More than 60 percent of U.S. in drought (Global Warming , We're Doomed, Film at 11 Alert!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/29/06 | James McPherson -ap

[NormsRevenge]

Shades of the 1930s is right..

My Dad used to tell me about farming in lake beds and such in Minnesota,, just part of a grand cycle ,, hang in there

[NormsRevenge]

Drought stricken corn withers in a field in Linton, N.D., Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)

[mainepatsfan]

We've gotten plenty of water here. I got caught in a damn near flash flood yesterday.

[cripplecreek]

We've had a great summer here in southern Michigan.

[Cindy]

Giggling...I think I'll go out and water my lawn for the third time today.

[Southack]

So what happened to all those cries of more hurricanes this year?!

...how quickly the news media forgets yesterdays claims of "The Sky is Falling!"

[NormsRevenge]

we need a giant pipeline from wherever the water falls to where its needed , I reckun.. better get a hold of Haliburton, pronto.

[Mike Darancette]

Is that why watermelons are so expensive?

[GeronL]

AP is on the doom & gloom thing again.

not a word about the solar warming period we have entered.

[NormsRevenge]

ap flunked science.. that's why they are in gloom and doom.

I wonder if the solar cycle somehow transmit some energy that heats up the earth's core and loosens up the magma sacs a bit and waaa laaa,, we have more volcanoes popping off of late as a result, just a cyclical thing..

[GeronL]

No, they are in doom and gloom because there is a guy with an R next to his name in the White House.

[NormsRevenge]

mmmmm,, OK. I'll buy that too. lol

[Conan the Librarian]

Here in Georgia we just had a massive rainstorm....I am not sure about any drought here. As for the rest of the country, when you consider that everything West of the 100th Parallel (basically Kansas and west) is a Desert it doesn't surprise me. Any place that has less than 10 inches of rain a year is a desert. Georgia is quite well here.

[VOA]

Shades of the 1930s is right..

Joe Bastardi (sp?) basically said this on FOX News in the spring.
Folks need to look at what the weather was like in the 1930 (my folks
talk about 1936 as hellish).
IIRC, even the Pacific Northwest dried up and burned a good bit.

You can't repeal the business cycle.
Or weather fluctuations.

[NRA2BFree]

We've had a severe drought in NM for the last few years. That said, we're now in what appears to be an extended monsoon season. All the fire bans have been lifted across the entire state. It rains daily now. :o)

[A message]

Maybe Ohio and Indiana can ship them some water. Those states have had more than enough this summer.

9 inches of rain in Ohio and Indiana

[Frank_2001]

The Dust Bowl is back! The economy stinks! It's Hoover-I mean BUSH's fault!/s;)

[NormsRevenge]

[epow]

We've had a great summer here in southern Michigan.

Same here in the Blue Ridge region of north GA. The highest temperature so far at my house was an 86 last week, and most days have been in the low 80s.

Today we topped out at 76 with showers in the area, and the long range forecast is for morning lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s and low 80s for the first part of August. Not too bad for this far south, but if you go a little farther down to Atlanta it can be pretty uncomfortable this time of year.

[cripplecreek]

Today was pretty warm, about 90 degrees and the humidity was bad but it is summer. If anything it's been cooler than normal here.