%0 journal article %@ 0043-1656 %A van Garderen, L., Mindlin, J. %D 2022 %J Weather %N 6 %P 212-218 %R doi:10.1002/wea.4185 %T A storyline attribution of the 2011/2012 drought in Southeastern South America %U https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4185 6 %X The 2011/2012 summer drought in Southeastern South America (SESA) was a short but devastating event. What would this event have looked like under pre-industrial conditions, or in a +2 degC world? We find that climate change causes the region to be at a higher risk of drought. However, we found no large-scale changes in the half-month water budgets. We show that the climate change induced positive precipitation trend in the region outweighs the increased temperatures and potential evapotranspiration during the 2011/2012 drought.