A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters predicted that as climate change continues, droughts that bring hotter weather will be more likely to spread across vast distances from country to neighboring country. Enrique Vivoni, a professor of in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, and the director of ASU’s Center for Hydrologic Innovations, says more places will be seeing dry soil conditions that cause and spread drought. To prepare for dealing with the trend, Vivoni recommends developing systems to alert countries to conditions likely to cause drought that are similar to systems now used to alert us to hurricanes.

See also: Parched soils can spark drought a nation away, American Geophysical Union Newsroom
Parched soils can spark hot drought a nation away, Maven’s Notebook
Dry soils in Mexico trigger extreme ‘hot droughts’ across the Southwest, earth.com