The West is warming and drying so fast that a crucial #DroughtMonitor tool can’t keep up, study says
"An “exceptional #drought” should occur in a region only 2% of the time, according to the monitor’s guidelines. But some areas of the western U.S. have been in exceptional drought 18% of the time.
“What is the value to a decision-maker of a map that is just red all of the time?” said Justin Mankin, a professor at Dartmout. “It doesn’t help you triage resources.” "