Updated #DroughtMonitor just released. No surprises as D3-D4 continues to expand across Bay Area and much of CA as well as the Western US. pic.twitter.com/irEykuzhwD
“The reservoir created by Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th Century, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the U.S. West.”
“According to the 2020 study in Science cited earlier, human-caused climate change made southwestern drought conditions between 2000 and 2018 about 46% more intense than they would have been naturally, “pushing an otherwise moderate drought onto a trajectory comparable to the worst [U.S. southwest] megadroughts since 800 CE,” the heyday of the Mayan civilization.”
The entire Colorado River basin. Wow.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
“The reservoir created by Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th Century, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the U.S. West.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-drought/hoover-dam-reservoir-hits-record-low-in-sign-of-extreme-western-u-s-drought-idUSL2N2NR033
“According to the 2020 study in Science cited earlier, human-caused climate change made southwestern drought conditions between 2000 and 2018 about 46% more intense than they would have been naturally, “pushing an otherwise moderate drought onto a trajectory comparable to the worst [U.S. southwest] megadroughts since 800 CE,” the heyday of the Mayan civilization.”
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/california-americas-garden-is-drying-out/?fbclid=IwAR3VCRPgjW2TDnHzkJ23KGIc9KfPgjrd0YvEbP2VsUp7n63bsO3S_QxUNlY