Rainiest Cities in the US --- Pittsburgh is not on the lists

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Being someone that has a feeling the midwest is in big trouble in the next 20 years due to how dry it is getting there, we might be quite happy about the rainfall here. Something to think about if you are a little younger. If you are older, keep driving your Excursions and Escalades and enjoy life.

The midwest is drying out? Please post some links to that statement.

[Craziaskowboi]

Most of the "rain" in Pittsburgh is really just **** and vinegar from those who have never lived anywhere else.

[soniqV]

The Midwest isn't drying out in any humanly measurable way. Droughts have always happened periodically throughout history and often coincide with strong El Nino/La Nina winds.

And even if greenhouse gasses were somehow to blame for such a phenomenon, your gas guzzlers are a distant second in emissions compared to your livestock -- beef in particular. So you can thank your corn lobby and factory farms for that.

[gg]

Originally Posted by soniqV

The Midwest isn't drying out in any humanly measurable way. Droughts have always happened periodically throughout history and often coincide with strong El Nino/La Nina winds.

And even if greenhouse gasses were somehow to blame for such a phenomenon, your gas guzzlers are a distant second in emissions compared to your livestock -- beef in particular. So you can thank your corn lobby and factory farms for that.

Seems like a dry spell is going on. They will be first to turn into a desert.

I never understood why people always point fingers are everything else when they have the power to do something environmentally correct. Pointing a finger does nothing and it doesn't justify driving an Excursion or an H2. You might think it does, but it doesn't. Just dumb to waste so much considering what is all going on in the mideast, but I digress. Point was, if the midwest turns into a desert, Pittsburgh is going to have a property boom.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Seems like a dry spell is going on. They will be first to turn into a desert.

I never understood why people always point fingers are everything else when they have the power to do something environmentally correct. Pointing a finger does nothing and it doesn't justify driving an Excursion or an H2. You might think it does, but it doesn't. Just dumb to waste so much considering what is all going on in the mideast, but I digress. Point was, if the midwest turns into a desert, Pittsburgh is going to have a property boom.

The drought is in Colorado, Texas and Louisiana mostly. Kansas has some drought areas, Nebraksa, Indiana and Michigan have some "abnormally dry areas", but the rest of the midwest looks fine.

US Drought Monitor

[gg]

Originally Posted by Katiana

The drought is in Colorado, Texas and Louisiana mostly. Kansas has some drought areas, Nebraksa has some "abnormally dry areas", but the rest of the midwest looks fine.

US Drought Monitor

Ouch. That does look like a normal progression from a planet that is heating up. The mid south is sunk and that progression will probably move north a little at a time. Pittsburgh is sitting pretty. Not much in the way of natural disasters here either, which is a good thing. Rain makes things grow. My garden was great last year and I saved a fortune. Can't wait for asparagus this year.

[BrianTH]

The Pittsburgh area only gets a moderate amount of overall precipitation, and it is notable more for the way that precipitation is spread out fairly evenly during the year (many other places with as much or more precipitation annually have a greater concentration of that precipitation into a "rainy season", which a "dry season" to match).

That relatively flatter distribution in the precipitation is related to the average cloudiness statistics, which people sometimes complain about. But it also explains why the area is very friendly to growing things (agriculture, gardening, and so on).