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Ohio experiencing record droughts.

bomberfox

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Deniers just stop for a moment… This drought is damned obvious and temperatures are getting so high that its near unbearable.

Ohio’s historic drought worsens with nearly 90% of the state now affected

Nearly a tenth of Ohio is now classified as in the highest levels of drought by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Meanwhile, moderate drought touches Portage County, closing in on Northeast Ohio again.
www.cleveland.com
90 percent of the state is under drought conditions and our crops and lawns are suffering from it. We’re a northern state that might not be a stranger to very moist heat but we are under fire hazard warnings now as the state is getting drier.
 
Oddly, here in NYC we're going on two weeks with no rain (I don't recall this ever happening) but mercifully upstate, where all of our 20 reservoirs are located, they've had ample rain to keep the water levels at roughly historical averages for this time of year.

We'll see how long our drought lasts.

Have you ever seen the rain? Not this month, at least in the NYC area

Three weeks into September we should be closing in on three inches of total rainfall, about 2.7 inches in all – almost 10 times what we’ve gotten so far.
www.nbcnewyork.com
 

Haitians fault.
 
How many wind farms are upstream of the normal winds? Wind farms will change the wind patterns.
 
MamboDervish said:
Oddly, here in NYC we're going on two weeks with no rain (I don't recall this ever happening)
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It happened last year, the year before and as I recall the year before that. Not a big deal

What is a bit unusual is that September is generally a rainy month as tropical storms move from the tropics up the coast this time of year and this has not happened.

Last year the entire lettuce crop was lost in the Hudson Valley because of lack of rain.
 
Ohio has had bad droughts before:

1983 was Ohio's driest calendar year. Los Angeles received more rainfall than Cleveland that year. The drought forced many trees and shrubs into dormancy and created water shortages in many towns.[49]
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Causation can be very tricky and very complicated.

bomberfox said:
Deniers just stop for a moment…
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Call me crazy, but I hereby deny that giving politicians more money and more power will lead to fewer droughts in the future.
 
aociswundumho said:
Call me crazy, but I hereby deny that giving politicians more money and more power will lead to fewer droughts in the future.
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Really? Silly me. I thought it was a 1:1 ratio of dollar$ to gallons.
 
aociswundumho said:
Ohio has had bad droughts before:



Causation can be very tricky and very complicated.



Call me crazy, but I hereby deny that giving politicians more money and more power will lead to fewer droughts in the future.
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Altering what we do will. No the causation is ****ing clear.

You people will keep denying past your own rivers drying up.

Your own charts show the droughts are getting worse.
 
September isnt usually this dry for us either.
 
Lord of Planar said:
How many wind farms are upstream of the normal winds? Wind farms will change the wind patterns.
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Erm, just no.

Europe used to have thousands of windmills to make flour and it didn't somehow change the weather.
That's the craziest conspiracy theory I've heard since the Hitler is on the Moon theories.
 
Yep.. In the Spring and most of the summer we've had plenty of rain here in downstate NY.. But in September?.. Nada..

Flood warning out for the Hudson River downstate now though.. So maybe rain coming..
 
Peter said:
Erm, just no.
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Large wind farms do have an affect.
Peter said:
Europe used to have thousands of windmills to make flour and it didn't somehow change the weather.
That's the craziest conspiracy theory I've heard since the Hitler is on the Moon theories.
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Small ones only big enough for small applications. Very different.
 
bomberfox said:
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Duh...

We have more people using a limited source of water.

Notice they are not calling this a problem with normal precipitation. They mention a lack of storms from what was supposed to be a record Atlantic hurricane season.

Another prediction by the AGW activists that did not come true.
 
aociswundumho said:
Ohio has had bad droughts before:



Causation can be very tricky and very complicated.



Call me crazy, but I hereby deny that giving politicians more money and more power will lead to fewer droughts in the future.
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How does this give politicians more money and power?
 
Lord of Planar said:
How many wind farms are upstream of the normal winds? Wind farms will change the wind patterns.
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The Ohio GOP have opposed wind farms as a response to the billion dollar bride from First Energy.

Two fired utility execs and a former top Ohio regulator plead not guilty in bribery scheme

Two fired top executives of FirstEnergy Corp. and Ohio’s former top utility regulator have pleaded not guilty in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme.
apnews.com

The effect of wind farms on wind patterns is very minor. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/change-weather-wind-farms-might-affect-local-climates
 
Lisa said:
The effect of wind farms on wind patterns is very minor. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/change-weather-wind-farms-might-affect-local-climates
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LOL...

Very minor? the same numbers would be called extreme if wind power was not part of their agenda.
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Averaged over an entire day, the wind speed at ground level would go up about 0.6 m/s and the temperature would jump 0.7°C.​
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Turbulence caused by the rotating blades would shunt some of the high-speed winds typically found 100 m off the ground down to Earth’s surface, says Roy. Those surface winds would boost evaporation of soil moisture by as much as 0.3 millimeter per day.​

This from the modelling, and note that actual wind farms are not in a 100 by 100 array spaced 1 km apart like they modeled.

Here we are speaking about droughts, and apparently, you do not think that extra 0.3 mm a day of evaporation matters.

Here is the paper:

 
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