I’m just back from a bike ride up in the mountains and took a couple of pictures along the way. Fort Collins is listed by the US Drought Monitor as being on the border between severe and extreme drought.
The picture below is my UHI measurement location. On a still clear night, temperatures are typically 5-10F cooler near the fire station on the right, than they are at the Safeway parking lot across the intersection (traffic light is inside the red circle.)
Compare today’s pictures vs extreme drought in Colorado during the 1930s
Looks mighty green for August in a drought. Spent 20 years in the Ft. Collins area, and saw many a brown August over those years,’72-’92.
Normally everything looks pretty burned out around here in August.
Same thing here Steven. We are in a severe drought, yet nobody would be thinking about it if the news didn’t remind us that we were in a drought. The grass isn’t as green here as it is there, but it’s sure not scary looking by any means. Just a tad bit of brown.
That the problem with so much CO2 in the atmosphere, it makes weather so predictable (/sarc), while it feeds the plants.
Those photos are not science, Steve. In fact, they are only ‘opinions’ as David Appell would say. 😉
On another note I am doing a clean-up and just found a low tide pic I took in the 70’s at my local rock pool. I’m going to go down there and take another pic at low tide some time soon and compare. Be interesting to see if there is any noticeable difference.
Let us know what you find, and if you need to abandon ship immediately.