CALIFORNIA:
And reports suggest recent weather with its rain
is the anomaly and the desert is the norm.
“the past century has been among the wettest
of the last 7,000 years.”
“researchers have documented multiple droughts
in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row
during the past 1,000 years”
“The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust
Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought
that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion
of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.!
See how you can get a distorted picture if you only count
from after 1900.
http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5689627
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24993601/california-drought-past-dry-periods-have-lasted-more
“Drawing water excessively from these underground
stores may also harm the very structure of those reserves,
potentially shrinking their overall capacity so that they
won’t be able to hold as much water again in the future”
http://www.ibtimes.com/california-groundwater-crisis-grows-during-critical-drought-farmers-pump-water-wells-1870422