Climate change brings extreme drought to Libya

Libya’s National Centre of Meteorology has revealed that the country is enduring one of the most extreme drought periods in its modern history, according to the Libya Gazette on December 1st.

New data uncovered a drastic decrease in Libya’s rainfall levels over the past three decades due to a discernible shift in its overall climate pattern. The Centre’s Research and Studies Office published findings displaying a major transformation in Libya’s long-standing rainfall cycle.

Historically, the country would experience a pattern of four wet years, followed by three normal years, then three dry years. This has now reversed into a pattern of five dry years, then only two wet years, followed by three average years.

Libya Gazette