A late study published by the American Geophysical Union concludesCalifornia ’s ongoing megadroughtisthe risky the State Department has seenin more than a millennium .
https://gizmodo.com/just-how-bad-is-californias-drought-heres-a-scary-10-1618712607
California ’s terrifying drouth , summed up in two satellite image

“ While 3 - year period of relentless below - middling land moisture are not uncommon , ” geoscientists Daniel Griffin , of the University of Minnesota , and Kevin Anchukaitis , of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute , indite inthe in style issue ofGeophysical Research Letters , ” the current event is the most spartan drought in the last 1200 age . ”
WaPo ’s Angela Fritz summarizes the study ’s findings :
[ Griffin and Ahchukaitis ] reconstruct California ’s temperature and downfall story back to 800 A.D. using Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree gang datum . Hidden in this millennium of data they found as many as 66 dry catamenia of at least three to nine years . In the entire 1,200 year menstruum they studied , there were only three droughts that were like in nature to the current drought .

As of this posting , 55 % of California stay in an exceptional drouth , concord to the U.S. Drought Monitor . This , in spite of several back - to - back tempest thatswept the state this week .
take the full scientific study atGeophysical Research Letters .
H / tWaPo

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