(08-01-2021, 06:37 PM)Jags Wrote:

(08-01-2021, 04:41 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: Yup.

Please, I beg of you, take ours!!  We’ve gotten unseasonably amounts of rain.  Not the garden variety afternoon rain either.  I’ve never met a summer where it’s rained this much during the daytime.  Things are crazy these days.  The world in itself, and weather patterns.  I know out west wildfires and drought are kinda normal and you guys are “used” to it, unfortunately.  But, Is this season dryer than normal for y’all out there?

Well, I wouldn't say I'm real used to all these wildfires. We're prone to them for sure but last year was way beyond anything I've ever experienced. This year we've had fire as well but it seems like they're more ready for them and people are being slightly less careless, the fires aren't getting as out of control and burning whole cities off the map etc. 

Droughts are more complicated. We've always been in a cyclical state of drought and flood. I'm 41, and this is the third major drought I've experienced. I grew up during a real bad one (87-92), we had another from 12-16, and this one I'm guessing officially started this year but yeah it's already pretty bad. One more dry year and it'll be drastic.

I think the thing that lifelong Californians or maybe the farming community are raising their eyebrows over are two drought periods coming so quickly relative to each other, and that our winters are heating up just enough to start screwing with crops, spring is arriving more quickly, and the last two summers have been a bit hotter than our normal range.

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