Drought And Temperature
In the 1500's the drought and temperatures, they were significantly higher than usual. some places had really bad drought and temperature, like Swittzerland and Germany. Germany had very few rain and very humid. Were people tried looking for water because they were desprate. then in switzerland, their summers was burtal becasue there was bearly any water in rivers or creeks.
In California about 1580 was really dry. This guy named Sir Frances Drake said "if you go back thousands of years, you see that droughts can go on for years if not decades, and there were some dry periods that lasted over a century, like during the Medieval period and the middle Holocene [the current geological epoch, which began about 11,000 years ago]. The 20th century was unusually mild here, in the sense that the droughts weren’t as severe as in the past. It was a wetter century, and a lot of our development has been based on that."
They have said in the 1500's were as bad as the time to the 20th century and it has said that california has looked at rings of old trees in the state, which helps scientists gauge precipitation levels going back hundreds of years. (Wide tree rings indicate years of substantial growth and therefore healthy rainfall, while narrow rings indicate years of little growth and very dry weather.) that B. Lynn Ingram had said.