I got out of the weather business quite some time back, after years of helping the National Weather Service devise a rip current warning and advisory system for the Jersey Shore. However, this drought thing has me meteorologically mesmerized. It’s my first experience with a weather nonevent.
Things like floods, gales, nor’easters, tornadoes, hailstorms and your general “hurriquakes and lightning” are all high-visability sky happenings, marked by actual stuff. A drought is based on what ain’t coming down, as in rain.
This is not to say a drought has no impacts. It has a slewload of them.
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