2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought

The 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought was a severe to extreme drought that plagued the Southern United States, including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Oklahoma; the Southwestern States, including Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona; as well as large parts of Mexico, in a three-year pattern from 2010 to 2013.

[3] The drought began due to a strong La Niña developing by the summer of 2010 which brings below average rainfall to the southern United States.

Throughout 2011, the drought was confined to the Deep South as the mid-south received flooding due to severe weather and tornadoes.

In the spring of 2012, the drought made a massive expansion from the Deep South to the Midwest, Mid-south, Great Plains, and Ohio valley.

Throughout the winter of 2012–13, heavy rain and snow brought relief to the drought in the southern and eastern United States, even causing severe flooding.

[citation needed] Mexico also saw serious impact from the drought which decimated crops, killed over a million cattle, and stressed local water and food supplies.

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