Flash Droughts Overtaking Conventional Droughts as Climate Change Continues

Smart Water Magazine has posted an article about a recent study by a multinational group of researchers that flash droughts, or droughts that form rapidly, are increasingly replacing more conventional types of drought due to climate change.

The experiment was conducted on a global scale and found that, over the last 64 years, there has been a shift towards more frequent flash droughts, though the speed of this shift differs on a regional basis. The regions that have seen the earliest impacts include Europe, the Sahara, the west coast of South America, and East and North Asia. The risk of flash droughts comes from how difficult they are to predict. Due to their rapid formation, current techniques used to forecast droughts are insufficient as they require longer periods of time for their projections. Read more at Smart Water Magazine.