Change in rain, 2016

January 5, 2017

Topic

Maps / rain, Washington Post, weather

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused historic floods, and in other areas there was a lack of rain, which caused historic drought. The Washington Post has a map for that. Purple means less rain than usual, and green means more.

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