Although the media love sensationalizing the drought and fires in the Western U.S. with heartbreaking photos of neighborhoods devastated by wildfires, these events are not the result of a “climate crisis.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website and its Climate.gov website, based on the existence of La Niña for the second year in a row, issued forecasts in October and November 2021 that warmer-than-normal winter temperatures could be expected across the Southern tier and most of the Northeast of the U.S., along with drier conditions in south-central Alaska, southern California, the Southwest, and the Southeast.
“Widespread severe to exceptional drought continues to dominate the western half of the continental U.S., Northern Plains, and the Missouri River Basin,” said NOAA.
