WUWT: Let’s talk about droughts. Unfortunately, to do that, we’d have to understand what droughts are. And that understanding doesn’t come easy.
“Drought is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to monitor and define. Depending on the variables used to characterize it and the systems or sectors being impacted, drought may be classified in different types such as meteorological (precipitation deficits), agricultural (e.g. crop yield reductions or crop failure, related to soil moisture deficits), ecological (related to plant water stress that causes e.g. tree mortality) or hydrological droughts (e.g. water shortage in streams or storages such as reservoirs, lakes, lagoons and groundwater).” Alimonti (2022) (currently threatened with retraction due to unscientific pressure from the Climate Crisis Gang)
Or, according to the National Geographic: “Drought is a complicated phenomenon, and can be hard to define. One difficulty is that drought means different things in different regions. A drought is defined depending on the average amount of precipitation that an area is accustomed to receiving.”… “A drought in Atlanta could be a very wet period in Phoenix, Arizona!” (National Geographic isn’t threatened with retraction…though many of its entertainment articles – masquerading as ‘science’ — should be. NatGeo is owned by the entertainment arm of Disney Corporation.)
There are at least 11 types of droughts mentioned at aginfo.in.
The end result of this situation is that there is no single metric capable of determining or representing the presence or absence of drought. more here
The one thing I have absolutely no doubt about is that the Deed State and the Media will redefine drought to advance their own agenda. It will mean whatever they think will be useful in expanding government power and control.
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I’ve lived in Calif for 65 years and we’ve had way more droughts than rainy periods. El Ninos were a blessing.
When too many people move to an area that the annual rainfall cannot sustain.
A million & a half+ in the middle of the Sonoran desert in Phoenix, for example.
S. Texas may be another.
If it is an average then it has no meaning except in comparing periods. In other words, fuck off.
I geek out here regularly.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
and don’t forget- there can be moral and ethical droughts, too
Toby
I have been living in one for the last 50 years.
A drought in Texas this year means 10″ or rain in the spring to turn everything green, then only traces of rain in a hot summer and all the green things turn brown. We are in the third year of below average rainfall and 18 inches is the average annual total. Fire danger is high.
Whatever it is, it’s bad, increasing, and caused by white men. The only solution is communism.