RickS
Jun 13, 2011, 8:29 PM
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Rolly it's not just SOB that the weather is 'unusual'. I know that an average is made up of highs and lows, but.....
It has been a strange year NOB, not only just where I live in Colorado but all over. Our mountains got 'record' snowfall this winter (300% of average) yet we on the Front Range (down the mountain 75 miles east, say, to Denver) and the eastern plains are (were) in a serious drought. Then May came along and we had an unusually wet/cold/cloudy/windy month. The Sierras (Ca.) had record snowfall that lasted waaaaay past normal time. Pacific NW is still cold.
Forest fires are 'everywhere' in Texas, NM, Arizona and some here in Colorado due to severe dry conditions and high winds. One in eastern Arizona is still only 10% contained and is over 600 square MILES in scope. Beautiful mountain country, mostly uninhabited, is being destroyed.
Flooding along the Mississippi and tributaries is not unusual but this year you probably have heard that it is waaaaay beyond 'normal'. They had to open the Morganza spillway in southern Louisiana to keep New Orleans/Baton Rouge from being flooded even worse but of course that put other areas under water.That spillway has not been opened but twice since being built in the 1920.... once in 1954 and again in 1973. Not since ???? has there been such flooding ...... Any even Montana is flooding!
And I won't even mention 'out-of-season' tornadoes like the one that devastated Joplin Mo.
Anyway, it is being strange. Everywhere.
Edited to correct typo in first sentence--changed "now" to "not".
(This post was edited by esperanza on Jun 13, 2011, 9:49 PM)
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