The One Minute Geographer: Precipitation Change

Change in precipitation from 1991–2020. (map from the CISESS Consortium at NOAA)

The climate is a-changin’. This map showing precipitation increase and decrease from 1991 to 2020 is worth thousands of words but the One Minute Geographer will rise to the challenge by focusing on just three takeaways:

1) Much less rainfall and many pockets of drought from the Rockies and westward. And not just the Rockies, but also the high plains of the southern Great Plains in…