The worst drought in 1200 years descends on 2021: How much will humanity suffer?

The U.S. Federal Drought Monitor map shows that much of California's San Francisco Bay Area is in extreme drought, totaling more than 37,000 square miles, and will experience a threat 130 percent greater than the average risk of wildfires over the past five years, just last year when California experienced the largest fires in its history!

California is experiencing the worst drought in over a thousand years

ABC7 NEWS meteorologist Mike Nicco says a rare drought has covered California, with extreme drought coverage across the state rising from 53 percent to 75 percent, meaning 3/4 of the state is on the verge of collapse and California is being hit by a rare drought in its history.

The water level of Folsom River drops and the pier is exposed in Granite Bay, California, USA

This is a picture of Granite Bay, California, USA, where the water level of the Folsom River has fallen and the docks on the shore stand on the riverbed, forming this regular structure.

In the past few months, the U.S. West, including Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, has experienced the most severe drought since 2000. February is the traditional rainy season in the southwestern United States, and the storage of water for lakes and vegetation is completed during this time of year, but this February in the U.S. West, thousands of miles of bare land, including Arizona, many areas have not even a drop of rain!

A paper in the journal "Nature" pointed out that 2000-2018 is the second worst drought record in the United States in 1200 years, and the U.S. mainstream media, which is good at creating headlines, has called this year's U.S. West drought "the worst drought in 1200 years"!

The severity of the drought in the western United States

Of course, the history of the United States is only 300 years, where are the 1200 years (thirteenth century) from the data? But scientists have always been able to find those rare drought years from the annual rings of trees that have lived for hundreds of years, and it is clear that this year's drought in the western United States is not serious.

Many parts of the world are experiencing a rare drought in history

Not only the United States, a report on May 11 pointed out that Mexico also suffered a rare drought, as of the end of April 2021, but about 85% of Mexico also suffered a severe and drought, many lakes are facing drought or even have drought, including Mexico's second largest freshwater Lake Cuitzeo (Lake Cuitzeo).

Lake Cuitzeo on May 4,,2020 on May 4, 2021

Lake Cuitzeo is an endorheic lake in the central Mexican state of Michoacán, covering an area of 300-400 square kilometers. This time last year Lake Cuitzeo was a turquoise lake dotted with sailboats, but by April of this year, it was nothing but silt, and the water in the silt was steaming dry!

Lake Cuitzeo on May 4, 2021 (May 4, 2021)

It looks like there is still some water in the right half of the lake, doesn't it? But judging from the motion picture, it has indeed dried up completely!

The western United States is in drought and Mexico is scrambling, and the rest of the world is no slouch either, with southern Madagascar also suffering its worst drought in 40 years.

In the previous three months, southern Madagascar has received less than 50 percent of the rainfall of a normal year. Another loss of up to 60 percent of the harvest is expected in the coming months. The Welthungerhilfe (WHH) reports that as of May 12, the drought-stricken region has been hit by a severe famine, with more than 70,000 children severely malnourished and 1 million people facing hunger, and WHH has appealed for emergency aid.

When it comes to drought, you can't beat China's Taiwan Province. As of May 2021, most of the province's reservoirs have fallen to critical levels, and some have dropped to 10% of their capacity, the worst drought in the province's 56-year history.

Compared to 2015, the worst year in recent years, the situation this year is much more severe, the most severe areas of the drought, tap water supply have been severely restricted, some areas tap water shutdown for two days, including Taichung City, a city of 2.8 million people, as well as Miaoli and Changhua counties are also threatened by severe drought.

Drought conditions in Taiwan Province, China

According to meteorologists, Taiwan Province's drought will continue until late May, the relief of drought needs 5 typhoon season water, if the typhoon season is delayed again this year, the people of Taiwan Province are estimated to go crazy!

What is the drought in 2021, the end of the world is coming.

Remember that some people left a message on social media saying that 2020 is just child's play compared to 2021, and although many netizens refuted this claim, the fact is that the situation from last year to this year is indeed much worse!

When everyone thought that the new crown epidemic to unveil over a page, India this real king bomb suddenly appeared, and the beginning of the daily confirmed 300,000 ~ 400,000 big hand, and have almost lasted a month, and no signs of abatement! On this scale please ask if you are afraid. And virus experts of Indian origin unapologetically say that the total number of infections in India may exceed 300-500 million!

When you think that so many people in India after the infection will certainly form the whole immunity, the virus has mutated, and last year's strain of the virus is mainly deadly to the elderly is not the same, now the rate of infection and death rate of young people has increased significantly, this is the sky to destroy India? Of course, it's not that exaggerated, it's just that with such a nuclear-armed epidemic powerhouse in the world, who can take it easy?

Far from it, the biggest threat in 2020 besides the new crown epidemic, but also global warming under the La Niña phenomenon! Since the winter of 2020, the world has been under the shadow of La Niña, a phenomenon that is the opposite of El Niño, the "Eastern Pacific Cooling Phase"

The atmospheric circulation over the Pacific Ocean is called the Walker circulation. When the Walker circulation becomes weaker, the seawater does not blow to the west and the seawater in the eastern Pacific Ocean becomes warmer, which is the El Niño phenomenon; but when the Walker circulation becomes abnormally strong, the La Niña phenomenon is generated. Generally, La Niña comes with El Niño, and the year after the appearance of El Niño, La Niña usually occurs, and sometimes La Niña even lasts for two or three years.

As early as the end of 2020, some meteorologists predicted that the persistence of La Niña in 2021 will cause the southwestern United States and Mexico to suffer severe drought because the strong westerly winds will take all the moisture away from the western Americas, while Australia and Indonesia and Southeast Asia will increase rainfall, Taiwan Province and Madagascar are somewhat out of the blue.

Predictions from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center indicate that conditions in the western United States will not improve soon. Hot and dry weather expected to last until late October

This La Niña is a little different from past phenomena. Global warming conditions are weakening La Niña, and meteorologists are not yet sure if this year's droughts in Madagascar and Taiwan Province are related to the weakening of La Niña, but there is no doubt that the catastrophic weather in 2021 will still refresh your eyes.

Meteorologists say that despite La Niña looming over 2021, this summer will still be the hottest year yet, with the real heat season yet to come, and the average temperature in May this year was a bit of a surprise, so maybe it's a warm-up for this year's heat season!

California fires are bound to happen on a large scale because after a while even if there are no man-made fires set, dry thunderstorms will happen, which are the arsonists of the annual California fires, and this year the dry season started even earlier, so the California fires are already scheduled.

And the hot summer will be followed by typhoon season. Behind the rise in global temperatures is a significant increase in typhoon duration, as large amounts of water vapor charge typhoons with more energy, making them 50% weaker after landfall, down from 75% in the past, which gives them more energy to cause more damage!

This is not good news, but the consequences of global warming have already taken their toll and the typhoons of the future will only get more violent!