The Western Drought, Illustrated

[odanny]

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

 

[percysunshine]

El Niño and La Niña

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most important climatic phenomena on Earth.

www.noaa.gov

 

[odanny]

First picture: Past 12 months:
Record Driest ————— Record Wettest

Second Picture: Past 12 months:
Record Coldest ———— Record Warmest

 

[Oddball]

El Nino years are almost always shitty snow years...Drier and warmer than usual....So what?

 

[TNHarley]

Damn, maybe biden can tax us more to send cash to Earths weather system.
Throwing around money is his solution to everything else

 

[progressive hunter]

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Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

just curious,, do you have anything on how its supposed to be?? maybe an instruction manual on whats supposed to happen to the earth over the yrs???
cause this could be normal,,,

 

[excalibur]

Damn, maybe biden can tax us more to send cash to Earths weather system.
Throwing around money is his solution to everything else

Yep, as he just dumped (wasted) another $1 billion in a giveaway to Gov. Newsom for the failed "high speed" rail in CA.

 

[excalibur]

just curious,, do you have anything on how its supposed to be?? maybe an instruction manual on whats supposed to happen to the earth over the yrs???
cause this could be normal,,,

It is quite normal, even wetter than it was a millennium ago.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

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Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

No surprise.
It's the fucken desert after all.

 

[Darkwind]

Anyone else notice how wildly it fluxuated!

 

[odanny]

 

[skookerasbil]

Look at any US drought history map back to 1900. It comes....it goes.

Every climate k00k comes out of the woodwork during bad drought periods.

 

[toobfreak]

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

Sorry, shithead, if you can't even bother getting a link source without a paywall to read, then I must assume it isn't worth reading.

BUT I GET THE IDEA: Basically, the reason why most of the southwestern USA has scrubgrass and deserts is because it normally is more arid than in the East. Hot and Dry---- part of what makes Tornado Alley.

 

[Sunsettommy]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

Interesting maps, but what it your point of talking about it?

 

[odanny]

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

Sorry, shithead, if you can't even bother getting a link source without a paywall to read, then I must assume it isn't worth reading.

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BUT I GET THE IDEA: Basically, the reason why most of the southwestern USA has scrubgrass and deserts is because it normally is more arid than in the East. Hot and Dry---- part of what makes Tornado Alley.

That's why I posted the graphics, so that you'd have a visual representation of the drought without access to the link. The link was kindly provided by myself so you'd know the source of the graphics.

 

[odanny]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

Interesting maps, but what it your point of talking about it?

So you'd be aware of how drought stricken the West is, and how the problem is only going to get worse in the coming years. You can process the reasons for said drought however you please.

 

[Sunsettommy]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

It was drier in 2013, thus your source is lying as usual, when it claims it is the driest in 20 years.

From the NOAA

LINK for the 2000 to 2021 time frame

LINK for the 1895 to 2021 time frame.

 

[Sunsettommy]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

Interesting maps, but what it your point of talking about it?

So you'd be aware of how drought stricken the West is, and how the problem is only going to get worse in the coming years. You can process the reasons for said drought however you please.

No it is just part of the wet and dry cycle that is actually common in the West Region, your ignorance of this because you read the NYT birdcage paper.

You haven't made a point at all.

 

[odanny]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

It was drier in 2013, thus your source is lying as usual, when it claims it is the driest in 20 years.

From the NOAA

LINK for the 2000 to 2021 time frame

LINK for the 1895 to 2021 time frame.

Interesting link, and I appreciate your feedback, but there is one problem with your assertion that it was drier in 2013 than it is in 2021: Your climate data does not include 2021, it ends at 2020. The assertion that we are drier in 2021 than at anytime in the past 20 years is correct and factual.

But thanks for playing.

 

[Sunsettommy]

View attachment 500105

Starting in 2000, to 2021.

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself. (Published 2021)

Maps show that drought conditions are the most widespread and severe in at least 20 years, with reservoirs running dry.

www.nytimes.com

It was drier in 2013, thus your source is lying as usual, when it claims it is the driest in 20 years.

From the NOAA

LINK for the 2000 to 2021 time frame

LINK for the 1895 to 2021 time frame.

Interesting link, and I appreciate your feedback, but there is one problem with your assertion that it was drier in 2013 than it is in 2021: Your climate data does not include 2021, it ends at 2020. The assertion that we are drier in 2021 than at anytime in the past 20 years is correct and factual.

Year 2021 is only 5 1/2 month long, not a full year thus not included.

Here is the evidence that year 2013 is the driest year since 2000 again from the NOAA:

201301 - 201312

7.73"

1

-9.48"