The state isn’t ordering any water use restrictions…yet…but Governor Cuomo has raised the drought alert level for Western New York from “drought watch” to a “drought warning” as the dry summer gets worse. Less than a quarter of the year’s normal rainfall means streams and groundwater levels are extremely low. The order means people should […]
The entire western half of New York State plus New York City and Long Island are now under drought conditions, and getting worse. The U.S. Drought Monitor report for New York finds all of Monroe County as moved from “unusually dry” into either moderate or severe drought. Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston and Ontario Counties are […]
Drought conditions are getting worse in Western and Central New York. The federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor puts most of the western half of the state in at least “moderate” drought. And for the first time, all or parts of five counties west of Rochester are considered in severe drought. The Eastern Great Lakes area […]