Is the Drought in the Southwest Permanent? New models foretell more dry years ahead

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1. All the way back in the 1980s, one of my professors was explaining how global warming would strengthen and expand the “Hadley Cells” which drive the ring of deserts a bit N and S of the respective tropics. So re the headline question, *yes, is anyone surprised?*

2. If anyone wants a perspective on this and how long we knew about this read Cadillac Desert by Mark Reisner in 1986. 

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