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Longer droughts will be part of the new normal

Study shows storms are becoming more unpredictable in recent decades Research finds storms are becoming more unpredictable In addition, the research finds that droughts are now longer in duration. FOX 10's Stephanie Olmo reports. PHOENIX - In a recent study, researchers found that droughts are lasting longer and storms are more unpredictable in the last five decades. Researchers went through 50 years of weather data, and they discovered that the bigger changes took place in the desert Southwest. "What we were really trying to accomplish was looking at the day-to-day variations in rainfall acr...

Periods of drought in the western United States have become longer over the past 50 years, according to a new study. In hopes of understanding how significantly rainfall totals and timing have changed in the past five decades, researchers analyzed daily meteorological data from over 300 long-term weather stations across the western US. “In the West, total annual rainfall has decreased by about 0.4 inches since the 1970s. The average longest dry period has increased by roughly 50% from 20 to 32 days,” says co-senior author William K. Smith, assistant professor in the School of Natural Reso...

Weather changes in the West Friday Apr 16th, 2021 Farmers and ranchers in Colorado will not be surprised to hear this. A new study out illustrates what many people have experienced first hand about drier weather patterns across the West. Joel Biederman with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Arizona spoke with the agency’s news service about the new study by a team of his colleagues. He says it’s long been known that temperatures are higher and rain amounts of lower around the western US than they were 50 years ago but when they compiled daily weather data from hundreds of weath...