D.C. is experiencing drought conditions for the first time since fall 2019, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
If April showers bring May flowers, there may be a lack of both this year. The month has so far picked up where recent ones left off in the D.C. area, with the city about 1 inch below normal for rainfall two weeks in.
Through the first two weeks of April, Washington is running third driest year-to-date on record. In Baltimore, it’s the second driest to date. Both locations have modern weather records back to 1871.briefly during fall 2019. A relatively long spell without drought followed until this week. During 2002, the El Niño followed an unusually long four-year run with La Niña or cooler than normal conditions in the equatorial Pacific. We are now coming out of a three-year such spell.A relative silver lining is that the below average precipitation spell has mostly been during the region’s typically drier months of the year. Even comparatively damp March — usually wetter than April — is only the sixth wettest of the year on average.About 65 percent of Washington’s annual 41.
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