KQED KQED Newsroom June 22, 2024
2013 was the driest year on record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. Here we were already two years into drought. Any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and its gone. Setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. In reporting in the past, ive tried to ask the question, yeah, but how much worse does this actually make the drought . Nobody really had an answer. They say it makes it worse how . Theres less water in the ground and all that. But doe...