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California drought: Scientists puzzled by persistence of blocking 'ridge'
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 1-21-14 | Gloria Goodale

Posted on 01/21/2014 10:06:23 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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1 posted on 01/21/2014 10:06:24 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Maybe global warming is for real. Maybe conservative deniers have been wrong.


2 posted on 01/21/2014 10:11:22 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Geoengineering, they been spraying the crap out of the skies ,, messing with jetstreams has consequences


3 posted on 01/21/2014 10:12:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Fiji Hill

My vote is for “the wrath of God.”


4 posted on 01/21/2014 10:16:57 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

ManBearPig’s fault.


5 posted on 01/21/2014 10:17:25 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fiji Hill

God will punish any nation that embraces sin and crosses it into sodomy. 9/11/2001 was our first shaking. Financial implosion in 2008 is our second shaking. Our third shaking will be in 2015. Each shaking will be worst then the one before. If nation does not repent, shaking will keep happening every 7 years till nation is destroyed.


6 posted on 01/21/2014 10:18:35 PM PST by Fee
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7 posted on 01/21/2014 10:23:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Fukushima.


8 posted on 01/21/2014 10:24:48 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I think maybe long droughts are not unusual in California. I had found out some years ago that there was a 25 year drought in CA in the second half of the 1800s. It killed off the cattle industry. In geologic terms, maybe that’s a thing that comes along every 100-150 years, or something.

Kinda wish we had gone for some desalinization plants, instead of the “high speed rail” project.


9 posted on 01/21/2014 10:25:42 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Fiji Hill

you forgot the /sarc tag.


10 posted on 01/21/2014 10:33:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

HAARP...


11 posted on 01/21/2014 10:37:17 PM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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To: married21

The state can’t gobble up vast swaths of real estate through eminent domain with desalinization plants.


12 posted on 01/21/2014 10:37:42 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
"My vote is for “the wrath of God.”

Though God causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike, California is a state that has infected the entire world with pornography, homosexuality, drugs, adultery, cults, you name it. And when you do blatent feces like this:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/11/18/sarah-silverman-abortion-fundraiser

I can't think of more "in your face" against God at all.

13 posted on 01/21/2014 10:40:10 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The unseasonal balmy but dry weather is the result of an equally unprecedented high pressure ridge lurking offshore and blocking the typical winter storms needed to drop precipitation all along the West Coast.

I wonder if the high off the Pacific Coast is related to the low bearing down over the Midwest (and bringing polar air with it). Maybe the regular "storm door" will open on the West Coast once the low in the Midwest disappears.

14 posted on 01/21/2014 10:40:53 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Fiji Hill

If the Earth were warming, there would be more precipitation, not less.


15 posted on 01/21/2014 10:42:01 PM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Not that unusual, I've seen it at least a dozen times in my lifetime.

Get an early rain and you can count on a dry season in So. California.

Having spent my entire life in the construction industry i’m conscious of weather patterns where most people can't remember from one year to the next.

16 posted on 01/21/2014 10:42:44 PM PST by dalereed
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Looking forward to the late February storm that pretty much always brings snow to Oak Glen... then take the kids to build a snowman at the schoolyard. Seems to always come late February regardless.


17 posted on 01/21/2014 10:48:42 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: married21

During the Middle ages, California had a drouth that lasted a hundred years. Nothing more unpredictable than the weather, except the workings of a human brain.


18 posted on 01/21/2014 10:50:02 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It is a ridge.

Why it dynamite the damned thing and free the water it holds the

We still got the pacific ocean. It’s not like we’re gonna run outta water soon....


19 posted on 01/21/2014 10:50:51 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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We will still get some spring rain below the Tehathapies s/p? but not a whole lot.
20 posted on 01/21/2014 10:53:36 PM PST by dalereed
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