Posted on 07/10/2007 4:44:05 PM PDT by blam
Photo in the News: Texas Goes Green After Record Rainfall
A deluge of torrential rains has lashed the Lone Star State for more than a month—making June one of the wettest ever recorded in Texas.
Spurring Texas' grassy plains to bloom dense vegetation, as seen in a photograph taken by a NASA satellite between June 11 and June 20.
The deep, emerald green indicates regions where plants are growing more quickly or robust than average, and the dark, almost-black color marks where vegetation was most dense.
Brown spots point to clouds or water on the ground, which in some cases may mask plant growth.
About 48,000 square miles (124,319 square kilometers), an area the size of Mississippi, was pounded by rains. Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas were hit with more than 330 percent of their average rainfall. In Texas, every major river basin flooded, an event that had not occurred since 1957, according to the Associated Press.
Powerful floods also took the lives of more than a dozen people and destroyed an estimated thousand homes.
"Unprecedented," Jack Colley, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told the AP. "Mostly this time of year we're fighting wildfires. ... The problem with this is, the water won't go away."
—Christine Dell'Amore
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Honey is that you?
AMEN and AMEN!!!
| Actual | Normal | Record | Last Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday | ||||
| Max Temperature | 94° | 95° | 106° (1980) | 96° |
| Min Temperature | 80° | 74° | 61° (1905) | 76° |
| Precipitation | 0.00 " | 0.07 " | 0.82 " ( 1907 ) | 0.00 " |
| Month-to-date precip. | 4.36 " | 0.67 " | -- | 1.78 " |
| Year-to-date precip. | 36.44 " | 19.58 " | -- | 16.38 " |
| Cooling degree days | 22 | 20 | -- | 21 |
| Month-to-date cooling degree days | 157 | 172 | -- | 168 |
| Since 1 Jan cooling degree days | 1113 | 1007 | -- | 1470 |
| Maximum humidity: 79%, Minimum humidity: 52%, Average humidity: 66% | ||||
Here in S.E. Michigan we finally had a storm come thru this afternoon for about 10 minutes. Then like a Democrap with promises, it was gone and the sun came back out........
Anyone supporting the ethanol propaganda are going to be really disappointed in our state's corn production........No water means no corn. I haven't seen any reports but I have to believe that our corn growers are really suffering if they don't have artifical irrigation systems.
Most of the sweet corn in my area comes from local farmers who have fields between subdivisions and don't have the luxury of irrigation. They are really going to be hurting as will be their consumers........
Wow, I didn't know there were differences in those dances......Would that be like a Salsa for the valley or a Meringue for the hill?
Kingman AZ. We had our last barely measurable rainfall in mid-March.
We’ve had some much rain here in my area that even the rocks took root and started growin’........
Al Gore only impresses himself. My mother said she remembers weather similar to this about 50 years ago in Dallas. She remembers lots of rain and high temperatures in the 60’s in July. Mother Nature is taking care of our water deficit. The countryside looks so beautiful this year.
Look,
I’m trying to help you here.
The Meringue melts in the heat. It must be offered to the mountain.
The Salsa, well, come on, the salsa. It’s hot.
Do you want rain, or not?
;-)
It’s so wet here that all the cracks in the ground have closed up.
“unseasonably cooler temperatures”
Thank you, Lord!
Maybe, but the exponentially expanded corn planting here in Arkansas, overall, is doing very well. We saw corn in Texas (in areas that use to be cattle ranches) that looked beautiful.
Lots of corn in Mississippi doing pretty well from what I saw last week...
Is Michigan a major player in the corn market?
No, I think that's Disco for the valley and the Macarena for the hill.
The area of downtown Wichita Falls along the Wichita River was unbelievable; the Wichita spilled over the banks and did some real flooding..
I lived in Wichita Falls for a few years. My ex in-laws are there and in Iowa Park and Henrietta. I read they had horrific flooding. I’m near Waco and I swear we have new rivers here. I’ve never seen anything like this.
I’ve never seen so much rain here in Central Texas (Abilene area). The soil here is sandy and drains really well- but that isn’t doing any good now.
Yesterday, on the way home from work, I saw a small flock of ducks floating in the ditch beside the road! Probably wondering where all the fish were.
This morning’s Abilene paper featured a letter to the editor from a visiting New Yorker, complaining about what a disgrace Abilene is. One of his complaints was that many people had unmowed lawns- little does he realise- we just can’t keep up!
I’m in Stephenville and when I went to Waco the other day all I could see driving over the bridge were the rooves of houses. The lake was up to their eaves.
Take my wife, please. Rim shot.
Melting polar ice caps. AlSnore was write. Ha.
Leni
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