Experts say that New Mexico is in a permanent drought, as Red River, NM is experiencing their fifth wettest year on record, and Albuquerque just had their rainiest day on record.
Albuquerque set a one-day rainfall record Tuesday with 1.82 inches of rain, most of which came during a 2 a.m. storm.
The Mississippi is also running high from excess rain.
Looks like a Permanent Drought to me!!… LOL
Texas… New Mexico… just ass the Modals perdikted…
That, of course, just means there will be MORE TO BURN when fire season starts next year! STAY AFRAID! STAY VERY AFRAID!
You figured out the game plan! Keep the public scared.
“It is the aim of all practical politics to keep the populace alarmed, and thence clamorous to be led to safety. “H.L.Mencken
MONSOON RAINS! The desert loves this a lot. There will be a prairie dog population boom which means a coyote and hawk boom, too.
This is like the 1963 monsoon year I remember so fondly. That was the year a lady got mad at me when I sat on Socksie, my old roping horse, and I blocked the road up Sabino Canyon. ‘You can’t cross this road, mam” I said.
She said, ‘Little girl, get out of the way or I will run you over.’ I didn’t shoot her, I clicked to Socksie and he stepped aside, she drove into the river and I had to use the rope to save her sorry life. Sheriff Burr laughed when he came by to get her car towed.
She was very lucky I didn’t ride off instead. I was sorely tempted.
Permanent drought in the Southwest? Just another failed alarmist prediction. It’s been a mild summer here in Phoenix, with an early monsoon season. Just got back from a long walk with the dogs. Another beautiful afternoon and a spectacular sunset. Life in America’s least sustainable city is pretty good.
There is a word for permanent drought. It’s called desert. The SW is already a desert.
Yup. The desert evolved its plants in such a way that any drought is survivable. Nearly all the plants in the desert have evolved since the last Ice Age. Virtually none of them are from the previous Interglacial.
My definition of a drought in a desert would be when the cactus start to dry up. Are the cactus dying? I didn’t think so.
Speaking of Red River, this was the Red River 3 weeks ago going from Fannin County TX to Oklahoma. Not exactly dry!