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The City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said rain is a good start to reduce fire risk, but it doesn’t mean that the drought is over since the city has had a ...
“For the same precipitation deficit, drought now is much stronger than it used to be in the 20th century, and drought also lasts longer,” said Rong Fu, a UCLA climate researcher and study ...
“Extreme drought is basically a 1-in-25-year type of drought event,” said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and one ...
The drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.
The city has been in drought for two years – within Stage 1 conditions between June 2022 and February 2024, and Stage 2 drought from March to the present. More: Tropical Storm Alberto is over ...
The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave.Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from the southern United States, wreaking havoc on crops and water supply. [1]
Also in drought conditions were Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona. Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western United States. As of June 2021, "nearly the entire region (97 percent) [was] facing abnormally dry conditions." [5] Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico in 2021, as well as the prairies of ...
Temperatures above the historical average have exacerbated the drought. Despite some frosty mornings over the interior Northeast, the dryness of both the air and the ground has led to warm afternoons.