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• US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA)
  • Weather and climate-- Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF).
  • Current USA Agricultural Weather Highlights for CONUS
  • Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
  • Weekly Weather - National crop weather summaries (pdf and text files)
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) - USDA
    • USDA Weekly State Crop Weather Reports
  • Reports (National Agricultural Statistics Service) for
    •  Field Crops
    •  Crop Production by year from 1995-present  and archives for earlier years (1960s through 1990s)  (includes acreage, area harvested, yield, etc.)
  • Usual Planting and Harvesting Dates for US Field Crops (National Agricultural Statistics Service)
  • Major World Crop Areas and Climate Profiles
  • Climate Page for National Resources Conservation Service, USDA
  • National Water and Climate Center (National Resources Conservation Service, USDA; primarily for western states)

  • Weekly Report - Snowpack/Drought Monitor Update from NRCS (2001-present)

  • Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) for US  (National Resources Conservation Service)
  • US Extreme  Minimum Temperature Maps (From USDA Field Office, Stoneville, MS)
  • National Soil Temperature Map (seasonal)  (Requires pdf reader)
• Precision Agriculture, Lawn & Garden Weather Forecasts by County
   (From Univ. of Kentucky Ag. Weather Center)
•  NOAA  CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER (CPC)
• Tabular Divisional Palmer Drought & Crop Moisture Data for Current Week (from CPC) Data are arranged alphabetically by state and by climate division
• Archive of Palmer Drought Data for Central US (including Wisconsin)
  • 1 week
  • 2 week
  • 3 week
• CPC - Drought Monitoring Information Access to text files of Weekly Drought Indices
• CPC - Degree Day Monitoring and Data Access to text files of growing, heating & cooling degree day units

• Current Products
  • US Drought Monitor
  • Animated Indicator maps for the US Drought Monitor
  • Archive of weekly US Drought Monitor summaries (maps plus narrative) since 1999
  • Drought-Precipitation overlay map
  • Drought-Streamflow overlay map
  • Interactive site with national, state and local drought impacts in
    Drought Impact Reporter
    
  • Latest Palmer Drought Severity map
  • Current Palmer Drought Severity Percentiles map
     
  • Maps and animations of current Palmer Drought Indices (including  PDSI,  Z-Index and PHDI)  from NCDC
  • Archive of past Palmer Drought Severity Index Maps by Week since 1998 to date (from CPC)

    1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
    2003	2004	2005	2006

  • Historical  Drought Indices by climate division from NCDC/ CLIMVIS
  • Latest Crop Moisture Chart
  • Precipitation needed to reduce drought map
  • Current Keetch-Byram Drought Index map
  • NOAA's Drought Information Center
    Current Drought Information from NWS Hydrologic Information Center
     
  • Drought Watch --USGS State Information on Drought
  • Reconstructed Drought Maps for US (1700-1995)  NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
  • CPC Drought Monitoring: Indices and Diagnostics (from the North American Regional Reanalysis)
     
• Forecast Products
  • Palmer Drought Severity Forecast map
  • Graphic of  US Seasonal Drought Outlook from Climate Prediction Center
  • Detailed Discussion for Seasonal Drought Outlook
  • US Seasonal Drought Outlooks Archive
  • Experimental NLDAS (North American Land Data Assimilation System) Drought Monitor  (NASA)
     
  • Drought Monitoring and Hydrological Forecasting with VIC (Princeton Univ)