Drought

[masraum]

Originally Posted by IROC

It's feast or famine here. We went over two weeks with no measurable rain in May and now we are having heavy rains every day. Dew points have skyrocketed into the 70s. Very humid. Here's a pic I just took of my office window - condensation on the windows (and everything else) is standard now:

There's a guy with a very nice weather station <1.5miles north of me. I assume the rain that his station is reporting is probably fairly indicative of what we've had. In the last 6-8 weeks, he's had 15-20" of rain. If I go walk in my yard, the ground is very soft. The past couple of days when I get up in the morning all of the windows in the house are fogged up or covered in condensation. The dew point is 78º

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is no drought in our area of Oklahoma.

https://www.drought.gov/states/oklahoma

There are some patchy areas of drought. Just use the link I posted and change the state name and it will pull up any state.

That's a cool URL, thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by Pedro '84 Coupe

We are blessed with plenty of water and rain in Louisiana (maybe too much at times), although some of the aquifers are being depleted faster than many folks would like.

I worked in Lubbock on a project 10 years ago and I was amazed at how the farmers were able to grow anything out there. Most of the water came from the Ogallala aquifer and there was circular and drip irrigation and other pretty ingenious methods to irrigate the cotton etc. I really admired those folks' tenacity and ingenuity. Really great people out there.

At the time there were some bad floods in the Midwest from the Mississippi River so I wondered why couldn't the excess water be channeled somehow to the arid parts of the country. Turns out in the 1950s or 60s the feds began trying to expropriate land to create just such a channel to supply Lubbock and the surrounding area with water. I didn't believe it until I saw the right-of-way deeds in the public records. The channel was never built but the idea was there.

That's very interesting.

It looks like the western third of Texas is still very dry.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Weather here for the last few years has had the regular spring thunderstoms MIA.
Finally getting some now.

There are people that study tree rings, date them, map the location.
By finding patterns that match the recent present and comparing them to a pattern match in the past, a possible prediction of the next few years can be made.
Interesting stuff.

I saw this same concept charted out a few years ago. We may hate to admit it but this is the natural cycle of the earth’s weather patterns and we have no control over it.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Lake Powell will drop 32 more feet with this summers draw.
Lake Mead down 130 feet since the 90's when last full.

Cali Fire Fighter unions want nothing to do with experienced prison guys, that white guy country club will never change. H.S diploma and you get a six digit income with pension, NO chance for anybody to join but relatives due to rampant nepotism.

Water is for fighting over and whisky is to drink

[thor66]

Fire danger has nothing to do with how they manage water resources

[jyl]

When the smoke and ash start this summer, I figure all those N95 masks, respirators and air purifiers I bought for Covid will come in handy . . .