Drought getting worse, but still better than last year
The Lawrenceville Weather Blog has a nice look at the current state of the drought. From their site:
And, indeed the latest drought monitor for Georgia shows an area of extreme drought in the northeast corner of the state enlarging to the west, including portions of Gwinnett county, and virtually all of the Lake Lanier drainage basin. As of Tuesday, 8.9% of Georgia was in extreme drought, compared to 2.3% last week. 61% of the state is classified as being in a moderate drought. However, as the comparison below shows, we’re still better off than we were at this time last year. On June 12, 2007, 47% of Georgia was in extreme drought and 96.1% was in at least a moderate drought.
Hopefully we’ll get some lucky downpours over the next few weeks to help prop us up, then a slow moving tropical storm later this summer. We can dream, can’t we?
(so sad, having to dream about tropical storms…)
Tags: drought, Lanier, rainfall, tropical storm
June 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
At least we’re not on the coast.
Of course, we do have our share of dangerous weather to look out for, tornadoes.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I dream about tropical poultry (not that there’s anything WRONG with that)
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June 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am
You could be here. We’re over a foot OVER our normal rainfall. Every time it rains, all the low-lying areas flood. Iowa has 30 counties that are under water. Illinois about the same, and in St. Louis, the Mississippi has engulfed our riverside district.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
rkolter Says:
June 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am
You could be here….
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please visit MY new blaagh, “SaintLouisWaterSurplus.com”
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June 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
It’s kind of sad really. After 1993, people rebuilt on the 500 year floodplain figuring, “Gee, there’ll never be another flood like this one in my lifetime.” And lo and behold, another 500 year flood comes along, 15 years later.
St. Louis is actually fine - we have about 50 meters of riverside district on either side flooded, and the steps leading to the St. Louis Arch are half-covered. But north of us, they’re swamped. Levee’s are being overtopped everywhere.
C’mon Atlanta. Help out St. Louis. Bring a bucket and take some water home with you.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 am
We can solve the fresh water shortages in Altanta.
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