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METEOROLOGISTS REPORT BOMB CYCLE WON'T CURE CALIFORNIA'S DROUGHT
Jan. 12, 2023
By Karen Bohnert, The Scoop
The bomb cyclone has sucker punched California-flooding homes and roads and knocking out power. While many farmers have prayed for rain to end the ongoing drought plaguing the state, a leading expert says that the bomb cyclone will not end California's persistent drought.
"The short answer is no, this bomb cyclone will not end the drought in California," Dr. Thomas Borch with Colorado State University says.
Borch shares that consistent rain patterns throughout the year are needed in order to end the drought facing the Golden State.
"Not these fast and heavy storms," he says. "Also due to the increase in temperature, we see higher evaporation rates than previously and combine that we are rapidly increasing the demand for water and you end up with water scarcity."
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the downpours facing California are expected to bring short-term relief. A month ago, around 85% of the state was in the midst of a 'severe drought,' which has fallen to about 71% since the bomb cyclone made its way to the Golden State.
Richard Heim, a meteorologist with the National Centers for Environment Information says, "We need this stuff to happen this month, February, March, April - every month to really build up the snowpack, fill up those [water] reservoirs and knock down those [precipitation] deficits. "Unfortunately, a lot of it is coming too fast, too heavy."
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