droughtmaps

my US drought monitor

Data visualization of drought conditions in the United States. Head to my github Pages blog post for animations, more details and a tutorial, or to the Jupyter notebook to reproduce the results.

Prerequisites

• matplotlib for plots and animations (saved with ffmpeg).
• pandas, geopandas, shapely for analysis and geospatial tools.
• requests, urllib, BeautifulSoup, zipfile for parsing website, download data and unzip it.

Author

• Angelo Monteux - ilmonteux

Acknowledgments

This project was inspired by the maps at the US drought monitor by Richard Heim, NOAA/NCEI. Head over there for a cool interactive website.