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Florida may be an area to keep an eye on, with the expansion of dryness and drought conditions across much of the Peninsula this week. This was due in part to decreasing soil moisture, as well as short-term precipitation deficits that continued to build in the area.

The NWS Seasonal Drought Outlook predicts that drought will persist and may develop in Florida through the end of February.

Improvements occurred in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, Montana and Idaho.

Degradations occurred in South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Wyoming, Nevada, California and Hawaii. Washington and Texas saw mixed conditions.

See more change maps: droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/Ch

Pennsylvania and surrounding regions benefited from precipitation over the past week. This comes as a relief for the state, which has had low surface water levels in November, prompting water use restrictions and local burn bans. The drought also affected or killed some Christmas trees at farms in Pennsylvania, especially seedlings.

#Coffee beans hit their highest price in 47yr, driven by bad #weather in #Vietnam and #Brazil, the biggest producers of #robusta and #arabica
#Brazil saw its worst #drought in 70yr followed by heavy rains, raising fears that next season's output will drop.
Arabica hit $3.18/lb, leading #Nestle, world's biggest coffee company, to increase prices. As well as #climate concerns, future prices are being raised by worries about #tariffs: Roasters "will try to import now"
semafor.com/article/11/28/2024

www.semafor.com · Coffee at highest price in 47 years | SemaforBy Tom Chivers

The price of Arabica #coffee reached the highest level since 1977 in trading Wednesday on concerns of limited supplies caused by #drought in #Brazil this year.
A pound of Arabica beans listed in New York hit 320.10 US cents, extending the commodity's rally over the past year and pushing past a nearly thirty-year high the day prior.
The all-time recorded high was 337.50 US cents in 1977.
#ClimateChange #agriculture

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