{"id":238054,"date":"2023-04-15T20:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238054"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T09:00:17","slug":"flash-droughts-as-world-warms-droughts-coming-on-faster-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flash-droughts-as-world-warms-droughts-coming-on-faster-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Droughts: As world warms, droughts coming on faster: Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cAs world warms, droughts coming on faster: Research\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on <b>15th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study has found that Flash <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">droughts are occurring more often and with greater speed in many parts of the world due to climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Flash Droughts?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flash droughts occur very quickly due to the rapid depletion of soil moisture. It is different from normal drought conditions that develop in months, but the flash drought happens within a week or two.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What causes Flash droughts?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike slow-evolving drought, which is caused by a decline in precipitation, flash drought occurs when low precipitation is accompanied by abnormally high temperatures (e.g., heat waves), high winds, and\/or changes in radiation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These sometimes-rapid changes can quickly raise evapotranspiration rates and remove available water from the landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What did the study find about Flash droughts?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flash <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">droughts are occurring more often and with greater speed in many parts of the world due to climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are occurring more often than slower ones <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in tropical places like India, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Amazon basin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could have grave consequences for people in humid regions whose livelihoods depend on rain-fed agriculture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAs world warms, droughts coming on faster: Research\u201d published in Indian Express on 15th April 2023 What is the News? A study has found that Flash droughts are occurring more often and with greater speed in many parts of the world due to climate change. What are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flash-droughts-as-world-warms-droughts-coming-on-faster-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flash Droughts: As world warms, droughts coming on faster: Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,11209,9],"tags":[11417,10500],"class_list":["post-238054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-geography-in-news","category-public","tag-flash-droughts","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}