The U.S. Drought Monitor (click here) started in 2000. Since 2000, the longest duration of drought (D1-D4) in California lasted 376 weeks beginning on December 27, 2011 and ending on March 5th, 2019. The most intense period of drought occurred the week of July 29, 2014 where D4 affected 58.41% of California land.
California has been entrenched in a drought every year for the past twenty years except a few stretches for months. The lack of drought was never long enough to recover from the previous one.
Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) (click here)
Trump never listened to the California Governor Newsom, he lectured him from the bully pulpit. Presidents are supposed to listen and bring plans to rebuild from the tragedy, not pretend to be an expert above the experts.
...He told Wade Crowfoot, (click here) secretary of California's Natural Resources Agency: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."...
April 18, 2020
By Philip Bump
...“Today the U.S. hit a grim milestone of 1 million cases of the coronavirus,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said. “Back in late February, you predicted that the number of cases would go down to zero. How did we get from your prediction of zero to 1 million?”
“Well,” Trump replied, “it will go down to zero, ultimately.”...
