2020–2023 North American drought
Severe drought impacting Canada, Mexico and the United States since 2020 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A drought developed in the Western, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020.[3] Similar conditions started in other states in August 2020, including Iowa, Nebraska and certain parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. At the same time, more than 90% of Utah, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico were in some level of drought.[4] Also in drought conditions were Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona.
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Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western United States. As of June 2021, "nearly the entire region (97 percent) [was] facing abnormally dry conditions."[5] Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico in 2021, as well as the prairies of Canada.
The drought conditions of 2020 were associated with a moderate La Niña episode that had developed in the Pacific Ocean.[6]