Summer's over; and it was a dry one
Drought covers about 82% of the Western U.S.
🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫
Summer’s officially over. Meteorological summer, that is. And damn what a dry and hot and smoky summer it was. It wasn’t one of those summers with superlative maximum temps: The mercury in Death Valley only climbed to 124 on a couple of occasions this summer, for example, far off the record high. But in most places the average t…



