Other forms of severe weather are also closely linked to climate change, including a rise in extreme precipitation events in some regions and increasingly severe droughts in others. (treehugger.com)
The projections also indicate an increase in the basin - averaged precipitation and an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events over the region as a whole. (pacificclimate.org)
There are more floods, more droughts, more heat waves, more extreme precipitation events. (discovermagazine.com)