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Caribbean Flash Droughts
Episode 312

Caribbean Flash Droughts

Weather Geeks · Weather Group Television

March 27, 202427m 1s

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Show Notes

Guest: Craig Ramseyer, Assistant Prof. at Virginia Tech

When a drought is depicted on TV or in movies, you’ll usually see parched farmland with wilted crops and a distressed farmer in denim overalls looking over them. What about the drought that resides in the column of air above our heads, what does that look like? Well, there hasn’t been a TON of research on that aspect of drought…until now with my guest today! Craig Ramseyer is utilizing a newly proposed drought index to predict and measure flash droughts in the Caribbean, which aims to trigger policymakers to enact drought mitigation faster and more efficiently.


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