Drought Means ‘Drier than Normal,’ but ‘Normal’ Is Changing

Drought means ‘drier than normal.’ But ‘normal’ is changing

The job of a climatologist has changed a lot in a hundred years. The climate has too. And those changes are making it harder to tell what is or isn’t a drought.

Ringside: Is California’s Water Infrastructure Ready for Climate Whiplash? – California Globe

If there is anything that might constitute an overwhelming institutional consensus in California, it’s that we are experiencing climate change, and that one of the consequences will be more rain, less snow, and more so-called whiplash between very wet years and very dry years. In an average year these days, 30 million acre feet of water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But nearly half of that water comes down in the form of a melt…

Drought means ‘drier than normal,’ but ‘normal’ is changing

If climate change is shifting what’s considered “normal,” what does that mean for drought?

District: June drier than normal

June was drier than usual across North Florida according to the Suwannee River Water Management District.