California has been in a megadrought for more than a decade, scientists say. When it will end?
The drought is just three years old, by official reckoning. But the reality is likely worse. Scientists believe California is suffering through a megadrought of a decade or longer — an extended crisis, interrupted by the occasional rainy winter, that ranks with the worst dry spells of the past 1,200 years. It’s anyone’s guess when it will end. … That’s not all. Climate change appears to be driving California beyond droughts or megadroughts, into a condition that’s considerably worse: a permanent state of progressively hotter and drier weather.
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