The area of the US covered by drought is down 80% from the same date 80 years ago. This is the exact opposite of what experts predicted, and also the exact opposite of what experts say is happening.
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This is such a crock. My area of Central Florida is listed as “mid range” and there are places on my property that have not been dry since last winter and all my pastures are still squishy. The ground’s so saturated we got a flood warning from NWS a few days ago due to a storm that was no more than an average summer afternoon rainfall.
I don’t know how they calculate the “modified” drought index but here in Florida the modifications are opposing reality.
Meh, for what it’s worth, the value for my area, Oneida county in upstate NY, seems about right.
It’s about averaging climates. Compared to the regions east and west of you, your home is in a desert.
Averaging and a pinch of bullshit …. bake until done 😉
Clever, I assume you mean the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?
That’s the old way of saying it. But in modern climatology everything is about global averages, and two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is wetter than Florida. So Florida is in a permanent drought. Kommon Kore Klimatology.
Yes Niel, it is a crock. I am in mid NC
My fungi (puffballs) had mold growing on it and I am having to clean and wash everything in the entire house to get rid of the mold. I have developed asthma for the first time in my life too. The guy across the street who has been here since he was born was complaining all his leather (Saddles, driving harness and bridles) are covered in mold. So are mine and two of my saddles I have had since the late sixties and NEVER had mold on them till this year.
Gail, try a mild solution of acidified bleach followed by whatever leather conditioner yo use when dry.
“you use”
I am using distilled white vinegar and sunlight. Fungi hate acids and really do not like sunlight.
I don’t see it as very useful to make a snapshot comparison like this. They don’t convince anyone who is not already inclined to be convinced. It is easy to simply accuse it as cherry picking and then have it dismissed. Long term, comprehensive comparisons are far more useful, more informative and more difficult to criticize.
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What is that supposed to mean? By themselves, single point comparisons are next to meaningless. If alarmists had presented data in that fashion in an attempt to make a point, they could be fairly accused of cherry picking and worse. It has to work both ways.
I suspect that the number of people who accept the government drought reports as accurate are those actually experiencing drought conditions – i.e., very few. The rest will either not know of, not care about or not believe the reports of widespread drought.
Which is why only 8% of farmers believe the CAGW crock.
California receiving 5-6 inches of rain in the Northern mountains and foothills over the next 5 days. At the end of this cycle No CA 8 station will be at or above normal for the rain year. Not a peep from the media.
It’ll be up right after Fast-n-Furious, Benghazi, BLM abuses, NSA and FBI data vacuuming, IRS targeting and information sharing, Obamacare debacles, EPA overreach and collusion, nuclear Iraq, ISIS, Ebola response, amnesty for foreign criminals, auditing the Fed and the 2014 election results. By my count they should have a story on or about December 23, 2036.
Traditional media figures they do not have to cover those subjects since they have been so well covered by their competition in the new media.
… oh, and the truth about Mann made climate disruption.
Yes, whatever drought there is in California should be gone soon, unless it devolves into the dreaded droughtflood.
For several years, I have a very hard time believing the government analysis on abnormally dry to moderate drought to severe drought. To be sure, the obvious cases of extreme drought ususally do seem to match reality, But many times, my county showed up in moderate drought when riding lawn mowers were getting stuck in back yards because the ground was so saturated. Even now, the government analysis shows my area in “mid range,” but ponds and swamps have been higher only once in the past 40 years. There is small wonder why government analysis loses credibility.
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This is a really good look at serious weather pattern changes. We can immediately see the Oakey migration to the Golden State. I wonder if changes in the Jet Stream patterns are driving the weather.
I wonder if changes in the Jet Stream patterns are driving the weather.
In a word yes. The Russians have had an index for jet stream loopiness called the ACI for arctic circulation index for decades. http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y2787e/y2787e03c.htm#FiguraC
There seems to be a connection between changes in the amount of the sun’s energy radiated in the UV/EUV bands during solar maxima and minima and the position of the jet streams. Ozone and Cosmic Rays are considered the likely links.
Needless to say trying to find a cohesive description instead of bits and pieces is almost impossible in an age when CO2 is supposed to cause everything.
One suggestion is the more Ozone there is the more the jet streams move to the poles and the less depth to the Rossby waves (loopiness of the jet stream). What we are seeing at present is a long term reduction of about 40% in the EUV and FUV emissions and a reduction in Ozone.
The extra ozone absorbs more UV energy which heats the stratosphere around the equator more during solar maxima than during minima. See
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990412075538.htm (but forget the climate model babble).
That is thought to cause the shift of the jet streams poleward and reverse during solar minima. With the current low maximum in solar activity, the jet streams didn’t shift that far poleward as in previous maxima, thus giving different weather patterns.
The jet stream position is extremely important, as it gives huge differences in clouds and rain patterns and river flows: From the Nile, Po (Italy – Venice) and Portuguese rivers around the Mediterranean to the Mississippi in the US and similar in South Africa. See for the stratosphere-troposphere connection:
onlinelibrary(DOT)wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL024393/abstract
and for the river flows e.g.:
(wwwDOT)agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL023787.shtml (Portugal)
ks(DOT)water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/reports/paclim99.html (Mississippi delta)
earthobservatory(DOT)nasa.gov/Features/Ozone/ozone_2.php
wattsupwiththat(DOT)com/2013/01/31/ozone-depletion-trumps-greenhouse-gas-increase-in-jet-stream-shift/
(wwwDOT)climatecentral.org/news/ozone-holes-shifting-winds-may-be-sapping-major-carbon-sink-15530
The North Atlantic jet stream correlates with Solar output over a millennium
joannenova(DOT)com.au/2014/03/solar-output-correllates-with-the-north-atlantic-jet-stream-over-a-millenia/
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Then there is the Cosmic ray connection.
Atmospheric ionization and clouds as links between solar activity and climate, in Solar Variability and Its Effects on Climate
Stumbled across this at USGS. Makes you wonder where the CA and SW drought is.
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=dryw&w=map&r=us
Yes, the drought of the century (which was only 3 years long!!!) has ended in California. This is their only remaining poster child polar bear for ‘global warming’ left and it is gone and dead now and replaced by cool rains.
Oh, the horror! The warmists are grinding their molars in frustration and will need extensive dental work to fix this.