The lack of rain has allowed pollen counts to soar.
Precipitation is currently running about 5 inches below normal since the start of the year. Jeremy Geiger, a hydrologist at the National Weather Service office serving the Washington region, said the current drought is similar to
, which peaked with moderate to severe drought in late February and March, in that both were part of a prolonged period of below-normal precipitation.“The April of 2017 drought was pretty long-lived and originally began back in October of 2016 and continued through the middle parts of May of 2017,” Geiger wrote in an email. The drought in 2019, which began in September, “was more of a flash drought that occurred due to a really dry 2½-month period,” he added.
that started early with dual peaks in February and April. The Potomac River and local farmers are starting to feel some impacts as well. The combination of dry weather and wind is increasing the odds of outdoor fires. One of several recent outdoor fires in the region was a large brush fire that broke out March 22 in Rock Creek Park near Beach Drive and Piney Branch Parkway in Northwest D.C. It was “one of the larger such fires in the District in recent memory,” the D.C.
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