Last updated October 15, 2021
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Northwest Drought 2015

United States

The 2014/15 drought in the Pacific Northwest resulted from exceedingly high temperatures notwithstanding normal precipitation—a drought type that may reoccur due to accelerated anthropogenic warming and aggravated by naturally driven low precipitation.

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 In what has since been nicknamed the “snowpack drought” of 2015, this Northwest drought was more a result of unprecedented warmth that caused cold-season precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow on the mountains.