One of the terms that many of us do not hear about very often is “flash drought.” This is a sudden and extreme dry spell that occurs over weeks to months, rather than years or decades. This event is ...

The city, which typically gets about 4.5 inches of rain in October, got nothing. Sudden dry conditions will become more ...

Over 73 percent of land across the entire U.S. and Puerto Rico was under some degree of drought as of October 29.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, ...

Or Dallas. Or several other U.S. cities that went from unusually wet in some cases to bone dry in a flash. In fact, “flash drought” is the term for this sort of phenomenon. It joins “zombie fire,” ...

A long-term drought, or even a flash drought like we have seen develop regionally, can exacerbate wildfire conditions. Other ...

“With hay crops being affected earlier this year by a flash drought, and now lack of planting abilities for cool-season forages, producers will be forced to sell animals due to the lack of ...

Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which ...

Last month, nearly half the country was in a flash drought, which means a rapid dry-out from a combination of little precipitation and abnormally high temperatures. The Northeast capped the month ...