Is the drought really over?
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Is the drought really over?
Here in the Kansas City area, we have had one of the driest summers on record. In fact, July set a record for "the" driest July on record with under 1/4" of rainfall. Even the largest of trees was starting to show signs of stress and many trees have already dropped their leaves.
Just as we were getting ready to close out August with the holiday weekend, it started raining. For some, it actually began thursday, for others friday night. As of Sunday morning we have accumulated 6-9" or rain and it's been raining all day off and on. I don't know what the final tally is but I hope this means we are done with our long, hot, dry summer. In two days we've caught up for the whole summer!!!
Just as we were getting ready to close out August with the holiday weekend, it started raining. For some, it actually began thursday, for others friday night. As of Sunday morning we have accumulated 6-9" or rain and it's been raining all day off and on. I don't know what the final tally is but I hope this means we are done with our long, hot, dry summer. In two days we've caught up for the whole summer!!!
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Is the drought really over?
We got 5' of water over the turnpike south of Emporia too and people are missing.
The trees in my yard dropped just enough leaves to plug the gutters up also.
At my house we hadn't received any rain more than a sprinkle for two months. The water bill is going to be bad for keeping my wife's gardens alive. It helped the trees also tho.
The trees in my yard dropped just enough leaves to plug the gutters up also.
At my house we hadn't received any rain more than a sprinkle for two months. The water bill is going to be bad for keeping my wife's gardens alive. It helped the trees also tho.
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Is the drought really over?
This year the monsoon hasn't really hit Phoenix very much...the lakes are starting to recede a bit too...we need help when it comes to our yearly rainfalls...Yeah, we're a desert, but we still get rain, and depend on it. So for us, the drought isn't close to being over.
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Is the drought really over?
well, we have had 6 inches today, and it is still raining, it could stop any time and i would be very happy
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Is the drought really over?
Denver got less precipitation this summer than Phoenix did.
Our reserviors are almost back to normal, but the drought is still on in CO. We're still way below average...
Hopefully it will snow alot this winter so I can snowboard without gouging my P-Tex. That way I'll be happy, our lakes will be happy, my lawn will be happy, and my industry (water well) will pick back up.
Pray for snow...
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Our reserviors are almost back to normal, but the drought is still on in CO. We're still way below average...
Hopefully it will snow alot this winter so I can snowboard without gouging my P-Tex. That way I'll be happy, our lakes will be happy, my lawn will be happy, and my industry (water well) will pick back up.
Pray for snow...
BDV
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Is the drought really over?
Here in the desert we got 3.5" of rain in less than an hour, our second '100 year' thunderstorm in four years. And we start water rationing this month. Snowpack runoff, not rain fills the reservoirs here.
The Colorado River, which furnishes a majority of the consumer and commercial water for AZ, Southern CA, Western CO, and NV, has been at historically low spring runoff levels for the past four years due to low winter snowfall in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Range. The water gurus say that even if snowfalls go back to normal levels this winter, it will take 3-4 years of normal or above normal snowfall to refill Lakes Mead and Powell and other reservoirs to near normal levels.
The Colorado River, which furnishes a majority of the consumer and commercial water for AZ, Southern CA, Western CO, and NV, has been at historically low spring runoff levels for the past four years due to low winter snowfall in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Range. The water gurus say that even if snowfalls go back to normal levels this winter, it will take 3-4 years of normal or above normal snowfall to refill Lakes Mead and Powell and other reservoirs to near normal levels.
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