Northern Tablelands Local Land Services

Drought conditions are steadily improving across the region.  

• The Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) shows approximately 31% of the region being in the Drought Affected category at the end of August.
• The individual drought indicator values in the Drought Affected region are at or near the thresholds that would trigger the Recovery or Non-Drought category of the CDI.
• Conditions have continued to improve, with near average to above rainfall through August resulting in an expansion of the Recovery and Non-Drought categories.
• On ground reports suggest pasture and cropping programs are progressing well, with good growth over the last month and positive outlooks entering spring.
• The DPIRD continues to monitor conditions in this region.

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Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

Plant greenness levels remain above average and improved for many parts of the region for the June to August period.

Note that some of the extremely negative NDVI areas (brown patches) are water bodies.

The NDVI anomaly is a useful measure of vegetation density and plant health. It estimates the amount of green vegetation there is in the landscape compared to what is expected at the given time of year, against the baseline period 1987 - 2020.

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Individual Drought Indicators

Drought indicators improve across the region.  

• There has been a steady improvement of the drought indicators across the region.
• Further rainfall will continue the improvement in conditions and maintain the good production outlooks for many locations.

To access a Drought History chart for your Parish, visit the Seasonal Conditions Information Portal.