drought

Drought conditions are extremely dangerous in North Louisiana.

The two year wait to end all drought conditions in Louisiana is finally over.

The year of the drought.

La Niña, a cool air and cool ocean mixture affects the united states and the weather it brings. La Niña may be in the Pacific Ocean, but it affects the central areas of the United States as well. It causes the temperature in the Pacific Ocean to be lower in certain areas.

The record heat and drought conditions in the state have put a tremendous amount of stress on trees.

Get ready for another hot one today.

The dry weather is making life difficult on the state's cattle industry.

As it turns out, the first six months of 2011 will go down as the driest on record in Louisiana.

The severe drought across the state is impacting events and the economy.

Unless the state receives another seven-tenths of an inch of rain by Thursday, the first six months of this year will go on record as the driest such period ever in the state.

Every drop of rain helps the drought-starved Toledo Bend Reservoir, but it's going to take more than a few days of scattered thunderstorms to push it to full recovery.

Much of Louisiana is suffering through extreme drought conditions, no matter the situation with the swollen Mississippi River.

Despite storm systems that have swept across Louisiana recently, much of the state is suffering from a lack of rain.

Cattlemen in the Lafourche Parish area are looking to return the favor to their north Louisiana peers who sent bales of hay to them following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike and a severe rain flood in Lafourche last December.

Although most of Louisiana is an agricultural disaster area, it's hard to see that in harvest predictions. The most recent federal estimates are for record and near-record yields of soybeans, rice and corn.