Posted on 09/21/2021 10:30:32 PM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Human-caused climate change has intensified the withering drought gripping the Southwestern United States, the region's most severe on record, with precipitation at the lowest 20-month level documented since 1895, a U.S. government report said on Tuesday.
Over the same period, from January 2020 through August 2021, the region also experienced the third-highest daily average temperatures measured since record-keeping began near the end of the 19th century, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) drought task force.
The study warned that extreme drought conditions are likely to worsen and repeat themselves "until stringent climate mitigation is pursued and regional warming trends are reversed."
The drought emerged in early 2020 in California, Nevada and the "Four Corners" states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico and has led to unprecedented water shortages in reservoirs across the region, while fueling devastating western wildfires over the past two years, the report noted.
The study also cited dwindling reservoir levels that have threatened or disrupted drinking supplies, irrigation systems, hydropower generation, fishing and recreational activities, with immediate economic losses in the billions of dollars.
Much of the record below-normal wintertime precipitation was likely due to natural weather variations, including a La Nina pattern, while research suggests that successive summers of scant monsoonal rainfall may also occur by chance, the NOAA report said.
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We are at 5,214 so no worry about sea level rise (!). And in a few short months we’ll be begging for some global warming as the temperatures drop for the winter.
Look, we have plenty of water in the Northeast. If some rich Californian wants to pay me $5k/month I’ll rent them a room with unlimited water.
The left should be happy
.it will mostly be the end of people.
Although,I am sure they will declare themselves exempt.
The left should be happy
.it will mostly be the end of people.
Although,I am sure they will declare themselves exempt.
In July and August we almost drowned...did they just take winter data and run with it?
In other scientific news: Water is wet. Fire is hot. Breathing is important for good health.
The climate changed yesterday. It’s now autumn.
If the Squids say we’re the ones changing the climate can we figure out a way to make it summer all the time?
Not just precip record low snow pack as well. Lake Mead is at record low-level it’s only 17 feet above the original water intakes for Vegas. It’s expected to drop below intake one this year or early next year. Intake 2 is 50 feet lower at 1000’ and the new intake 3 is at 860’ that’s below the dead pool level of 895’ where no water can pass through Hoover dam as it’s below the lowest outlet valve. The lake floor is at 735’ at the dam face it was 560 feet but decades of sediment have filled it up to 735 above MSL. Vegas has full use of the water from 895 to 860 as not a drop can be sent to Arizona or California once the lowest outlet is reached.
http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp
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