The US Drought monitor has outdone themselves this week with their level of BS.
The southwest has been blasted with rain over the past week, and some areas received more than one-third of their average annual precipitation. But the Washington DC based US Drought monitor still lists them as exceptional drought.
The image below overlays the past week’s precipitation on today’s drought map.
It’s the wrong kind of rain. It’s man-made CO2 induced dry rain.
It was nice while it lasted… Here’s hoping that a tropical disturbance will come to Texas a few more times this summer… A few years ago, a storm dumped 19 inches in 24 hours in central Texas which sure did a nice job of replenishing Lake Travis.
I have to learn more computer skills. I like Steve’s flashing information.
Albuquerque had an inch of rain in 2 weeks. But yesterday a fellow from New Mexico Game & Fish was on the radio talking about bears coming into populated areas, emphasizing we were in a continuing drought.
They must have to show the rules on how they define these maps … Would be nice if someone could download the data and verify
Although the overlay map shows our area in “green”, rain has been spotty at best. We are still in severe drought here.http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSNY/2013/7/17/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
We were down about 8 inches last year and now we are down 5 inches this year. For those of you who don’t click on the links, our annual precipitation ( both snow and rain) is about 16 inches per year. It is extremely dry.
I think this post was about the entire Southeast and the map is for continental US, not just one city. I hope you get some rain soon though!
I understand that the post is about the rain in the southwest. However, the northeast part of Colorado is still very dry. The closest weather station to me is Sidney, NE. The weather station usually used for northeast Colorado is Akron, CO. Akron has had a little more rain than Sidney, but is still below normal. Drought is not eased by how much rain falls, but how much rain penetrates into the ground. ( A two inch gully washer will just run off and not penetrate the ground). With a deficit from last year and low rain totals this year, the soil moisture content is well below normal and that makes us in a drought. For reference, the distance between Sidney, Nebraska and Akron, Colorado is 75 miles. That is a large area of drought, and certainly larger than just one city.
Forgot the link to Akron, CO. http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KAKO/2013/7/17/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Akron&req_state=CO&req_statename=Colorado