Drought over? By bobf (Read 497 times)

[bobf]

Well, JR, it seems that after this week you could call the drought ended. At least for a while.

Some pretty sad areas south of you with flooding and damage from the storm. I would hope that in your area there would not be too much damage form winds but maybe some areas of flooding.

Time for a few days off the garden and take some time to relax or read. Probably not ride as there will be some messy roads to maneuver. Maybe even some break from those hot days too.

[JR]

Well no doubt Bob the rain is welcome and in some areas its too excessive. I get the National Geographic and this month's issue is "Whats up with the Weather"

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120820-extreme-weather-heat-waves-science-environment-global-warming/

I have two sons who live in the Dallas Texas area and Texas is suffering terribly, rivers dried up, old towns and cemeteries appearing from receding lakes that covers them and the list goes on, even a old town in Arkansas that was covered by a lake years ago has re-appeared to low water.

Ranchers in Texas are buying any excess hay as far away as Minnesota and we normally get 3 cuttings here sometimes 4 and with this rain front ranchers are hoping for their second cutting here before it gets cold. Good thing is with the mild winter we had they have leftover hay from last year that is if they haven't sold it to ranchers in Texas. In this addition of the Geographic is telling of ranchers who have sold their entire herd to keep the place from becoming like the area in Oklahoma of the 30's the dust bowl. Look at the picture of the enormous dust storm hitting Phoenix.

Right now it's raining here, a slow gentle ground soaking rain, Issac is fizzling out and even though it has drowned my neighbors to the south it hasn't dumped the predicted rain here that was forecast but every drop is welcome and precious. So far just in my area we've lost over 5000 acres to fires and it'll help settle that down. We are over 10 inches below normal rainfall, food of all kinds will be going up for some time to come, I'm buying anything that's on sale and filling up my freezers and extra refrigerators. They say this storm is pushing gas up and to me that's a joke but it has went from $3.19 to $3.89 in just the last few days, I've got 10 gallons put back for mowing and hope that is aboput to end for this year also. It on the average costs me $40 to mow my yard.

Also my fear is now we're going to have one of those brutal cold winters like 3 years ago, the kind that set records in this state that were 100 years old like 26F below 0 in NW Arkansas. Put a winter like that with a bad farming summmer and it's a formula for disaster.

JR

[bobf]

Well, JR, I was OK with that article while they talked of climate changes. But when they started to talk about Global Warming and the human caused crisis my attention diverted. I can not get excited about those claims as there are many scientist that disagree with the man made global warming. And within the federal agencies that get quoted so often too. I will go with the cyclic changes that are being recorded over centuries and longer as we study weather cycles more closely. The world has been very warm at times, tropical animals living in Alaska for example. Dinosaurs, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers. ferns, palm type trees. No industry back in those days. So how did all that happen then? I think we have many more questions than we do of answers. This GW stuff is just costing us lots of time and money for possibly no reason at all.
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[wolfhound]

We have gotten more than our share of rain this summer and it has been one of the, or possibly, the hottest on record for GA.Just filled up my Honda CRV plus
another 10 gallons in containers for the scoots and it ran me $80.30 for 20 gallons. Regular is going for $3.95 a gallon, up from $3.65 two weeks ago.
As Bobf says, global warming is real----and a normal non man induced event. Geological evidence shows that the earth regularly goes thru warming and
cooling periods and always has. In fact we just came out of a mini ice age in the last century. And I agree with him that we waste way too much time
jousting with wind mills.

[kczukiman]

Up here in the KC area we received a decent amount from issac. 2-8 inches depending on the area. Still 20+ inches down for the year.