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Post by missouriboy on Aug 23, 2022 13:38:05 GMT
North Texas has been in the worst category of drought for most of the summer. A stalled front and the remnants of the tropical low that moved into South Texas last week resulted in a drought busting 15" of rain for the Dallas Metroplex yesterday. Down here it is often said that a drought ends in a flood.
weather.com/news/news/2022-08-22-dallas-texas-flash-flooding-live-updatesSometimes the same here ... other times, a flood ends with another flood.  It's hard to find a hill on a flood plain. Location, location. location. |
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Post by ratty on Aug 23, 2022 14:46:00 GMT
Sometimes the same here ... other times, a flood ends with another flood. It's hard to find a hill on a flood plain. Location, location. location. We've always looked very carefully at topography since 1974:  |
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Post by flearider on Aug 23, 2022 17:14:47 GMT
now the south of the uk gets this quiet a lot drought .. yet it's always raining in Scotland.. a 400 mile pipe and things would be sorted .. not hard really .. pump it out of 5-6 locks southerners pick up the bill ... but instead they build a desalinization plant that don't work ...
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Post by ratty on Aug 23, 2022 21:35:09 GMT
now the south of the uk gets this quiet a lot drought .. yet it's always raining in Scotland.. a 400 mile pipe and things would be sorted .. not hard really .. pump it out of 5-6 locks southerners pick up the bill ... but instead they build a desalinization plant that don't work ... Same here. Building dams is totally taboo in case it disrupts a certain species! Humans are a species too .... sigh. This project has been proposed since the 1930s: New Bradfield scheme on agenda as north Queensland prepares for floods |
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 24, 2022 16:53:43 GMT
Have to wonder whether the pressure pattern setups that contributed(?) to the Dalton Minimum European drought(s) may have looked a little like what we have seen during summer over the last few years (2016, 2018 and now 2022). Lower sub-tropical pressure due to a decline in the strength of the equatorial Hadley cells that seem to be associated with weaker solar cycles. In fact, summers during most of the whole last decade seem to be characterized by drought of various intensity. There are other maps out there in addition to the two I've posted.
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts here we show that central Europe has experienced much longer and severe droughts during the Spörer Minimum (~AD 1400-1480) and Dalton Minimum (~AD 1770-1840), than the ones observed during the 21st century.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 10, 2022 20:06:23 GMT
A New Analysis by Dr. Roy
Lake Mead Low Water Levels, Part 2: Colorado River Inflow Variations and Trend
Check the Archive for August 2022
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 23, 2022 19:19:14 GMT
A weekly animation of the US 2012 drought. It is further west in 2022, but same location on the solar cycle.
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