Three days ago.
“How New Mexico is learning to live with the megadrought”
“The American West hasn’t seen a drought like the one its experiencing now in more than 1,200 years.”
How New Mexico is learning to live with the megadrought | On Point
Today.
” flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible”
Los Alamos, NM Severe Weather Alert | Weather Underground
Los Alamos, NM 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground
This is the same weather New Mexico has always had, alternating between very dry and wet periods.
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The Anasazi were wiped out by a seventy year long drought during the 13th century.
Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News
16 Jun 1994, 3 – The Fresno Bee at Newspapers.com
Thirty years ago, the New York Times knew that the 20th century was unusually wet in California, and that the Medieval Warm Period was global.
“Lisa J. Graumlich, who examines the ring patterns of foxtail pine trees and western junipers in the Sierra Nevada, has compiled a detailed record of the year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation over the last thousand years.
She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period, a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age, a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450 to 1850. A Crucial Question
“We can now see that these were global climate phenomena, not regional temperature variations,” she said. “The question is, how did we get those warmer temperatures during pre-industrial times, and what can we learn from those conditions about what is going on today?”
Western landscapes in presettlement era were very smoky places.
Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times
