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To make NASA Earth observation (EO) data more accessible for electric utilities and other energy management sector end users, this StoryMap outlines data sources for key variables, parameters, and environmental issues, with a focus on easy to use and access datasets, products, and visualization tools relevant for electric utility applications. People who work with electric utilities can use it to find information related to energy management, renewable energy, and climate resilience.

This dashboard presents trends in extreme heat, extreme cold, warm nights, heating and cooling degree days, seasonal average temperatures, seasonal extreme temperatures, and yearly average temperatures from 1970-2019 for 75 stations in Texas. The graphs show both individual data points for each year and overall trend lines and can be downloaded as images. The dashboard also includes a link to a fact sheet discussing the temperature indicators shown in the tool and their importance.

Marine ecosystems provide food, jobs, security, well-being, and other services to millions of people across the U.S., yet they and the people that rely on them are facing increasingly complex challenges. Tracking the status and trends of ocean and coastal ecosystems is critically important to understand how these ecosystems are changing and to identify potential issues. 

Each year, the High Plains Regional Climate Center assembles climate summaries that provide an overview of conditions on monthly, quarterly, and annual time scales.

Each monthly climate summary is released on the 5th business day of the following month, each quarterly climate summary is released on or around the 3rd Thursday of the following quarter, and each annual climate summary is released on the 5th business day of the following year.

Current and archived climate summaries are available on the site.

Images are automatically updated when the original providers update them on their respective websites. The tool is focused on eight states: Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.

Click on any image to view a full-sized version, and click again to reduce it. You can enlarge multiple images at the same time, and click-drag to move them around your desktop. Each image's name is linked to the corresponding page at the provider's website.

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This website provides access to drought indices that are used by the Montana Governor’s Drought and Water Supply Advisory Committee (Monitoring Sub-Committee). All datasets are calculated daily and can be aggregated by watershed and county boundaries. Much of the underlying data in this dashboard is from the gridMET dataset.

This dashboard provides map-based information on the current status of drought in South Dakota, including general drought information, temperature, precipitation, the Standardized Precipitation Index, hydrologic information, agricultural information, and soil moisture.

VegDRI maps are produced weekly and provide regional to sub-county scale information about drought's effects on vegetation.

In 2006, VegDRI covered seven states in the Northern Great Plains (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, and WY). It has undergone multiple expansions:

All drought information is derived from the U.S. Drought Monitor. The percentage of commodities affected by drought is presented in a number of formats, including data tables, data graphs, maps, and animations. 

The U.S. Agriculture in Drought file is updated each Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Economist, based on that morning’s U.S. Drought Monitor map. An archive of the weekly reports is available on the website.

This toolkit from the National Drought Mitigation Center provides: