2017 Ketchikan breaks its summer rainfall record

[AK76]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Count your blessings, people! Undoubtedly you've heard about the forest fires in BC and California. The rain is a great blessing. It ensures your water supply to an extent, too. That's going to be a very precious commodity, in coming decades.

And the sky is falling!

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

..The rain is a great blessing.

Indeed it is. Too bad we can't share it with those dry, heavily populated western states.

Yup, their water woes will only get worse in the years to come.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by stiffnecked

Forest fires are just part of nature. They happen. They need to happen to keep forests healthy.

Definitely, up to a point. But the BC fires were caused by an overdue snowfall that melted much too fast to sink into the ground, due to a sudden warm spell. So the ground was abnormally dry, and the trees were dried out. All patterns indicative of climate change, all predicted decades ago. And now, in some parts of the US, the forests aren't regenerating. Desertification is gradually moving north.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Blind Cleric

Indeed it is. Too bad we can't share it with those dry, heavily populated western states.

Keep it. You'll need it.

Originally Posted by Blind Cleric;

Yup, their water woes will only get worse in the years to come.

Yup. And the population keeps growing in some parts.