Tracking Drought

Meteorological Drought: People that watch weather always predict

What is Drought? Meteorological drought is generally definedwhen and where extreme weather events
by comparing the rainfall at a particular will occur. Drought is a different extreme
Drought is a weather related to natural
time and a particular place. The definition isweather, not like tornadoes, floods,
disasters. A drought is periods of time
a specific location. It measures the degree hurricanes. A drought doesn't have a clear
where there isn't enough rainfalls to
of dryness. Meteorological drought leads tobeginning or ending. It starts and ends
support people, animals and plants. This
soil moisture and always has an affect on slowly. It is very hard tell when a drought
means dry weather. From drought, water begins and ends but by watching
crops productions.
becomes scarce.
“indicators” of drought, like water levels in
streams and reservoirs, soil moisture, or
Hydrological Drought:
Drought on Land: the amount of rainfall or snow pack an area
Hydrological drought magnitudes low
During a drought, it's very hard for crops and has received, we can keep track of
discharge or volume in streams, rivers,
plants to grow. Plants stop growing is because of reservoirs, lakes, lasting years or months droughts. Because droughts differ from one
grass. From drought, grass stops growing. When .Hydrological drought are usually related area to another, the indicators that we
grass stops growing it does not protect the soil to meteorological drought. They take place measure will depend on the area we're
from the wind (wind dries soil). This makes the after one and another. monitoring.
soil dry up and makes cracks in it .The dry soil
ruins plants and crops.
Socioeconomic Drought:
Socioeconomic Drought takes place when the Drought is a major
Agricultural drought: environmental issue today. Our
Agricultural drought occurs when there are demand for a practical
Animalgood exceeds supply as
hardship:
results
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away from drought .The future to be like. We have
have decided what we want our
climate. animals rely on water holes & wind driven decided that we will stop
water pumps to provide foods and water. drought!
future to be like. We have decided
that we will stop drought!