By James Done, C3WE Science Lead and Willis Research Fellow

This guest blog is reproduced with kind permission from Willis. The original post can be found here in Willis Wire November 2014.

We couldn’t possibly have anticipated Hurricane Sandy in advance of the season, or could we?

By Debasish PaiMazumder, C3WE, NCAR

We’re all familiar with flash floods, but ever heard of a flash drought? Flash droughts happen in the absence of any clues from large-scale climate patterns. How can we predict them?