During the current extensive drought, many water users are receiving only a small fraction of their "normal" entitlement.
The fire was one of 33 across the West, including 5 in Arizona, that have consumed more than a half-million acres in tinder-dry conditions, fueled by an extensive drought.
By the end of July, 63percentt of the nation suffered from the lack of rain, making it the most extensive drought in half a century.
It takes the rain with it, causing extensive drought in the western Pacific and rainfall in the normally dry eastern Pacific.
In 1988, America faced an extraordinary summer heat wave and an extensive drought that cost the country over $77 billion — at the time the most expensive "natural" disaster in U.S. history.
Damage to crops in the most extensive drought in five decades and the pressure of the November elections sparked some action in the U.S. Congress to bring relief to farmers and make progress on a generous farm bill.
And even though the Brazilian soybean crop was a record 1.91 billion bushels in 2003, production for 2004 and 2005 was well below potential due to extensive drought conditions in southern Brazil, with a prognosis for long term continuation of those drought conditions.
In contrast, zonobiomes I, V and VI as well as mountain areas were considered to be without extensive drought stress.
Besides the warming effect, El Niño has caused extensive drought in western Pacific regions [ 5- 7].
