StormchaserChuck! Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 The drought is in the upper atmosphere. Wait until towering cumulonibus start happening again and watch how Drought is at the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 My yard is mostly brown. The drought is back. And as today's futility has proven, it's only getting stronger. Long live the Shenandaoh Valley Desert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormchaserChuck! Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 The high rainfall increases chances for -NAO Winter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 When will we get a drought update? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 13 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: When will we get a drought update? The 54 inches of rain on the year are just a mirage...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 6 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said: The 54 inches of rain on the year are just a mirage...lol it seemed like such a dire thing .. its not like typical cyclical climate variance could have solved such an emergency situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snownut Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 On 7/21/2018 at 8:34 AM, EastCoast NPZ said: My yard is mostly brown. The drought is back. And as today's futility has proven, it's only getting stronger. Long live the Shenandaoh Valley Desert. Real drought here, even by high desert standards. At my home the last drop of rain was on June 20, 2018. 12 month total 7.38" / so ready for some pineapple express storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 19 hours ago, psuhoffman said: it seemed like such a dire thing .. its not like typical cyclical climate variance could have solved such an emergency situation That’s why this thread is dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 18 hours ago, snownut said: Real drought here, even by high desert standards. At my home the last drop of rain was on June 20, 2018. 12 month total 7.38" / so ready for some pineapple express storms. Wow. I have almost 9 inches this month alone. What is your "normal" 12 month total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snownut Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 1 hour ago, EastCoast NPZ said: Wow. I have almost 9 inches this month alone. What is your "normal" 12 month total? Normal annual rainfall here at my west side home at 3,800' is around 12" / less than 10" east of town. There are insane differences 30 miles west in the mountains where 70" or more fall (mostly as snow) The coast ranges get up to 200" of rain per year which is where the "PNW is so wet" reputation comes from? Yes, parts of the state can be extremely wet but most of OR consists of dry sunny high desert plateaus. Had first measurable rain since June 20th yesterday, a whopping .03 in the bucket. LOL. Strangely the mountains are still mostly snowless, my other years here there have been September snows on the summits. I think it snowed above 8000' last night but mountains are hidden in clouds this morning so cannot tell yet? Photo of glacier fields from a hike I took on September 20th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 4 hours ago, mattie g said: That’s why this thread is dumb. At the time this thread was made, it was an attempt to get one particular doomsayer to stop derailing every long range winter thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 4 hours ago, mattie g said: That’s why this thread is dumb. 17 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said: At the time this thread was made, it was an attempt to get one particular doomsayer to stop derailing every long range winter thread. Yep...it was an attempt to corral all the dumb into this one thread. ETA: just so a debate doesn't start up I know when this thread started it was dry...and it was worth noting it...but it was fairly typical variance that happens a couple times a decade and not the emergency situation worth derailing EVERY discussion in every thread one person was making it out to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 3 hours ago, North Balti Zen said: At the time this thread was made, it was an attempt to get one particular doomsayer to stop derailing every long range winter thread. I know...and you confirmed that the thread is dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 I'm still annoyed that the dry period to start July nuked my grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Run flee scurry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDIII Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Can't even manage some severe with a frontal passage. Red Flag warnings surely will be hoisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Figured we should bump this thread since we are discussing drought conditions again already in the main thread lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Here we go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 15 hours ago, yoda said: Figured we should bump this thread since we are discussing drought conditions again already in the main thread lol We are??? Definitely NOT here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 hour ago, wxdude64 said: We are??? Definitely NOT here..... Hey, good morning out there in Alleghany County! You folks have been so lucky during the past 30 days with many locations receiving 125% of normal qp. Compare Alleghany to Augusta where many locations are at less than 50%. It is somewhat silly to have this old thread posted again at this time. No intelligence whatsoever. A topsoil moisture deficit is NOT DROUGHT. If the current precipitation pattern continues for the next 60 days, large portions of Virginia will indeed have slipped into agricultural drought. We are not there yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 