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[bleep] rain and no rain is always a blessing here.

It pours or it don’t and when it does it’s bad.

Dry and hot here.

I was fishing on Lake Michigan this morning.Water at record highs.

I've often wondered why instead of our foreign military adventures we haven't spent our money right here. I would imagine for way less money and heartbreak we could have gotten Great Lakes water over the hump and into the arid West. Also considering all the angst over sea level and coastal erosion. We have mountains of rocks that could have been moved to build sea walls such as Galveston built over 100 years ago. We have plenty of water and plenty of rocks and plenty of people that should be working on it.

We actually have 3 straight days of sunshine forecasted.

locals been busting their asses trying get a 2nd cut in on their hay. Get it up before 3 days of rain return for this weekend

Fuggin rain is getting on my nerves. Been too muddy to go to the steel salvage and junkyards.

Am I the only one that sees the “severe drought” area and thinks, of course it dry there, it’s a fuggin desert! Places like Vegas, Phoenix and southern Utah were not meant for human habitation! Cracks me up when people say “It’s hot and dry here.” No [bleep] Sherlock!

Maybe it’s just me?

Elk Country

uhhh say what? you haven't seen the country I have seen. I buried my truck in flour dust last fall in the nevada high desert. vast areas have been burned. its like the grim reaper has been through and killed pretty much everything. jackrabbits, all dead, coyotes nearly all dead. heck even birds and flying varmints, nearly all dead. the drought is real, very real. look at the lake depths of lake powell and lake mead. the lowest since before they were ever full.

I live in the “exceptional drought” area of ND on the map shown above. I’m 47 and have never seen the coulee I live on as dry as it is now. It flowed water year round from 2011-2013 and this spring it was dusty and my neighbor dug 15 side dumps of black dirt out of the bottom of it to do some landscaping. Very little precipitation of any kind for 3 years now, this year being the worst.

The wheat is 6” tall and headed out.

The desert in SW Wyoming is as dry as I’ve ever seen it. Every beef cow, wild horse,antelope, deer, and elk I see looks pretty desperate for something to drink. Obviously they’re finding it from somewhere, or they wouldn’t be alive. But I bet they have to look far and wide.

You in the west?

Well...its not uncommon to be hot and dry this time of year.

True, but we usually get snow to make up for that in the winter. We’re a little short on that this year. Or spring rains, for that matter.

I am in southeast Arizona. We have had less than five inches of rain since January 2020. Normal would be 12+. Prickly pear cactus and barrel cactus are dying. Saguaros are looking pretty sick. Heard there are 20 fires burning in Arizona. Interstate 10 was closed yesterday between Benson and Willcox because the walnut fire jumped the freeway. Reservoirs are at record low levels.

Meteorologists are saying there is a good chance this year will be better than last year. They are basing that forecast on the fact that 1929 was the only recorded year that was worse than last year. They aren't saying whether it will be average, above average or below average. Only that it will be better than last year. Pretty safe forecast.

Understatement of the season candidate.

I'm waiting for the democrats to tell me what to think.

I heard 27 drops of rain fall on the deck cover yesterday from a passing cloud.

I doubt it ended the drought here.

Supposed to be 110 here on Sunday and triple digits for a week at least. Only 67 at the Oregon coast at the same time. Good time to be there and not here.

That sort of idea is why the Colorado River now disappears into the sand, well short of its original destination, leaving those who formerly depended on it downstream in the lurch, and politicians deciding winners and losers where the stolen water ends up. IMO, desalinization of seawater is the logical solution to Kali’s problem, but that takes a lot of energy, and we all know how evil most energy is. Dams can help, but they’ve managed to screw those up as well. Nothing is going to help in the wilderness areas except Time. Twas ever thus, and ever shall be. Futzing around with natural cycles is a fool’s errand.

Yeah, there's already enough issues with moving water from one drainage to another. In more than a few places.

The Trinity river in NorCal is dammed and then pumped "over the hill" to the Sacramento drainage.

But, let's pump some of that Great Lakes water over the Rockies to the West. We need more quagga and zebra mussels, maybe some sea lamprey juveniles too. Some of them jumping carp too.

Check out what I wrote. Was proposing moving excess Great Lakes water across the divide and rocks to the coast instead of spending our national treasure on foreign adventures that have brought us and the world nothing but misery.