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Rome's rightful successor said:
Minnesota is going through a horrid drought right now.
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It always blows my mind that one side of a continent can be in the middle of a thirty year drought, with the other side experiencing record floods at the same time. *sigh*I am curious as to how long the Minnesota drought has been going on for?
 
Minnesota becoming the tundra-version of a drought in my lifetime just sounds silly to me. Then again, guess a desert-dweller used to drought just can't comprehend it.
 
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When I was growing up, I was in an area badly affected by a drought that had started in the early 90s. There was a whole patchwork of drought afflicted areas up and down the East Coast of Australia, and eventually these patches merged and were rebranded the "Millennium Drought". Officially the Millennium Drought started in 1996, but there were many areas that hadn't had any significant rainfall for years before then. When the drought finally broke, it was... bizarre. For so much of my early life, it'd just been drought. Rain suddenly fell, not just for a day or two, but for weeks at a time. It was maddening because it felt so unnatural. I'd grown up with dust and endless water restrictions, and all of a sudden all this water was endlessly falling from the sky and everything was so green that it felt like my eyes were being assaulted.
 
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See, I remember there being rain throughout my entire life, but apparently the Arizona drought officially started in the '90s and is still on-going. Majority of the rain falls either during the monsoon season (which is more akin to there just being heat lightning if you're lucky to get all those clouds in your area lol) or whenever we get a wet winter. Otherwise we're literally bumming off of whatever comes in from California or up from Mexico whenever they get a tropical storm that hits closer to the Baja Peninsula. Meanwhile the northern part of the state will still get snow, which if they get enough of means that even the Superstitions get snow which then come flowing down into the valley in creeks. It's pretty cool to see, but it doesn't happen every year. That's why it's so weird every time I'd travel because I'd see greenery and I'm not used to that for long periods of time lol.

So if there's drought happening further up north, would that suggest that rain's gonna come down south, or are the climate wizards sending dust up into the air still going to screw us over?
 
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At least these aren't looking to be threats to the US (like some folks were concerned about).
 
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glass_houses said:
Two months without rain is a drought in your world? A severe drought, at that?

I think my head just exploded.
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A week without rain is unusual here. More than two in the summer and they start banning hosepipes
glass_houses said:
Rain suddenly fell, not just for a day or two, but for weeks at a time. It was maddening because it felt so unnatural. I'd grown up with dust and endless water restrictions, and all of a sudden all this water was endlessly falling from the sky and everything was so green that it felt like my eyes were being assaulted.
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The record in the uk is 89 consecutive days of rain (on Islay.)
Infuriatingly, my autocorrect has changed islay to Islam multiple times
We are getting battered by the remnants of the Atlantic storms I think today. Such an odd thought that weather travels that far.
 
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Interesting tidbit brought up from near the end of this video: We may see a new scale officially instituted in the future for rating tornadoes, especially since technology and our understanding of storms has essentially outpaced the Enhanced Fujita's rating systems at this point.
 
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Gravemind said:

Interesting tidbit brought up from near the end of this video: We may see a new scale officially instituted in the future for rating tornadoes, especially since technology and our understanding of storms has essentially outpaced the Enhanced Fujita's rating systems at this point.
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It was another tornado youtuber, can't remember who but it wasn't June First, had mentioned this earlier in the year. If we can reliably measure tornado winds and behavior, it does make sense to have a wind based system or at least one that factors in collected data. El Reno was only EF3 because at peak strength it was over fields
 
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Return of the Freaker said:
It was another tornado youtuber, can't remember who but it wasn't June First, had mentioned this earlier in the year.
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I figured it was worth mentioning since this a very recent video and evidently the mention of such has come up yet again, which would indicate, to me at least, that the possibility of a new rating system is either still on the table or may yet come to pass.

I guess we'll see if there's any official word by the very end of the year.
 
Otterly said:
A week without rain is unusual here. More than two in the summer and they start banning hosepipes
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The record for my hometown was over 45 days without measurable(>0.01") precipitation. This came came to an end when it snowed 2' on Christmas Day.
 
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