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my US drought monitor

2016 US state map

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.

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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.