Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts
In late spring of 2012, climactic chaos descended upon the Midwest and Great Plains in the midst of the growing season. A drought is supposed to unfold on a timeline of seasons to years, but in the two weeks between June 12 and 26, the High Plains went from what a monitoring group called \u201cabnormally dry\u201d to \u201csevere drought.