Minnesota DroughtWatch

This map (from USGS's National Drought Watch Web site) shows the 7-day average streamflow conditions in hydrologic units. Thus, the map shows conditions adjusted for this time of the year. The colors represent 7-day average streamflow percentiles for the day of the year. USGS sites having at least 30 years of record are used. The data used to produce this map are provisional and have not been reviewed or edited. They may be subject to significant change.

Minnesota DroughtWatch Maps

Average streamflow maps:

• Area map: Below normal 7-day
• Site map: Below normal 7-day
• Site map: Below normal 14-day
• Site map: Below normal 28-day

Minnesota WaterWatch - Drought

• 7-day Flow Conditions for Streamgages

Minnesota Lowflow Site Map

Drought Analyses

• USGS Fact Sheet OFR93-642: Drought
• Drought and climate • evapotranspiration • fires

Drought Management

• Management of water resources for drought conditions
• Management alternatives for a hypothetical severe drought on the Colorado River
• Drought and ranching in Arizona
• Statement by Robert Hirsch, USGS Associate Director for Water, delivered at the 2002 Drought Summit

Drought Links of Other Agencies

• Precipitation required to end or ameliorate the current drought and the probabilities of that occurring
• NOAA's climate outlook maps
• U.S. Drought Monitor map and summary
• NOAA's Drought Information Center
• NRCS weekly drought reports, SNOTEL data, water-equivalent, and precipitation graphs by basin
• National Weather Service
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Drought Information
• Minnesota Climatology Working Group - Drought Conditions