Western US megadrought turning into worst in 1,200 years

[bluemingidiot]

With soil moisture as the key measurement, they found only one other drought that was as big and was likely slightly bigger. That one started in 1575, just 10 years after St. Augustine, the first European city in the United States, was founded, and that drought ended before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

www.chron.com/news/article/Study-Warming-makes-US-West-megadrought-worst-in-15205571.php

[Jolly]

Aren't we entering a Maunder Minimum?

Wonder if that has anything to do with it?