Drought Meter and Precipitation Graph for Bandon, OR

Summary of Drought This Week In Bandon

As reported on the NIDIS website for the week of October 12-18, 2016, drought (D1-D4) is impacting:

18.5% of the area of U.S. and 22.1% of the lower 48 states.
111.2 million people in the U.S. and 111.1 million people in the lower 48 states.

Dry, hot conditions across the central and southern U.S. contrasted with heavy rain and mountain snow in the northwestern quarter of the nation. As a result, drought continued to rapidly intensify from the Delta to the Southeast, with drought intensification also noted over portions of the Northeast. Conversely, large swaths of drought were reduced or eliminated from the northern Rockies into the Pacific Northwest.

From the Pacific Northwest into the northern Rockies, a steady fetch of Pacific moisture coupled with a series of disturbances triggered heavy rain and mountain snow. Event totals varied considerably based on topography, but liquid-equivalent amounts averaged 3 to 15 inches in the Coastal Ranges and 1 to 4 inches in the northern Rockies. Areas lee of the mountains received less, but amounts of 0.5 inch to locally more than an inch were observed. As a result, widespread 1- and 2-category reductions were made in areas where the heaviest precipitation fell.

To Read more: http://www.drought.gov/drought/