Megadrought

Quick meaning: Megadrought is a noun meaning (climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries.

Meaning

(climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries.

Example Sentences

Severe water cuts were announced on Tuesday to western states in the grip of a severe “megadrought” that has dropped levels in the country’s largest two reservoirs to record lows.

The most severe droughts also tend to be the most widespread and prolonged, but fortunately these megadroughts are far less frequent than the lesser droughts which are vastly in the majority […]

But those newcomers need water — water that is vanishing as a megadrought dries up reservoirs and rivers across the West. […] It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.

Word Forms

• megadroughts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drought, drouth, dryth, drowth, druft, dekad.

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