{"id":78349,"date":"2021-01-27T14:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=78349"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:28:22","slug":"flash-droughts-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flash-droughts-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash droughts in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why in News? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per a new study, the number of flash droughts could be increased in India, by the end of this century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Flash droughts: <\/strong>These 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Factors: <\/strong>Several factors including Lesser precipitation, high temperature, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions play an important role in the occurrence of flash droughts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flash droughts in India: <\/strong>The top five flash droughts in India based on the overall severity score occurred in 1979 (about 40% of the country was affected) followed by 2009, 1951, 1986, and 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways from the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ongoing climate change has caused a significant increase in global temperature. It can lead to more and more flash droughts in the coming years.<\/li>\n<li>There is a five-fold rise in the frequency of extremely dry and hot years in the coming three decades. This is causing an approximately seven-fold increase in flash droughts like 1979, by the end of the 21st century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact: <\/strong>The increased frequency of flash droughts can have severe implications for crop production, irrigation demands, and groundwater abstraction in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suggestions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Limiting Global Warming:<\/strong> By limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees C, the numbers and frequency of the projected flash droughts may go down.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Predicting flash droughts: <\/strong>Flash-drought prediction ahead of time using operational meteorological forecasts will help manage irrigation water demands and avoid considerable losses in agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/more-flash-droughts-in-india-by-end-of-century\/article33644236.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why in News? As per a new study, the number of flash droughts could be increased in India, by the end of this century. Facts: Flash droughts: These 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flash-droughts-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flash droughts in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":78573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[1477],"class_list":["post-78349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-disas_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Flash_droughts_in_India.jpg?fit=1400%2C532&ssl=1","views":{"total":36,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}