently lasted two years, which
is more than double the usual length
of the phenomenon. Because of that,
a greater amount of moisture has been
removed from the atmosphere. Other
scientists believe the growing dryness is
attributed to changing atmospheric temperatures with those believing the atmosphere is cooling, suggesting the trend
toward more frequent La Niña events
will continue to expand, allowing more
moisture to be removed and setting the
stage for more dryness around the globe.

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