Associate Prof. Chris Williams of Clark University Geography tells The Christian Science Monitor that the record temperatures in California are connected to the states ongoing drought. You need evaporation to cool the landscape, he explains — and without rainfall or the moisture normally in the soil and trees, the sun’s energy goes directly into heating the terrain. During a persistent drought, he says, “you tend to have heat waves that are worse and persist for longer periods of time.”
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:00:02 +0000
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