#usdm — Public Fediverse posts
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Drought relief and expansion were mixed across the US this week, with areas of improvement in the Southeast, Midwest and South. Drought eased for the fourth consecutive week, falling 1.14 points to cover 55.02% of the contiguous US.
#drought #DroughtMonitor #USDM
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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Drought Defined: A Deep Dive into the U.S. Drought Monitor
The USDM is a vital public resource that is used by policymakers, researchers, and the public to monitor drought conditions. It assists with drought mitigation efforts and determines eligibility for farmers and ranchers who need federal disaster assistance.
#drought #USDM #DroughtMonitor
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/drought-defined-deep-dive-us-drought-monitor
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Five Facts About the United States Drought Monitor
1. Numerous agencies use the U.S. Drought Monitor.
2. The USDM is made with more than precipitation data.
3. A real person, using real data, updates the map.
4. The USDM provides a current snapshot, not a forecast.
5. Your input can be part of the drought-monitoring process.All true.
#USDroughtMonitor #USDM #drought
https://www.farmers.gov/blog/five-facts-about-united-states-drought-monitor
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Drought expanded and intensified again this week, with degradation in the Southeast and in parts of the High Plains and West. It eased in parts of the South, Midwest, and Northeast. Drought covers 62.78% of the contiguous US, a jump of 1.75 points.
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Worst spring drought on record grips US, fueling wildfires and water worries
Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as April 21, with the worst of it centered on much of the South, West and Plains. Put another way, dryness in the Lower 48 states has never been this expansive in spring in the history of the US Drought Monitor, which has data back to 2000.
#drought #USDroughtMonitor #USDM
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/weather/us-drought-worst-in-decades-wildfires-climate
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Some U.S. Drought Monitor stats.
Abnormal dryness and drought (D0-D4) cover 77.57% of the continental U.S. on the U.S. Drought Monitor this week, for the 27th largest affected area since the USDM began in 2000.
Drought (D1-D4) covers 61.03% of the continental U.S. for the 25th most.
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March was a dry month, leading to widespread drought expansion across the US with some small areas of improvement in the Midwest and Northeast. Drought covers 59.91% of the continental US, a jump of 3.7 points from last week. Drought has intensified significantly in parts of the Great Plains and West in recent weeks.
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Drought expanded and intensified across most of the country with a few spots of improvement in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest and Northeast. Drought (D1-D4) covers 56.21% of the US, up 1.4 points from last week.
The last time there was this much drought in the US was the week of Nov. 29, 2022, when 57.51% of the contiguous US was affected.#drought #DroughtMonitor #USDM
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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NASA scientists join U.S. Drought Monitor team
Ben Cook, with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, and Jonathan Case, with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama-Huntsville are the newest USDM team members.
#drought #DroughtMonitor #USDM #NASA #RocketScience
https://ianrnews.unl.edu/article/nasa-scientists-join-us-drought-monitor-team
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The US Drought Monitor shows some drought improvement in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, areas that were affected by last weekend's massive winter storm. More improvement may occur further north and east as snow melts and increases soil moisture.
Drought worsened in parts of the West, the Plains and Florida. Drought covers 43.04% of the contiguous US, a drop of 0.97 points from last week.
#drought #DroughtMonitor #USDM
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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U.S. Drought Monitor staff preparing for #NOAA disruptions
A climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center says he’s closely following how staffing cuts at #USDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could impact work.
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/u-s-drought-monitor-staff-preparing-for-noaa-disruptions/
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Curve Finance Proposal Eyes Reducing TUSD Exposure After SEC Settlement - Curve Finance is evaluating a proposal to reduce its reliance on the stablecoin TU... - https://news.bitcoin.com/curve-finance-proposal-eyes-reducing-tusd-exposure-after-sec-settlement/ #wormholeoracle #curve.finance #seccharges #stablecoin #trusttoken #pegkeeper #truecoin #crvusd #defi #tusd #usdm
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BlackRock tokenized treasury fund BUIDL reaches $500M - BlackRock has hit the milestone less than four months after the launch o... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-tokenized-treasury-fund-buidl-reaches-500-million #blackrockusdinstitutionaldigitalliquidityfund #franklinonchainu.s.governmentmoneyfund #mountainprotocol #ondofinance #buidl #benji #usdm
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tl:dr - Crypto is generally a scam but blockchain and it's concepts are not.
A lot of #crypto is a scam. Most of crypto is a scam, especially if it focuses on gains/investment/trading/GAINS!
But #blockchain is a useful tech that most people don't know about because crypto is mostly a scam.
For example. I tend to store most of my excess US Dollar, as #USDM on the #Cardano blockchain.
This allows me world wide access to my money, and no bank has control over my assets. I can get that money onto a Debit card in about 2 minutes with about 2% transaction fee for anyone who doesn't use blockchain.
For people who do use blockchain, I can easily pay people with this USDM anywhere in the world and it would take about 15 seconds for them to receive the funds and it costs about 0.17 ADA, basically $0.10.
Another use case.
This website, veganism.social costs somebody money, specifically @nm and @Ellie
Monetizing is hard when it comes to social media. Blockchain is a way to fix this and remove a central bank from the equation.
A #DAO, decentralized autonomous organization, could be created by anyone in the community. The DAO would issue out an #NFT to anyone who wanted to participate in veganism.social governance.
This NFT would allow users to have voting rights on things that happen to the website.
Another added benefit of this NFT is it can be used for verification purposes for user accounts.
The DAO would then be able to have a wallet used to collect donations from anyone but specifically these users.
Instead of @nm and @Ellie being the sole decision holders for this money, the DAO would be able to vote on what this money is used for.
Mostly paying the bill but there is no telling how much could be raised to support this instance and could even fund upgrades.
All without needing a bank, non-profit, funds manager, other middleman that would just take our pooled money.
Shilling random tokens is a scam and definitely a #Ponzi scheme. Some have utility but most are trash.
Just trying to start a conversation because if everyone stays convinced that blockchain is a scam, because crypto is mostly a scam, then we will be ignoring super useful tools and tech.
The same DAO concept, I just discussed, can be used for animal sanctuaries. This would give a sanctuary access to world wide support without fear of Animal Ag funds or government agencies blocking up processes to stop that support.
This would also create a #decentralized system for auditing these sanctuaries to make sure they are taking care of the animals with the money they are being provided.
This would also provide a decentralized system for providing food to these sanctuaries that come from sustainable practices.
The brainstorming of use cases for blockchain tech can only start if we understand that blockchain is not black and white, evil not evil. It is a tech just like cloud is a tech.
Participating in parts of one blockchain is not support for all crypto or even other parts of that blockchain.
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This week was one for the U.S. Drought Monitor record books!
Heavy rains in the South, Southeast and Midwest led to widespread drought improvement — a 14-point drop in the Drought Severity and Coverage Index for the continental U.S., to be exact. That means it’s tied for the fourth-largest decrease in the history of the USDM.
DSCI sums up the USDM for an area in a single statistic. Learn more: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/AbouttheData/DSCI.aspx