Large Area of Iowa in Extreme Drought.
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What if we shot a nuke in to the drought? Maybe do something with the light in the body of the drought?
It's getting scary out there. Lots of rivers are at all time lows. Having this level of deficit already is a major concern. If we have a dry spring lots of communities are going to have drinking water concerns. Poweshiek Water is already instituting a mandatory conservation order. These are the types of things you see in dry years mid-summer, not mid-march. Here is a map showing the stream flow by watershed in the state. Yikes!
I know it just came out but I feel like this is not getting enough coverage.
Thousands of Poweshiek Water Association customers under mandatory conservation order
The Poweshiek Water Association (PWA) is calling on thousands of people to rein in their water use for the next several months.
Not much change since early March despite scattered rain since:
Yikes, i figured with the decent amounts of rain the last month that it would be much improved.
I do know the Racoon River in Des Moines is back up again and they are letting more water out of Saylorville now so hopefully that's a good sign.
The rivers up in north/northeast Iowa are still quite low, but as you can see we're still in pretty advanced drought stages too.
Is it forecast to be wetter in upcoming months? Drought monitor outlooks show IA drought improving and even going away in spots
droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Outlooks | U.S. Drought Monitor
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Not great for morel prospects
They were pushing global cooling at me as a schoolboy in the early 70s.
How do they measure this stuff? I'm guessing the "norm" is based on historical averages? But what do the measure? Water flow in creeks and rivers? Take soil samples at different depths to get moisture content? Or is it just based off rain/snow fall over a certain amount of time?
They did say yesterday next Monday and Tuesday we have a chance for some heavy rain.Is it forecast to be wetter in upcoming months? Drought monitor outlooks show IA drought improving and even going away in spots
Outlooks | U.S. Drought Monitor
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Normally it's a sign that he drought is about over when the dryest area is in the Northeast part of the state. Historically droughts have tented to move clockwise from the Southwest, through the Midwest and then Southeast. Looking at the surrounding area though, I'm not as positive just yet for '24.
Wyoming volcano?Yall are welcome down in AZ.
If we're all going to go dry, may as well nuke that volcano and start over.
The USGS has gauges in every river in the country measuring flow
What’s your water bill like? Depending on where your usage is measured.
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