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Arizona in worst drought in 50 years

pyonir

pyonir

Lifer
http://arizonarepublic.com/drought/

Man Arizona is so dry right now. especially south. this is the outlook for the week in Phoenix:

Tonight
Jun 19 Clear 81°


Thu
Jun 20 Mostly Sunny 108°/82°


Fri
Jun 21 Mostly Sunny 105°/80°


Sat
Jun 22 Partly Cloudy 103°/81°


Sun
Jun 23 Sunny 109°/81°


Mon
Jun 24 Sunny 107°/81°


Tue
Jun 25 Mostly Sunny 105°/80°


Wed
Jun 26 Mostly Sunny 108°/81°


Thu
Jun 27 Partly Cloudy 107°/81°


Fri
Jun 28 Partly Cloudy 109°/82°
 
It has rained on and off EVERY day for the past 2 weeks down here in South Florida...
 
Has Arizona ever not been in a drought?

BTW, yes, Utah has been in a drought for the past 8 years. Our lakes and reseviors are 30-40 ft below normal this year, and expected to drop another 10ft.
 
Err... we've got it all up here.

Ontario - Pouring rain for the last 4 days, today is the first nice day we've had in a while.
Haven't been able to turn the sump-pump off in the basement even today..
 
Originally posted by: Beau6183
Has Arizona ever not been in a drought?

BTW, yes, Utah has been in a drought for the past 8 years. Our lakes and reseviors are 30-40 ft below normal this year, and expected to drop another 10ft.
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yeah, it is pretty bad when a DESERT is in the middle of a drought!
 
I feel like it's been a "drought" in the south NJ/eastern PA area for as long as I can remember now. I beginning to think when they mean "drought" they are actually saying that the demand for water is exceeding the supply of water, not simply lack of rain.
And that perhaps it isn't that the supply (rainfall) is so outrageously lower than it's ever been, as much as consumption is outrageously higher than it's ever been, and perhaps we need to rethink just what constitutes a "drought" condition when you have a ballooning yuppie population who has to wash their Saab every week and water their lawn every 2 hours.
 
Kitchener, ON

Thursday, Jun 20
Mainly sunny
High 30 °C
Low 13 °C
Wind 15 km/h SE
P.O.P. 0%

Friday, Jun 21
Risk of thunder- showers
High 28 °C
Low 17 °C
Wind 5 km/h SW
P.O.P. 30%

Saturday, Jun 22
Variable cloudiness
High 27 °C
Low 16 °C
Wind 5 km/h SW
P.O.P. 30%

Sunday, Jun 23
Isolated showers
High 27 °C
Low 16 °C
Wind 15 km/h SW
P.O.P. 40%

Monday, Jun 24
Sunny
High 22 °C
Low 18 °C
Wind 5 km/h NW
P.O.P. 0%

Tuesday, Jun 25
Cloudy periods
High 23 °C
Low 18 °C
Wind 5 km/h SW
P.O.P. 10%

The weather looks pretty good here! 😛
 
Lots o' rain in Ohio. The last couple evenings at my place it rained and then the sun came out while it was still raining, it was so sweet!
 
Originally posted by: lirion
Lots o' rain in Ohio. The last couple evenings at my place it rained and then the sun came out while it was still raining, it was so sweet!
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Same thing here in MI. Big rainbows when that happens. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Yield
i would flip.. i hate extreme heat unless it's at least dry heat..

droughts are sh1t :disgust:
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It's Arizona. The humidity is probably like 5%. lol..

That's about as "dry heat" as you can get. lol...

 
Originally posted by: Beau6183
Has Arizona ever not been in a drought?

BTW, yes, Utah has been in a drought for the past 8 years. Our lakes and reseviors are 30-40 ft below normal this year, and expected to drop another 10ft.
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Well they are saying that it's only been 4 but it's worse than it has been in decades.

althrough the cooler days we've been having have helped.
 
Originally posted by: Pr0Hawk
id rather have that then rain almost every day for the past 2.5 weeks :|
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trust me, no you wouldn't. they are beginning to wonder if we will have enough water to make it through the year. livestock is dying. wildlife is dying. wildfires are popping up all the time. we didn't get our usual allotment of run off from the mountains up north, because they didn't get much snow this winter. so that means less water for them, and us.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Yield
i would flip.. i hate extreme heat unless it's at least dry heat..

droughts are sh1t :disgust:
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It's Arizona. The humidity is probably like 5%. lol..

That's about as "dry heat" as you can get. lol...
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yep, 5% today. but that doesn't mean that 109 isn't hot.
 
Same thing here in MI. Big rainbows when that happens.
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Last night there was a triple rainbow here. There was the regular one, and a smaller one inside that one, and then the reversed one outside the regular one. It was so cool! And it was raining enough while the sun was out that I could actually see the end of the rainbow between myself and a row of trees so I must have been pretty close to a little green dude or something😉
 
Originally posted by: kenleung
you get water from colorado anyway
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I don't think Colorado has a whole lot of water to give.

Here in Indiana, we've been above average on rain. My little county alone has already lost more than $1 million in corn.
 
I feel like it's been a "drought" in the south NJ/eastern PA area for as long as I can remember now. I beginning to think when they mean "drought" they are actually saying that the demand for water is exceeding the supply of water, not simply lack of rain.
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Probably so. Doubtless it has something to do with the fact that it's damn near impossible to build new aquaducts, reservoirs, and water towers nowadays. Between the NIMBY syndrome, required federal and state impact reports, and "environmentalist" opposition blocking simple corrective measures, so called droughts are going to become normal SOP in most places in the country, even where adequate rainfall isn't a problem.
 
The population has increased dramatically in Az.and cyclic droughts have been going on for thousands of years. The overall water volume hasen't changed much but the number of "water users" has.
 
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