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Drought in Southern Africa

Hot and dry conditions associated with a strong El Niño left experts wondering if a record agricultural drought was in the works.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Joshua Stevens, using vegetation anomaly and land surface temperature data provided by Jennifer Small, Ed Pak, and Assaf Anyamba, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center and the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) Global Agricultural Monitoring Project (GLAM) Project. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 3, 2016
Data acquired December 2015

Source:
Terra > MODIS