Posted on 08/12/2013 12:55:48 PM PDT by re_nortex
Now for some bad news: national meteorologists expect the drought to continue or worsen through late summer and early fall in Texas, and ocean patterns are troublingly similar to those during the “drought of record” in the 1950s.
Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its latest drought forecast. It predicts the drought will persist or intensify in most of Texas from July through October. But there is one exception — in Far West Texas, August and September rains are expected to bring some relief to an area from Midland to El Paso, according to NOAA meteorologist Victor Murphy.
(Excerpt) Read more at stateimpact.npr.org ...
Except for one of the comments, there is nothing here about AGW. Just attempts to forecast drought conditions based on normal meteorological science.
Let’s not project liberal propaganda into areas where is doesn’t really exist.
There were massive droughts in the 30s and 50, and no particular reason to assume they won’t happen again. AGW or not.
Cool and damp? Maybe up by DFW but that’s not the case south of you. It’s been in the 100s for weeks. Last week it hit 110. I don’t that’s cool in anyone’s book.
Texas has always been a hot and relatively dry place.
There are only one or two natural lakes in the whole state, and its a BIG state.
If AC had not been invented, who would live here?
I live in Wichita Falls, Tx, about 15 miles from the Tx/Ok border. Our local lake is almost dry, for the first time in my lifetime. The 3 lakes we get our water from are a combined 34% full. It’s very bad. There is little green ANYTHING here.
Last week I went to Meers, Ok, for a hamburger. From the time I crossed the Red River (almost dry) into Oklahoma, the scenery changed drastically. The grass was green, crops were growing, stock tanks were full, etc. It was astounding.
Oklahoma has gotten a LOT of rain this season, and yet, 15-100 miles South, we have gotten very little. Rain is a funny thing, it falls where it wants, and it doesn’t want to fall here. :-/
Severe drought can feed upon itself. The dryer it gets, the less humidity and evaporative moisture there is locally to form clouds. What moisture falls begins to be verga rather than rain, evaporating on the way down, never reaching the ground. This is how the process of desertification starts.
I’m in Wisconsin. We have gone back to the weather of the 70s, with 75-80 in the day and 50s, sometimes 40s, at night. We had warm years in the late 80s-late 90s.
Haven’t used the pool because it takes the propane heater all day to get it up warm enough to swim and then we lose 6 degrees overnight. And this is even with a plastic dome over the water.
The cool nights are delaying tomatoes from ripening, especially since they went in 2 weeks late due to a cool, wet June.
OTOH, my electric bill is lower. We used a/c for about a week or so in July.
Weather is always changing. Everyone needs to deal with it. I am all for these folks forecasting doom and gloom. It is then amusing to see them “hummana, hummana” when it doesn’t turn out as they predicted.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. -- James 5:16
The power of prayer is truly awe inspiring. Texas is a largely Conservative state populated with good, God-fearing folks. I think the Good Lord will watch over us and bless the dry areas with rejuvenating rain soon to fill those life-giving lakes. Indeed droughts may come and go but the Almighty is Eternal.
Those are ALL man-made lakes, by the way
This summer we’ve had better than twice the average amount of rain...”
Well, send some our way. We had .1 of an inch this weekend in our neighborhood, nothing last week. Just west of us they had almost 2 inches. Must be an umbrella over part of our area. The greater Houston area is at least 10 inches under normal but certainly not as dry as last summer.
I don't know what part of Texas you live in, but in the DFW area it's been blistering hot for weeks and weeks. I know, because I work outdoors in it every day.
I think our a/c has been running 24/7 now for at least a couple of months.
We haven't had nearly as many 100+ degree days this summer, but it's still hot as hell out there.
LOL
Yeah, I know it hasn't been as hot as in previous years, but it's been anything but 'cool'. Ninety degree weather will still cook your brains out if you have to work in it.
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