Environmental Science Current Event
The Floods in Texas
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Due to heavy rainfall on Saturday, May 23, Texas and Oklahoma had been experiencing major flash floods and also tornado warnings that led to 10 people dead and a thousand of other residents of that area being evacuated. According to the article from "Live Science," these disasters were caused by an El Nino pattern. Which is known as a natural climate cycle that brings warmer than average temperatures to the Pacific Ocean. Where in this case this pattern split apart, making these temperatures go one way north and one way south. These disasters also affected the drought situation in California because the storm came from the Pacific, passed California and Mexico and then led to Texas. This created the solution to the drought by replenishing lakes and other dry areas an this should happen in the next 4 months. This topic relates back to of what I learned in environmental science class about the water cycle of it is a continues cycle of taking and giving back the water. This disaster proved the giving back part and also gave back rainfall to California.
Question for Partner:
How would California change if this rainfall stayed consistent for the next 4 months?
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