Investigating the drought in the Canadian prairies

rOpenSci package or resource used*

weathercan

What did you do?

Much of the Canadian prairies is experiencing drought conditions (Canadian Drought Monitor - agriculture.canada.ca) resulting in significant wildfires and impacting agricultural production. I wanted to provide historical context for the current weather conditions.

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Sector

academic, agriculture

Field(s) of application

Weather, climate, agriculture, disaster

Comments

I am curious if there are better approaches to displaying this type of data. Is there other data I should be including when looking at drought conditions?

Twitter handle

@Alex_Koiter

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