3 Is it really happening

3 Is it really happening

Yes, The U.S. government says so. It publishes on a web site: “U.S. Drought Monitor”.

They seem concerned. But I’m sure that they don’t want to appear to concerned or they could cause a panic. I know that I am very concerned. Here is some of the U.S. government concern:

The map summarizes and synthesizes information from the local and state level to the national scale, making it the most widely used gauge of drought conditions in the country. Policy makers use it to allocate relief dollars, states use it to trigger drought response measures, and media rely on it. The USDA uses it to distribute millions, even billions, of dollars in drought relief to farmers and ranchers each year, and the Internal Revenue Service also uses it for ranching-related tax determinations.

Here is the world map: