Drought in America 2013- How has it affected You?

[marktwain]

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...l_drought.html

the NOAA predictions are in for the spring of 2013 - a Wet spring for the Eastern half of th e United states- presistance & developing drought for theSouth West/ Central west...
How are you affected?

[marktwain]

NOAA site

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...l_drought.html

the NOAA predictions are in for the spring of 2013 - a Wet spring for the Eastern half of th e United states- presistance & developing drought for theSouth West/ Central west...
How are you affected?

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/us-dro...bruary-12-2013

[Half Pint John]

So far not at all. If it affects grain prices perhaps the cost of bread might go up.

[Mountain Man]

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...l_drought.html

the NOAA predictions are in for the spring of 2013 - a Wet spring for the Eastern half of th e United states- presistance & developing drought for theSouth West/ Central west...
How are you affected?

We're Central West, but...

Hardest on the farmers in Colorado, next on the ranchers, but also on the recreational businesses. Canon City is home to a number of very profitable river rafting outfits each spring and summer, but low water levels in the Arkansas pretty much ruin their bottom line.

There will be watering restrictions during the summer, but otherwise we do surprisingly well for a state that depends primarily on groundwater.

Biggest problem overall is the lessened snowpack in the
Rockies which feeds all of our streams and rivers throughout each year, nd which also causes economic losses for the many ski areas.

[Half Pint John]

Why is this weather related subject in PC? How does politics effect a drought?

Time to call Mayflower. A move is needed.

[marktwain]

Why is this weather related subject in PC? How does politics effect a drought?

Time to call Mayflower. A move is needed.

An' just WOT sort of Farmer are you,NAOW, i ASK?

ACTUALLY ,IT IS A PRETTY MAJOR EVENT- THE DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY.

No fodder, no cavalry horse.. no artillery teams-
No malting barley

[Naffenea]

Why is this weather related subject in PC? How does politics effect a drought?

Time to call Mayflower. A move is needed.

Actually, here in the Western states water, watershed, water rights and water use are huge political matters. In Utah this year it's been butt numbing cold but our snow pack is only at 81% overall where it should be. That means another crappy summer. Oddly enough the Sevier Mtn regions are above average this year, which is good, cause southern Nevada is a bit of a water hog.

[GCoyote]

Why is this weather related subject in PC? How does politics effect a drought?

Time to call Mayflower. A move is needed.

The gentleman does have a point. Moved to the Barracks.

[Cyberknight]

In the Southwest, our drought is going on six years and as a result the Rio Grande at El Paso is empty. The Rio Grande depends an snow from the Colorado Rocky Mountains and from springs further downstream, also mostly snow dependent. Due to international agreement, Mexican agriculture gets first release of water and there is no return into the river until well downstream from the city. The Rio Grande would not exist further South were it not for the Pecos River in Texas and the Rio Concho from Mexico flowing into the Rio Grande in the vicinity of the Big Bend.

[The Doctor]

Why is this weather related subject in PC? How does politics effect a drought?

Time to call Mayflower. A move is needed.

It's politics because of ludicrous claims like this...

An' just WOT sort of Farmer are you,NAOW, i ASK?

ACTUALLY ,IT IS A PRETTY MAJOR EVENT- THE DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY.

No fodder, no cavalry horse.. no artillery teams-
No malting barley

THE DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY?

The historical drought trend (or lack thereof) indicates that we just had the worst drought in a bit over 10 years (not 100) and that droughts of this severity occur about once every 8 years.

The drought of 2012 was pretty bad, about as bad as the droughts of 2000-2001, 1988, 1981, 1963, 1940, 1925, 1917 and 1910… But not nearly as bad as the protracted droughts of 1953-1956 and 1933-1936. And there is no increasing trend of drought severity or decreasing trend in precipitation over the last 117 years. We're less than 2 months into 2013... The drought status of the year won't be known for months.


No trend in drought severity or precipitation since 1895. Source: NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/CDODivisionalSelect.jsp

[rebpreacher]

The drought here I'd say is over. We were 7" too dry at the end of 2012. Right now, we're over about 2-3" now. So we're evened up. And today we've had a bunch of little ice pellets, and lots of freezing rain. Sometimes it came down hard.

[marktwain]

The good Doctor is forgetting

It's politics because of ludicrous claims like this...


THE DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY?

The historical drought trend (or lack thereof) indicates that we just had the worst drought in a bit over 10 years (not 100) and that droughts of this severity occur about once every 8 years.

The drought of 2012 was pretty bad, about as bad as the droughts of 2000-2001, 1988, 1981, 1963, 1940, 1925, 1917 and 1910… But not nearly as bad as the protracted droughts of 1953-1956 and 1933-1936. And there is no increasing trend of drought severity or decreasing trend in precipitation over the last 117 years. We're less than 2 months into 2013... The drought status of the year won't be known for months.


No trend in drought severity or precipitation since 1895. Source: NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/CDODivisionalSelect.jsp

Which Century we are living in,

Actually, there is a major political battle between releasing the water upstream on theMissouri to allow Barge traffic betwene Keotuck& Cairo,

With the States of Minnisota & Wisconsin resisting drastic draw downs on the eupper watershed.. Plus how much can be withdrawn from the Great lakes at Chicago... to feed in at Rock Island

[Jannie]

This past summer burned up our little tomato and pepper patch. The lawn turned brown for the first time in several years. Hubbie gave up on watering it.

We do not toil on our farm. Our renter does and we understand he had to sell some cattle because the creek had stopped running although it still had pools of water. It generally runs all year. When we were down there in late August, the hilltops were so dry that the grass crunched underfoot and you could see a lot of bare ground. The home county and several of the counties around it had “no burn” rules posted, so the grandsons could not fire off any fireworks. Their dad had to buy them paintball guns to keep them occupied.

We have 5.5 inches of snow on the ground right now and more is to come. One of the maps that I saw said that this snow storm will give us about an inch of total precipitation and we are in the range of 0—3 inches short. It will help the Mississippi to run at navigable levels well into spring as there is much more in northern Missouri.

When we had occasion the first part of February to cross the Mississippi at Bird Point, where the Ohio runs into the Mississippi, there were a lot of tow boats and barges tied up to the shores. I thought that was unusual and Hubbie said he bet it was because they could not go farther north up the Mississippi. We’d seen stories of how low the river was.

[rebpreacher]

We played over in Randolph County-around Chester, and I have NEVER seen the mighty Mississippi that low. This was 3-4 months back. I was shocked. It looked as if I could walk across it and I'd have my head above water.
It disrupted my cousin's work too. He's a tug captain, and it stopped his trips northbound up that river too.

[Jannie]

When we crossed north of St. Louis at I-270 could see big sand bars in the river south of the Chain of Rocks. Never saw that before. That was right after Christmas.