Drought-stricken California has been drenched with torrential rains.

遭受旱灾的加州已被暴雨淋湿。

Researchers project that drought risk in California will only get worse as global temperatures rise.

研究人员认为，随着全球气候升温，加州的旱灾风险将变得越越大。

From too much water to too little, to pests, a lot can happen.

灾、旱灾，还有病虫害，存在各种不确定因素。

This graph shows Texas droughts over the past thousand years.

这张图表显示了过去一千年的多次旱灾情况。

And it was a bad drought year in 1976.

1976年是旱灾特别严重的一年。

We've seen more and bigger floods, fires, droughts, and storms.

我们正在见证愈演愈烈的洪水、火灾、旱灾、暴风雨。

But after that one desiccating summer, 66% said they'd been seeing worsening droughts for decades.

但是在那个干燥的夏天之后，66% 的人说他们目睹了几十年糕的旱灾。

They estimate this is the worst drought in California in over twelve hundred years.

他们估计这是加州一千二百多年严重的旱灾。

Researchers tallied all drought-related stories from nine major newspapers from 2005 to 2015.

研究人员统计了9家主要报纸在2005年至2015年发表的所有旱灾相关报道。

They also counted Google queries, and saw drought-related searches spike as more news appeared.

他们还统计了谷歌搜索量，他们发现，有关旱灾的搜索随新闻报道的增多而上升。

The drought is affecting life in other ways as well.

此次旱灾还在其他方面影响着人们的生活。

" And where there were droughts, there might be floods."

“哪里有旱灾，哪里就可能有洪水。”

A drought occurs when there hasn't been much rain for a long time.

长时间降雨较少，就会出现旱灾。

" We've had dry stuff but not like this, " he said.

" 我们经历过旱灾，但没有像这样严重的" 。

And the peak of summer saw droughts of devastating intensity.

而盛夏巅峰又有异常严重的旱灾。

The country's weather service said the region had been suffering from drought for 6 years.

该国气象局表示，该地区已连续6年遭受旱灾。

I'm concerned about the drought in Kenya.

我很关注肯尼亚的旱灾。

This is Tunde. He lost both his parents to this drought.

这是Tunde，他在这次旱灾中失去了双亲。

This followed nearly three years of drought and the driest year on record in 2013.

过去三年已经发生了旱灾，2013年是创纪录的干旱年。

Global warming, they say, will cause droughts, floods and rising oceans.

他们称全球变暖将带旱灾、洪灾和海平面上升。