Record percentage of United States experiences 'exceptional drought'

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Exceptional drought conditions spread across nearly 12% of the United States last month, a record number that shows the widespread impact of the dry weather conditions, according to a report released Monday.

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I wonder if this is a real drought or a manufactured drought? Florida will get massive rainfall for weeks and SFWMD will quietly pump hundreds of billions of gallons out into the ocean. Then when it doesn't hardly rain for a week or 2, they claim it is a historic drought.
 
redrumloa said:
I wonder if this is a real drought or a manufactured drought? Florida will get massive rainfall for weeks and SFWMD will quietly pump hundreds of billions of gallons out into the ocean. Then when it doesn't hardly rain for a week or 2, they claim it is a historic drought.
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I'm no expert and haven't researched the source but the following certainly gives the impression that it's real science:
More than 40% of states faced abnormal dryness or drought, a report released by the center said.
The report tracks and ranks weather conditions from "abnormal dryness" to "exceptional drought." A drought is considered "exceptional" when the situation extends beyond what "could be considered part of normal risk management," according to the center's website.
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If you don't trust that, you'd have to dig a little deeper and I don't have time right now. (I'm in work)
 
Robert said:
If you don't trust that, you'd have to dig a little deeper and I don't have time right now. (I'm in work)
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My remark was specifically a swipe at Florida and the SFWMD (South Florida Water Management District). Other parts of the country may indeed have a real drought but down here it is all B$.

South Florida's lack of water storage leaves billions of gallons draining out to sea during drought

Dumping billions of gallons of water out to sea in the midst of a lingering drought is South Florida's water-supply irony.

Drought concerns quickly can become flooding scares in the course of a summer afternoon downpour because there's not enough water storage in crowded South Florida

About 10 billion gallons of stormwater was drained into the ocean from local flood-control canals during the first two weeks of July, according to the South Florida Water Management District.

That's more than 600 million gallons a day washing away, right on the heels of the driest October-to-June on record.

With emergency landscape watering restrictions still in place, enough stormwater was drained into the ocean during the first half of July to fill more than 15,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Furthermore, every year without fail the SFWMD drains Lake Okeechobee and then claim a historic drought when it doesn't rain during the dry season. Not a lot of rain during the DRY season? What a shock:rolleyes:

Rainy July boosts Lake Okeechobee water levels

Concerns about the stability of the lake's aging dike prompted the Army Corps of Engineers last year to release more than 300 billion gallons of lake water out to sea in the name of flood control.

Every year it is a new song and dance why they drain the Lake. This time they are beating the drum about an aging dike again since they can't blame global warming. Yup, 2007-2008 they drained the Lake because they anticipated record rainfall from hurricanes caused by global warming. It didn't happen so they went back to claiming a historic drought. 2008-2009 was much drier than average but it was no historic drought. Even then if they hadn't drained the Lake there would not be the same water supply concerns.

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I should also mention that only recently has the local newspapers actually reported a partial truth about the SFWMD draining the lake and pumping 100's of billions of gallons of water out to the ocean. In the past the local papers were nothing more than puppets for the SFWMD. I am guessing the newspapers don't get the same kickbacks that they used to.
 
Minnesota has the opposite problem. Too much rain. It's been nearly impossible to get lawn cut without cutting the grass wet. The combination of lots of rain and humidity that's higher than average is making things simply damp for quite a while. We even have rivers reaching the lower level of flood stages.

We're not quite as high as the disaster level in May. But there's a sampling of May, June, July, and August post.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=14432
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/morning_news/Rain-Prompts-Flood-Warnings-in-Minnesota-jun-21-2011
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/07/28/fema-declaration-minn/?refid=0
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/weather/94-broadway-flood-aug-1-2011

.. July Temps came out this morning. Earlier this spring the weather service predicted a below average summer. July ended up w/ 5.6 degrees warmer than average.
 
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