Nearly all droughts have the potential to be devastating, even deadly. But as Chief Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky explains in today’s Climate Matters, these prolonged dry periods generally vary by region, and from drought to drought.
The record-breaking drought in California — brought about by a severe lack of precipitation, especially mountain snows — has exacted a $2.7 billion toll on the state’s economy because of agricultural losses, researchers said Tuesday. During a briefing for the California Department of Food & Agriculture, scientists from the University of California
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While the Western drought has its claws firmly dug in, the nearly five-year drought that has gripped Oklahoma and Texas is on its last legs, thanks to recent torrents of rain, government climate scientists said Thursday. “I think the Texas drought is pretty much all but over,” Victor Murphy, climate services program manager for the National Weather
MoreDroughts may seem like the least exciting kind of natural disaster, but they actually cause some of the most damage. Bernadette Woods Placky explains how something so slow moving can be so dangerous.
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There’s a drought in California. Perhaps you’ve heard a few things about it. Like the fact that it’s cost the state $2.7 billion in losses, helped burn up roughly 118,000 acres of forest this year to-date and inspired Los Angeles to release a 96 million-strong armada of shade balls into reservoirs (though it was apparently a PR stunt). Oh, and the
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