Drought usually originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time and is identified as one of the extreme aspects of the hydrological cycle. Because of its destructive impacts on human life, agriculture, ecology, and physical systems of affected regions, there is increasing interest in understanding changes in drought under global warming and quantifying the role of human and other external influences on drought.
Click here for original story, Warm sea surface temperatures and anthropogenic warming boosted the 2019 severe drought in East China
Source: Phys.org