Climate Change? Nahhh ...

By August, things are dry. It's insanely hot, but we don't have the perpetual damp.

 

Oh goody.

Flesh-Eating Parasites May Be Expanding Their Range As Climate Heats Up

 

All-time record heat out this way. During the day it wasn't bad, kind of felt good. At night? Kinda sucks. Still in the 90s at 1 a.m. July, August and Sept. are going to be fun...

 

Driving through Cabezon yesterday (Palm Spring area), the thermometer in my wife's car hit 122.

 

It’s 44 Celsius where I live. And I’m to far out of Vancouver

 

Some serious crazy weather for the PNW. For comparison's sake, the highest ever temperature for Florida is 109 and for Georgia is 112.

 

Good thread — long thread, 24 tweets — about the North American megadrought.



Pulled some links out for you:

• The period from 2000-2018 was the driest period in North America in over 500 years. Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought | Science
• The past year has been the driest or second-driest since 1895, and it’s shrinking Western reservoirs to the point that hydroelectric power could be a challenge.
• Almond farmers in California’s Central Valley are ripping out their trees early and replacing them with younger trees that don’t require as much water. In addition to that, "Dairy farms are sending cows to slaughter as they run short of feed and water. Fields are sitting bare, because it’s too costly to irrigate the rows of cauliflower, strawberries and lettuce that usually flourish in abundance. Meanwhile, fieldworkers are being put into life-threatening conditions as the brutal temperatures increase the risk of heat stroke and dehydration.” California’s Drought Is So Bad That Almond Farmers Are Ripping Out Trees
• Fuel moisture conditions are at September levels in California, suggesting a frightening wildfire season to come.
• California snowpack went to 0% by June 1, earlier than ever. What it means that California's snowpack is 0% of June 1 average
• The unincorporated town of Teviston, in the Central Valley, has been without running water since early June when the pump on its only well broke. It was full of sand and the manager of the local water utility is afraid that well has gone dry. Their previous well collapsed in 2017. They’re building a new well, but it won’t be finished until 2022, or maybe 2023. Further down in the story, we visit Lamont (near Bakersfield), where 4 of their 7 wells are contaminated with a carcinogen and a fifth doesn’t work. An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave