After a parched late summer, the first day of October was a ferocious one in the region.
The action is confined to a single day near the end of parched summer, in which a calving cow wanders off from its herd and must be tracked down by its farmer, Gareth.
Meteorologists said Wednesday's storm was a good omen for Denver, which was mostly parched last winter, with only about 23 inches of snow in the city from September to May.
Parts of central Panama have been reduced to a dustbowl, and thousands of cattle have had to be slaughtered (not wholly a loss: they were already helping to make the dustbowl).In Colombia drought has parched 5,000 square kilometres of pasture and 2,000 of maize, sorghum and soya.
Close to 2,000 firefighters from other states have journeyed into the worst hit parts of Appalachia in Kentucky, which has been parched since September.
When the air was hot and the woods were parched last summer, the peak of the wildfire season in the West, these trained wilderness firefighters fought 13 forest fires in Arizona, including the one in June that half-destroyed the nearby village of Yarnell and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite team.
Drip irrigation--plastic tubing to water the trees' roots--would minimize the amount of water lost to evaporation and seepage into sandy soils, allowing trees to prosper in areas that are parched today.
After last year's dry winter and a parched, sweltering summer, reservoirs are depleted, streams are low, and snowpack levels stand at 41 percent of their historical average.
During a parched spell in 1976 and 1977, the state opened a Resources Evaluation Office, which responded to 4,400 letters, telegrams and postcards offering ideas.
It's horrible". It was the second major fire to hit a parched Southern California this week and comes as the region is experiencing the driest year on record.
The South African playwright and director got straight to the drama's dark, steamy heart in a production that renamed the play and relocated it to the kitchen of a parched Karoo farm in 2012.
