Eli5: Where does all the water go during a drought?

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I know it evaporates but shouldn’t it it form clouds the will eventually rain back down?

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Like Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. A drought in one place usually means an excessive amount of raining in another. Sometimes that rain just falls in the ocean, sometimes the rain is over land, but the problem is that none of it is landing where the drought is. A drought doesn’t mean that rain has stopped worldwide, it’s just that rain isn’t being spread equally.

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