ASU meteorologist: Drought continues, despite record rain

When extreme weather occurs anywhere on the globe, media and researchers contact ASU professor Randy Cerveny, who serves as Rapporteur on Extreme Records for the United Nations/World Meteorological Organization, and in this connection is responsible for researching and verifying global weather records.

On Sept. 8, the extreme weather was all around us. In a report offered by NBC News, Cerveny pointed out that, while Monday's deluge will provide for short-term plant growth, it will do little to fill reservoirs.

"A long-term water solution will only be found in a healthy snowpack that's repeated for several years," Cerveny said.

Cerveny’s comments were also reported in other local, national and international media:

• Expert: Phoenix storm ‘one for the record books,’ Arizona Republic, September 08, 2014
• Arizona floods: Jan Brewer declares state of emergency, BBC, September 08, 2014
• Two dead after record rain and flash floods in Arizona, The Telegraph, September 09, 2014
• Threat of more storms clouds saturated Southwest, USA Today, September 09, 2014

Cerveny is President’s Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, an academic unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and is a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.