Cool and wet start on summer
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Cool and wet start on summer
Nearly 5 inches rain yesterday; 3 inches before dawn and 1.75 inches in the afternoon. More forecast for coming days.
Plus a welcome 65 degrees low overnight.
For the past 18 months, this part of Texas is way above in average rainfall and way below in average temperature and it is summer!
Maybe these are some effects of the fact that solar activity is at a low compared to recent years (Solar Minimum)?
If so, we should plan for a few more decades of the same, as historically, such solar driven weather is a long time coming and a long time going.
I reckon on placing more emphasis on flood control than in the past.
Plus a welcome 65 degrees low overnight.
For the past 18 months, this part of Texas is way above in average rainfall and way below in average temperature and it is summer!
Maybe these are some effects of the fact that solar activity is at a low compared to recent years (Solar Minimum)?
If so, we should plan for a few more decades of the same, as historically, such solar driven weather is a long time coming and a long time going.
I reckon on placing more emphasis on flood control than in the past.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
Pretty normal here in the Northern Chihuahuan desert of south-central New Mexico. A cloud or two, but otherwise blue skies and 90s for the next 10 days and probably up to the Fourth of July, when the Monsoon pattern begins to arrive. That said, we have had about 2.5 inches so far this year; normal is 2 inches. I just flew up from El Paso to Des Moines for my daughter's wedding this weekend, and I was impressed by all the green I saw -- and all those full reservoirs.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
Here in the NE we are looking at another wetter than average year, last year I think we had almost 180 days of rain. It sucks as far as doing outdoor activities but the water table is high and the fishing is good!
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
Two years ago we were in a 5-year drought.crs wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:40 am Nearly 5 inches rain yesterday; 3 inches before dawn and 1.75 inches in the afternoon. More forecast for coming days.
Plus a welcome 65 degrees low overnight.
For the past 18 months, this part of Texas is way above in average rainfall and way below in average temperature and it is summer!
Maybe these are some effects of the fact that solar activity is at a low compared to recent years (Solar Minimum)?
If so, we should plan for a few more decades of the same, as historically, such solar driven weather is a long time coming and a long time going.
I reckon on placing more emphasis on flood control than in the past.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
In my 20 years in Texas, I am getting used to the weather changing suddenly. Right now, it is as wet as I can remember. It has been wet before. Back about 2007, maybe 2006 or 2008, I remember Bardwell lake being over the spillway for a month. It is not that high now, but the ground seems more saturated. Between then and now we have had a drought or two. Long term models have failed to predict these cycles.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
I live up in the wasatch mountains of Utah, this year our winter was better than it has been for at least the last few years, nothing like the distant past, but the spring/summer has been pretty wet, we have only had a handful of days with no rain, and up until a couple of days ago it rained every day for a month, pretty good for a “high desert”
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
Our stretch of dry 90s looks to be coming to a close in a week or so, with conditions in the Gulf beginning to favor our summer monsoon.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
No problem....if we just elect a Dumbascrap next time, the weather/climate will return to perfect.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
Well below normal here in rainy Oregon. So far this month we've had a total of 1/4" of rain. But supposed to start raining today, and get rain the next few days.
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
More dry and hot here. Have an 8,000-acre wildfire burning the northeast corner of the Capitan Wilderness, zero containment, with heavy air tanker traffic out of the Alamogordo airport. Should start seeing some Gulf of Mexico moisture in the next 48 hours.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6397
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Re: Cool and wet start on summer
We have had plenty of years with much more total rainfall than we have had for the past 2.
But I have never seen it spaced out so "perfectly" like this.
It rains to the point of running off, then quits. Then as soon as it looks like it might dry up a bit, it rains again.
It usually takes a 5 or 6 inch rain to make my bar ditch run water. Now a sprinkle gets it going.
My best crop of vegetation in the yard is moss this year. May plant some cypress trees.
My new tractor I bought last October has less than 10 hours on it. It's 4X4, so I can use it if I want to, but I leave ruts everywhere I go.
It simply will not stop raining. Had 5 inches 2 days ago. Can't mow an it's too cool for MSMA to work efficiently.
My dog is growing gills.
On the bright side....the splashes in the water let me know right quick I am shooting too low.
But I have never seen it spaced out so "perfectly" like this.
It rains to the point of running off, then quits. Then as soon as it looks like it might dry up a bit, it rains again.
It usually takes a 5 or 6 inch rain to make my bar ditch run water. Now a sprinkle gets it going.
My best crop of vegetation in the yard is moss this year. May plant some cypress trees.
My new tractor I bought last October has less than 10 hours on it. It's 4X4, so I can use it if I want to, but I leave ruts everywhere I go.
It simply will not stop raining. Had 5 inches 2 days ago. Can't mow an it's too cool for MSMA to work efficiently.
My dog is growing gills.
On the bright side....the splashes in the water let me know right quick I am shooting too low.
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