The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) in June predicted areas in the United States where drought would most likely hit. The image above shows that much of the southern portion of the country including all if not most of Texas within the extremely dry conditions. This prediction was done at the beginning of summer and missed much of the actual drought that hit southern Wisconsin. The image below shows what the real drought from this past summer.
This natural hazard represents a developmental paradigm because it will have an impact on the people living in these areas. Also looking at the drought and why it is developmental paradigm it is evident that the people hardest hit were the ones living in the great plains where much of the country's agriculture is located. To make this a complexity paradigm it is necessary to see how this affected crop yields and food prices for the US. The number of farmers with crop insurance is also an important factor because the areas that were hardest hit are not usually affected by drought. These are the few ways how nature affects humans on a big scale.
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