The drought has taken its toll . . . (Albuquerque, Elephant Butte: live, assess, best)
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Glad to hear you guys are getting some much needed rain. The scary thing is how bad off California is right now and how much of the US/worlds produce is grown there. Youre going to have to send some good rain vibes their way ASAP
Thanks for posting the rainfall map, NMHacker. I left NM for southern California in May and and am very concerned with the drought conditions in my new home state. It looks like an el niño condition is in effect in NM. If that's the case, maybe CA will have a wet winter. Got my fingers crossed.
Thanks for posting the rainfall map, NMHacker. I left NM for southern California in May and and am very concerned with the drought conditions in my new home state. It looks like an el niño condition is in effect in NM. If that's the case, maybe CA will have a wet winter. Got my fingers crossed.
Believe it or not - NM has had only a normal rainfall this past season. It would take 5 years of above-average rainfall to pull us out of our drought.
Sadly, the news this morning says that CA is going to have a warmer winter than normal (and so is NM). BUT -- that doesn't mean that there won't be some rain. BUT -- probably not nearly enough for either state.
I'm postponing my move back to San Diego (or anywhere in CA). If this drought gets much worse, I can see myself moving to Pittsburgh (PA). Not Heaven on Earth -- but it has water.
Yes, but all together it was only a normal Monsoon Season. We need at least 5 above-average Monsoon Seasons to pull us out. Well, maybe it was that we've had normal rainfall for the year. I can't remember. Sorry. But I think it was this summer's Monsoon Season that the Water Authority was speaking of.
Soil moisture levels all across the southern Rockies are still well below normal. This year's Southwest Monsoon has not been enough to make that much difference. It also has been notoriously capricious and unreliable. Storms have often been extremely heavy, but concentrated only on very small areas. The pattern from southern Colorado southward has also been somewhat abnormal--storm movement often atypical from the norm, areas that normally get substantial monsoonal moisture not getting much while normally much drier areas have gotten hammered, etc. The whole region desperately needs a much wetter, longer, and colder than normal winter this year. All are critically important, but the last two are especially needed to kill off the overwintering larvae of various pine and spruce beetles that are decimating the forests of the southern Rockies.
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: we're not out of the woods by any means.
