Posted on 06/07/2021 11:06:03 AM PDT by blam
Direct from Drought.gov:
After two water years of dry conditions, both California and Nevada are now 100% in drought. And with dire drought conditions, rapidly decreasing snowpack, and low reservoir levels, concern for wildfire season is growing. Read the drought status update to learn more.
This is a dry spell not seen since the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl days. Because of the drought, Americans very likely will experience a shocking food shortage very soon.
As explained in my previous article, drought is also affecting Arizona, and Colorado and the prairie states like Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. However, other states such as those in the Midwest and areas considered the nations’ “corn belt” also suffer from the drought.
Midwest states suffering the most
Here are the states in the Midwest currently experiencing drought conditions: •Iowa – Iowa has been in a state of drought for some time. About 8% of the state is considered “severe drought,” an area spanning about 12 counties in the northwestern part of the state. About 64% of Iowa currently suffers from “abnormally dry conditions, or worse.” •Illinois – Drought in Illinois, particularly the northeastern portion, has intensified to severe is now covering about 6% of the state. Abnormally dry conditions are present across the northern region and east side of the state. About 27% of the state is suffering from “abnormally dry conditions, or worse.”
•Nebraska – One of the lucky ones, Nebraska received some much-needed rain. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to end the drought. Moderate drought is at 16%, while 45% of the state suffers from “abnormally dry conditions, or worse.”
•Indiana – Probably the least dry state of the drought-stricken Midwest. Less than 1% of the state in drought conditions though about 21% reporting “abnormally dry conditions.”
•Minnesota – The drought is getting worse in Minnesota. Two counties in the northwest of the state are in “severe drought” while “moderate drought” has spread to 21% of the state. Overall, about 55% of the state suffers from “abnormally dry conditions, or worse.”
•Michigan – Michigan hasn’t been spared either. 78% of the state is experiencing “abnormally dry conditions,” 64% “moderate drought, and 6% “severe drought.”
Southeast U.S. is not as bad, but still not looking good
The Southeast United States is faring better. However: •Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are experiencing drought conditions as well.
•Texas, not mentioned as much: 52% experiencing “abnormally dry conditions,” 32% “moderate drought,” 20% “severe drought,” and 12% “extreme drought.” Nearly 6% of the state is experiencing “exceptional drought.”
•Though typically a dry state, New Mexico is 100% experiencing “abnormally dry conditions,” 99% “moderate drought,” 96% “severe drought,” 77% “extreme drought,” and 47% “exceptional drought.”
Still don’t believe the U.S. is suffering a severe dry spell?
The issue went before the U.S. Congress. From the AZ Mirror:
A drought crisis unfolding across the West will require short-term relief and massive, long-term federal funding to help states weather the effects of climate change, state water managers and lawmakers said at a U.S. House hearing on Tuesday.
Nearly 90 percent of the West is now experiencing drought conditions, according to the federal U.S. Drought Monitor. The problem is particularly acute in the Southwest.
Many states suffer from the driest water year on record
According to the AZ Mirror:
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah just had their driest year in 126 years. Colorado had its fourth-driest year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Snowpack is well below average this year, and early snowmelt is raising serious concerns for this summer.
“Droughts are not new, but many are experiencing the impact of one of the driest water years on record,” Elizabeth Klein, a senior counselor at the Interior Department who is overseeing drought response, said at the hearing before a panel of the House Natural Resources Committee. “Competing demands for water can lead to more conflict.”
Water wars heat up as the dry spell worsens
The AZ Mirror also reported:
Among those conflicts are who gets priority for limited water resources: upstream users, farmers, endangered fish, tribes, or municipal water systems.
In some cases, states are in conflict over who has rights to the water. The U.S. Supreme Court has several interstate water disputes on its docket, including cases between Mississippi and Tennessee and Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.
None of these issues are unforeseen consequences
They are the natural consequences of drought brought on, not by mythical CO2-based climate change. But a combination of natural phenomena, human action, and lack of preparation, problem-solving, and adaptation by governments and industry.
We shouldn’t look to Congress to solve the repercussions of the drought. (Unless the solution is giving themselves a raise.) Instead, all we can do is prepare ourselves and our families as best we can.
In other words, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
I will say it again…
We’re facing famine conditions.
The drought isn’t coming. It’s HERE.
And whatever you think might be the causes, there are no signs that any reasonable solutions will be discovered or implemented any time soon. The best course of action is to prepare and plan. Now. Famine conditions are next on the list of things to worry about.
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Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board Is Draining California Reservoirs
Drought Ravages California Reservoirs, Record Low Levels Expected This Summer
Funds Push CBOT Corn Long To Decade High As U.S. Weather Risks Brew
CA government is engaged in 100% man made crisis when they deactivated all the reservoirs over the years.
They were in drought before, and then they weren’t. And now they are, and then they won’t be. It’s sorta cyclical.
But hopefully we have global warming because a warmer planet is a wetter planet. :)
Cool Water
...........
Dan can you see that big green tree
Where the water’s running free
And it’s waiting there for you and me?
Dan’s feet are sore he’s yearning for
Just one thing more than water, cool, water
Like me I guess he’d like to rest
Where there’s no quest for water, cool, clear, water
Chorus:
Keep a-movin’ Dan don’t ya listen to him Dan
He’s a devil of a man and he spreads the burning sand with water
Dan can you see that big green tree
Where the water’s running free
And it’s waiting there for you and me?
The Democrats will solve this by bringing in millions more water consuming illegals.
We just expanded our garden by 25% just because we could. I might have to harvest all the wild garlic in my lawn this fall. :D
Ping.
Time to build Desalinization Plants in CA and Pipelines to send the Water from there to AZ and Nevada.
Even better, send the Water on a Bullet Train owned by some rich DEMONCRAT from Omaha.
Just an idea... LOL
OMG!!!! This has never, ever, never, ever, never ever happed before in all earth history of the continental United States!!!!!!! /sarc
Trump’s fault.
Snowpack is well below average this year...
Ha. You can have all the wild onions in mine too. I just pulled out a lot of Taro Root too.
Absolutely.
I'm don't know about the American West, but my understanding is that when the world is in a warming cycle, there is more evaporation, thus more rain, and desert areas such as the Sahara turn relatively green.
Conversely, if you are in a cooling cycle, the water tends to stay in the ocean, you get droughts and deserts expand.
I think we're cooling.
Two Blue states that cannot manage their natural resources, and I could care less. We have plenty of local crops and food and I’ll buy non- CA wines.
In instead of raving hysterically about carbon emissions, it might behoove mankind to start considering how to navigate climate change that is natural and which we cannot manipulate. When and if it gets figured out, it may be too late.
It’s too convenient to not be by design. Chase people out and buy up the land cheap. Then again, it may be the inevitable consequence of being a Third World state that can’t pay its bills to keep their infrastructure working.
What a surprise - a drought in a desert. We build irrigation systems to provide for lack of water. Just like with healthcare the government wants access to these life sustaining products in order to control the population and solve problems that they themselves create through regulation.
Are they back to dumping water in the sf Bay for the minnow
Is this real California news or is it partisan hype for some nefarious end they have in mind?
Just as a possibility.... you might want to stop picking on churches, killing babies, glorifying perversion and lying.
See if that helps.
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