From the morning paper, an exploration of what we mean by “drought”, with some stuff on the Sheffield Nature paper so talked recently in drought circles, along with the latest grim outlook:

“Drought,” University of Arizona research Gregg Garfin said, “is defined by its impacts.”

I realize this is a long-winded way of being very unhelpful to Ken, whose question started all my inquiries. My simpler answer, Ken is, “Depends on what you mean by ‘drought.’ ”