The guberment says that all of Colorado is having an extreme drought, which has me thinking that they must be talking about a different Colorado than the one where I live.
I have watered my lawn less than ten times this summer, and it is very green. What a freaking joke.
They still are showing central Tennessee in a moderate drought. I haven’t watered my lawn ever, and yet we could not be more green. What a joke… And complete bullshit.
I currently dwell (I don’t call it living, with my lack of resources) in central Tennessee, and I lived (really lived) in Colorado (Boulder and Fort Collins) a good part of my adult life — so I know just what Steven means, and you (the Colorado front range is High Plains, but Tennessee is just plain “jungle lush”, to me who lived in Colorado, although with a lot of rocky, rooty soil). Having a lawn in Colorado can give “High Plains Drifter” new meaning — although Coloradans should visit New Mexico, if they are sometimes inclined to complain about the modest but continuous effort required to keep up a “nice” lawn. And I endorse both of your conclusions (although you left out the “freaking” in front of “joke”, which I insist should be in there for accuracy). All of our institutions have been suborned by the incompetent climate consensus (this is my patented phrase, constantly repeated), so entirely the wrong people are in charge, everywhere (ah, NOAA, you should have hired me, thirty or so years ago, you might have some credibility now, among clear-eyed observers — but probably not).
There is no sense here, Seattle-Tacoma is as a matter of fact without rain for some weeks.
Tom Karl is not minding the store, he left, and a bunch of delinquent children came in and trashed it
He’s too busy posing and posturing at political events to look good so Obama will give him a job the next time around
Tom Karl’s job has been to provide “data” and “evidence” that “proves” that spending nearly a hundred billion taxpayer dollars on things like “cars that will plug into a wind mill” wasn’t “flushing the money right down the toilet.”
It’s a tough job, somebody had to do it I guess
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The Palmer index chart shown cannot be right for southern Arizona. It has been raining here and damp (for Arizona) all summer. This is actually motivating me to go buy a rain gauge of my own and record it for myself.
It has been humid and rainy here like I have never seen. Checking historic records, in the 1920s it was very wet in Arizona – so this year is nothing outlandish or special but certainly inconstant with drought.
I find it curious that there’s areas, such as in Colorado and Texas, where extreme drought purportedly borders no drought.
At least the northeast looks about right now.
It’s cold, windy, and rainy right now in the Albuquerque, NM area. Fall has arrived with a vengeance. It rained all day. The Palmer drought index is a joke.
I wonder, do the little lizards hole up, or do they slosh around in it? I remember them as a frisky, happy bunch of critters, and a substantial if not major portion of the population (but it was dry, when I visited — back in ’86, as I recall, the old man said).
Strange. Here in central Texas, (at least for this spot), no rain in August at all. Nothing this month so far but the weather forecast says I’m getting rain today. Finally. Grass at the house is 100% dead except for around the trees that were watered.
I’m sorry to hear it. Well, you can pretend to be a Pioneer, stoic and proud against the elements — that’s what I do when I lose a good lawn.
“The guberment says that all of Colorado is having an extreme drought, which has me thinking that they must be talking about a different Colorado than the one where I live.”
It is the Colorado that exists only in cyberspace.
It almost never rains in coastal Southern California in the summer. So how is normal rain (nothing) an extreme drought? Then you have extreme drought bordering with no drought (no gradations). Does that make any sense?
Last time I checked, in July, the Forest Services precip map for the Colorado high country showed snowpack/precip at 108% of normal (30 year avg., I think) with the north-central region at 152%! Looks like the overall would have been even more had not southeastern mountains around LaVeta/Westcliff had an unusually dry winter.
And Denver Water Board is crying “draught!” and has watering restrictions in place. What gives?
Oops. Make that “drought.”
Something was nagging at me and I just finally got it: Steven, you’ve been using the PMDI to bash gummint claims elsewhere about unpreccccccedented heat wave, drought, etc., but now you’re bashing the PMDI? You usually give ammo to your enemies, or is this just a one-off?
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