The drought has now parched about 60 percent of the contiguous 48 states.
Trustee of the Sweeney Scholars at NYU providing scholarships for worthy applicants of the contiguous counties to New York whose families had never been to college.
And it's been to a lot of places -- to all of the contiguous 48 states as well as 7 foreign countries: Canada, Mexico and 5 nations in Europe.
Less than 40 years had passed since the American civil war, and three of the contiguous western states were still awaiting admission to the union.
Indeed, moderate to severe drought conditions currently exist in parts of the nation's midsection, South and Southwest -- about a quarter of the contiguous 48 states.
By comparison, the median price in Millburn, the most affluent of the contiguous communities, rose by 101percentt, from $325,000 in 1992 to $654,500 last year.
El Nino can raise surface temperatures 14 degrees above normal over an area three times the size of the contiguous United States.
The main page shows a map of the contiguous 48 states and the major airports; clicking on one shows the delays.
And a map with the article mislabeled, in some editions, the state in the upper left corner of the contiguous United States that is considered solidly Democratic.
Noaa also said that 31.5% of the contiguous US was in drought, up six percentage points since July, and drought had intensified in parts of the south-eastern US.
And, given that the rate of home-price appreciation in the two towns surpassed those in all but one of the contiguous communities over the last 10 years, the strategy seems to have been successful.
