{"id":266720,"date":"2021-06-04T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-research-shows-effects-of-flash-droughts-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:50:01","slug":"new-research-shows-effects-of-flash-droughts-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-research-shows-effects-of-flash-droughts-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"#New research shows effects of ‘flash droughts’ in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New research shows effects of ‘flash droughts’ in Australia<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n The different types of drought, showing how long they last and the size of the area they affect. Credit: Ailie Gallant, Author provided
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At the tail end of winter in 2015, the ground in the Wimmera in northwestern Victoria had been a little dry but conditions weren’t too bad for farmers. The crop season was going well.<\/p>\n


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The start of September looked promising. It was cool, and there were decent rains. One Wimmera lentil grower said<\/a>, “As long as it doesn’t get too hot, we should actually be OK.”<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, summer weather had arrived early. At the start of October, the soils were baked dry. Lentils and other pulse crops were devastated. <\/p>\n

This kind of event, where drier-than-normal conditions transform into severe or extreme drought in the space of weeks, is called a “flash drought.” While flash droughts are still not well understood, our research<\/a> studies how they occur in Australia\u2014which may help move us toward being able to warn of flash drought in advance.<\/p>\n

The different kinds of drought<\/b><\/p>\n

Scientists typically talk about drought as a lack or deficit of available moisture to meet various needs, such as in agriculture or for water resources. We often classify different types of drought depending on where there is a lack of water, or what its effects are:<\/p>\n