Droughts in the United States

A procession with a replica of the Our Lady of the Torrents, a virgin historically associated with drought, on March 26, 2023 in Spain. Photo: Emilio Morenatti (AP)It’s so dry in Spain, communities in the Catalan region asking for divine intervention.Parishioners in the Northeastern mountain village of L’Espunyola held a special mass and procession in honor of Our Lady of the Torrents, a local virgin associated with rain, in late March, the Associated Press reported. Villagers carried a statue representing the Lady on a…

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A before-and-after comparison of water levels in Lake Oroville, California, showing the Enterprise Bridge In July 2021 and February 2023.Gif: Gizmodo (Images: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)California is drenched.Thanks to a season full of record-breaking and dangerous precipitation—including 12atmospheric rivers, the latest of which hit the state on Tuesday—the state is wetter than it’s been in months, following a summer of extreme drought conditions that left reservoirs at historic lows, killed millions of trees, caused…

This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.California is no stranger to big swings between wet and dry weather. The “atmospheric river” storms that have battered the state this winter are part of a system that has long interrupted periods of drought with huge bursts of rain — indeed, they provide somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of all precipitation on the West Coast.The parade of storms that has struck California in recent months has dropped more than 30 trillion…

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San Francisco Department of Public Works workers clean up a tree that fell on a SF MUNI bus after a storm passed through the area on January 10, 2023 in San Francisco, California.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)California has been slammed by storm after storm since late December, but it looks like the weeks of chaotic weather may finally be over soon.Experts predict that the back-to-back storms may be ending this week. “We’re finally getting through the parade of storms,” said Michael Anderson, a state climatologist,…

A bleached ‘bathtub ring’ is visible on the banks of Lake Mead near the Hoover Dam on August 19, 2022 in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Angely Mercado covers climate change for Gizmodo. She has written stories about the megadrought in the American West, how California celebrities guzzled water in 2022, and reports of mass tree deaths. She hopes to write more positive climate news in 2023. The top story:Don’t be fooled by the massive storms and floods hitting California…

Forest and fog above Hoh River, from Spruce Nature Trail; Olympic National Park, Washington.Photo: VWPics via AP Images (AP)What should be evergreen hills and forests throughout the Pacific Northwest are now marred by large swathes of brown, dead trees.Fir trees across Oregon are dying from an ongoing drought plaguing much of the country. In a recent aerial survey, the U.S. Forest Service observed dead trees in about 1.23 million acres (over 1,900 square miles) of forest in Oregon and Washington, Columbia Insight…

A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content,…

Recent hot and dry conditions have only fueled the seemingly endless drought that’s pummeling the U.S. for months. October saw higher-than-average temperatures and lower-than-average precipitation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported this week.According to NOAA, the average temperature throughout the U.S. last month was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius). This is about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average, according to the report. A map of the year from January through October shows…