PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Despite the recent precipitation to hit the Philadelphia region in recent days, drought warnings are still in effect for some parts.<\/p>\n
In Pennsylvania, Chester County faces an ongoing drought warning because of the lack of rain and the entire state of New Jersey also has a similar warning because it\u2019s seen less rain than expected over the last two years.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s something Ray Kruzdlo, the Senior Service Hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly has tracked for some time.<\/p>\n
“We have been here in New Jersey below normal 21 of the last 24 months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said last year, the region got a little reprieve with some rain heading into the summer months, but that rain frequency has tailed off since the end of last summer and into this year.<\/p>\n
Kurzdlo also defined the different categories of droughts and how some combine to create current conditions that lead to warnings. The first category is a meteorological drought, which is the lack of rain the Philadelphia region has experienced of late.<\/p>\n
Then there’s a hydrological drought, which is a lack of surface and sub-surface water.<\/p>\n
“Surface water can be what your rivers are doing, what your reservoirs are doing \u2014 ground water,\u201d said Kuzdlo. \u201cWe measure what aquifers are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
An agricultural drought is the hard freeze in April and combined lack of rain impacting fruit trees in parts of the region.<\/p>\n
The last category still unseen in the Philadelphia region is a socio-economic drought, and that\u2019s when restrictions are put on water use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Despite the recent precipitation to hit the Philadelphia region in recent days, drought warnings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1557,5627,915,69,71,70,2822,1133],"class_list":["post-192831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chester-county","tag-drought","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-rain","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}