Megaflood vs Megadrought - What's the difference?
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(climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries.
*{{quote-book, 2000, Joan Whitmore, Drought Management on Farmland
, passage=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
Megaflood is a related term of megadrought.
As nouns the difference between megaflood and megadrought
is that megaflood is (geology) a sudden discharge of an exceptionally large volume of water while megadrought is (climatology) a drought lasting for decades or centuries.megadrought
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