Most people think of a drought as a period of unusually dry ... Researchers think a high-pressure ridge over the West Coast deflected moisture-bringing storms in 1934, causing the severe Dust ...

Water reserves are so low that Governor Jerry Brown issued a drought emergency earlier this month. Alexander Gershunov with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography says the high pressure ridge is ...

Just shy of 80 percent of the country is under at least abnormal dryness, with more than 45 percent in drought ... Thanks to a stubborn zone of high pressure that has parked over the Lower ...

A powerful ridge of high pressure parked over Northern California ... past it's taken two to three months of rainfall to break a drought like this. That's two to three times above normal.

The high temperature dries the soil and shrinks it away from the buried pipes. Increased water usage raises pressure inside ... Climatologists say the drought in Oklahoma might not end until ...