It hasn’t rained here in about 20 minutes. Good thing we are already sheltering in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 hour ago, psuhoffman said: It hasn’t rained here in about 20 minutes. Good thing we are already sheltering in place. There's always a bright side to adversity! The .02" that I received last Friday night left water standing all over my lawn. Squish! Squish! as I walked across the back lawn. I squatted down and simply used my bar of soap to wash my hands in the standing water. I didn't have hot water, therefore I washed and rinsed for 40 seconds instead of 20 to get rid of any covid-19, then got my dispenser out and applied 70% to finish the job, just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round Hill WX Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, stormy said: There's always a bright side to adversity! The .02" that I received last Friday night left water standing all over my lawn. Squish! Squish! as I walked across the back lawn. I squatted down and simply used my bar of soap to wash my hands in the standing water. I didn't have hot water, therefore I washed and rinsed for 40 seconds instead of 20 to get rid of any covid-19, then got my dispenser out and applied 70% to finish the job, just in case. You’re odd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 5 hours ago, Round Hill WX said: You’re odd.... I am not odd. I simply replied to PSU in a jovial fashion. You are odd to not understand that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, stormy said: I am not odd. I simply replied to PSU in a jovial fashion. You are odd to not understand that.. A small area receiving 50-75% of normal precip for 1-2 months isn’t that significant. That happens quite frequently. For some reason no one makes a big deal everytime we get 150% of qpf in a 60 day period. The drought thing is overblown almost everytime it comes up. We haven’t had a true emergency level drought in a long time. The droughts being trumpeted lately are just typical variance that happens several times a decade. And before some brings up water restrictions...just because some localities didn’t properly plan their water usage when zoning doesn’t mean it’s a true anomalous drought everytime they run out of water due to poor planning and over population for the local water availability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 33 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: A small area receiving 50-75% of normal precip for 1-2 months isn’t that significant. That happens quite frequently. For some reason no one makes a big deal everytime we get 150% of qpf in a 60 day period. The drought thing is overblown almost everytime it comes up. We haven’t had a true emergency level drought in a long time. The droughts being trumpeted lately are just typical variance that happens several times a decade. And before some brings up water restrictions...just because some localities didn’t properly plan their water usage when zoning doesn’t mean it’s a true anomalous drought everytime they run out of water due to poor planning and over population for the local water availability. It may very well happen several times in a decade. That certainly doesn't justify many wanting to ignore a climatic anomaly as if it doesn't exist. People guilty of this are ill informed. If D.C. receives 8 or 10 inches of snow a few times a decade, this board goes nuts. If a moisture deficit exists nearby, this board foolishly wishes to deny or ignore it unless it hasn't rained at Reagan for 60 days. That is quite amusing!! Properly planning water usage or zoning has nothing to do with this. Poor planning and over population???? Your premise is nowhere close. D.C./Baltimore is a small insignificant area. Half of Virginia is significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 2 hours ago, stormy said: It may very well happen several times in a decade. That certainly doesn't justify many wanting to ignore a climatic anomaly as if it doesn't exist. People guilty of this are ill informed. If D.C. receives 8 or 10 inches of snow a few times a decade, this board goes nuts. If a moisture deficit exists nearby, this board foolishly wishes to deny or ignore it unless it hasn't rained at Reagan for 60 days. That is quite amusing!! Properly planning water usage or zoning has nothing to do with this. Poor planning and over population???? Your premise is nowhere close. D.C./Baltimore is a small insignificant area. Half of Virginia is significant. You might want to learn how to read that map before using it to make a point... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 8 hours ago, psuhoffman said: You might want to learn how to read that map before using it to make a point... Significant areas with only 80-95% of normal over a 90 day period? that's some serious shiit. My yard is only at 115. I am beginning to worry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 58 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said: Significant areas with only 80-95% of normal over a 90 day period? that's some serious shiit. My yard is only at 115. I am beginning to worry. You're such a lucky fellow, why should you worry? Be thankful you don't live in D.C. where that Democratic mayor (Muriel Bowser) suffers from??? Threatening people with 90 days in jail and a $5000 fine for leaving their homes!!!!!! Back to the here and now, my yard is at 38% for March. But, I am heartened this morning since my 48 hr. 5 model blended qpf has increased from .22 yesterday to .38 this morning. That is a step in the right direction to ameliorate my 2.35" deficit for March. Oh, by the way for PSU, the county hasn't zoned those corn and soybean fields to mandate that they properly utilize available moisture!!! Hilarious!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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