“Roughly half of the country is dealing with abnormally dry or drought conditions right now,” wrote Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather's lead long-range expert. "Nearly 9% of the nation is in an extreme or ...

The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and for mapping ...