Stocker Steve
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The talking heads are getting excited about dry weather in the south. The price of used snowmobiles has cratered here. Are we in for some angry ocean current thing, or is it way too early to worry?
Rain is just west of you looks like.M-5":3qfje7qa said:Cold winter here is typically a dry hot summer. We are in drought conditions but I burnt fields today and there was moisture when I disked the perimeters. All ponds are empty .
Yes , we got 3 " last Sunday. We have got some small timely showers.kenny thomas":3u1ebemi said:Rain is just west of you looks like.M-5":3u1ebemi said:Cold winter here is typically a dry hot summer. We are in drought conditions but I burnt fields today and there was moisture when I disked the perimeters. All ponds are empty .
Son of Butch":3oacub56 said:crystal ball: Next significant drought should still be a few years away.
Pluto enters Aquarius (the water bearer) in 2023 and by the time it leaves in 2043 (25 years from now) there will be
an understanding of droughts like none have had since the dust bowl era of the 1930s.
100 yr cycle? but wider than ever before.
greybeard":1k2fb5kf said:One person's definition of 'significant' is not necessarily another's. In lots of the South and Southwest, we're never more than 2 weeks away from a 'significant' drought...
dun":fipm8kh3 said:We are currently in Moderate drought with Abnormally dry a few miles north and Severe drought a few miles south.
Son of Butch":3jo9rqv2 said:crystal ball: Next significant drought should still be a few years away.
Pluto enters Aquarius (the water bearer) in 2023 and by the time it leaves in 2043 (25 years from now) there will be
an understanding of droughts like none have had since the dust bowl era of the 1930s.
100 yr cycle? but wider than ever before.
I was thinking we could use a little more...http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMa ... or.aspx?TX.greybeard":1n9u4bel said:Been getting lots of moisture here this winter, which is normal.
Hope you guys in the deep south and southeast do NOT go into bad drought.
High water is hard to take but doesn't last all year and it's effect doesn't last several years like a drought does.
1982vett":2g1wqnvx said:I was thinking we could use a little more...http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMa ... or.aspx?TX.greybeard":2g1wqnvx said:Been getting lots of moisture here this winter, which is normal.
Hope you guys in the deep south and southeast do NOT go into bad drought.
High water is hard to take but doesn't last all year and it's effect doesn't last several years like a drought does.
Shipped so many to Nebraska a couplle of months ago that it's no problem. Just feeding hay is all, and not much of thatStocker Steve":1mm4xtdh said:dun":1mm4xtdh said:We are currently in Moderate drought with Abnormally dry a few miles north and Severe drought a few miles south.
How heavy is the cow culling?