the.com/droughts
nature's way of asking if you really needed that lawn.
means a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to water shortage.
from from old english drugath, related to dry - originally just meant dryness, not disaster; the disaster part we added ourselves.
slow disasterno headline moment, just months of nothing
dust bowl1930s drought turned midwest topsoil to sky
measured inconsecutive dry days, not just missing rain
global ironyworsens even as total rainfall rises elsewhere