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Severe droughts will continue to affect the West and get worse as temperatures continue to rise, scientists say. Heat driven by climate change has made ordinary western drought into exceptional ...
Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, [6] and orographic rainfall. [7] Convective processes involve strong vertical motions that can cause the overturning of the atmosphere in that location within an hour and cause heavy precipitation, [8] while stratiform processes involve weaker upward motions and less intense precipitation over a longer duration. [9]
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 A drought can last for days, months or years.Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy.
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, storms, and other events lead to disasters because of human action and inaction. Poor land and policy planning and deregulation can create worse conditions. They often involve development activities that ignore or fail to reduce the disaster risks .
Drought, which rapidly expanded in Ohio and West Virginia late in the summer, has now stretched into the Northeast. While the drought is not as bad as areas farther west, portions of the region ...
Wilmington saw less than 1 inch of rain in October. While November has seen some rain, it might be well into next year before conditions improve.
The drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...