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Texas Drought Forecast to Continue, Perhaps For Years [BARF ALERT]
StateImpact (NPR) ^ | July 19, 2013 | 6:00 AM | Holly Heinrich

Posted on 08/12/2013 12:55:48 PM PDT by re_nortex

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To: re_nortex

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.


21 posted on 08/12/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: re_nortex

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.


22 posted on 08/12/2013 3:36:35 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: re_nortex

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?


23 posted on 08/12/2013 3:39:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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. :-/


24 posted on 08/12/2013 3:52:03 PM PDT by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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To: Sporke

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.


25 posted on 08/12/2013 4:06:54 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: re_nortex

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.


26 posted on 08/12/2013 5:05:33 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Sporke
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. Rain is a funny thing, it falls where it wants, and it doesn’t want to fall here.

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.

27 posted on 08/12/2013 5:12:10 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

Those are ALL man-made lakes, by the way


28 posted on 08/12/2013 5:13:25 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: cripplecreek

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.


29 posted on 08/12/2013 6:03:15 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: re_nortex
Sure, it's been a tad dry recently here in Texas but July was cool and damp.

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.

30 posted on 08/12/2013 9:38:35 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Where did this weather come from?: The last time the DFW area saw a similar July cool spell was in 2007 when there was a string of 80-degree days, Dunn said.
31 posted on 08/12/2013 10:27:21 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex
July cool spell

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.

32 posted on 08/13/2013 8:45:34 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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