Worse drought in 1200 years? Worse than then 1275AD drought that lasted 25 years?
Worse than the 1834 Drought that dried up the High Plains?
Worse than the 1922 drought that dried up the San Juan River?
Worse than the 1929-1940 droughts of the Dust Bowl?
Worse than the 1952 drought that drove us off of the High Plains?
Tree ring data from the last 2000 years shows many, many more droughts in the American Southwest.
There is a reason the West has been called THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT for the last 200 years.
“... everyone knows that the west has been dry for most of the last couple decades....”
He’s right. It was just boring driving through endless hundreds of square miles of rice paddies in Utah and Nevada when I drove down to Las Vegas 40 years ago.