Drought doesn’t mean fewer mosquitoes
Southern California is experiencing a drought of historic proportions. In fact, some scientists are now referring to this uber-drought as “aridification.” While droughts are thought of as somewhat temporary, aridification signals a whole new condition, one that Matthew Kirby, a paleoclimatologist and professor at California State University Fullerton, says, could mean living “under a permanent state of water conservation.” Meanwhile, while the summer months can mean mosquitos, a drought doesn’t necessarily mean that their threat is diminished.