1200 years of rainfall data! Just goes to show you rain gauges last over 1200 years. Dont throw your rain gauges in the trash Recycle them, if your local landfill or community doesn’t have a special “ rain gauge “ recycle bin, write your local sanitation dept and demand one!! /S for those with no sense of humor.
California has been in a ‘wet period’ for the last 1200 years. Prior droughts would last for up to 240 years
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eastbaytimes.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-past-dry-periods-have-lasted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/amp/
1200 years of rain fall data? Probably from tree rings. They showed a mega-drought in the 4-Corners area of AZ-NM-Colorado-Utah back in 1275-1300 AD. No coal fired power plants or SUVs involved.
The Great Salt Lake was once a part of the larger Lake Bonneville which has been drying up for thousands of years.
Two hundred years ago, the American West was not called THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT for nothing.