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As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry - Levin - 14-04-2023
By SETH BORENSTEIN
yesterday
Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found.
The study in Thursday’s journal Science found droughts in general are being triggered faster. But it also showed that a special and particularly nasty sudden kind — called “flash droughts” by experts — is casting an ever bigger crop-killing footprint.
It comes only in the growing season – mostly summer, but also spring and fall – and is insidious because it’s caused not just by the lack of rain or snow that’s behind a typical slow-onset drought, hydrologists and meteorologists said.
What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil.
Much more at: https://apnews.com/article/drought-sudden-agriculture-climate-change-heat-befc5fc8cf43a430b29f023bca40acc0
RE: As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry - sgxin - 14-04-2023
Had already happened in the past. The water that carved out the US Grand Canyon is no where to be found now.
Quote:The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon