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Post by rozenn on Sept 20, 2020 12:39:06 GMT -5
Please post anything drought-related. Be it hopelessly flat rainfall charts, photos of dried up river beds, or comments on the effects on vegetation and society. I'll start with pics of the normal state of a forest in central France vs its current aspect, courtesy og Paparazzi on Infoclimat. The last three summers have evidently harmed trees bigly, and we might only start to witness the consequences. I'm afraid that even if things go back to normal (and there's sadly no evidence for it), trees will continue to die in droves during the next few years. September 2009:  September 2020:  |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 20, 2020 12:42:53 GMT -5
Btw, feel free to merge with another thread if there is one, I didn't bother to check past page 1. Ground humidity graph, French average. Went from record wet at the beginning of spring to record dry at the beginning of fall. So sad.  |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 20, 2020 12:45:07 GMT -5
Heart-wrenching vid from the Jura, one of the wettest regions in France:
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Post by rozenn on Sept 20, 2020 12:49:08 GMT -5
Graph plotting each summer since the 60s on a temperarure-precipitation graph; nationwide data again. The more to the upper left corner, the more arid. As expected, recent summers gather in that quadrant.  |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 20, 2020 12:50:49 GMT -5
2020 June 15 - September 15 tally (left) vs normal (right):
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Post by boombo on Sept 21, 2020 13:41:12 GMT -5
We went from having big pools of standing water and reservoirs overflowing here in mid March to yellow patches on the grass by the end of May this year because of what was probably the driest couple of months we've ever had (only 24.6 mm from 20 March to 2 June inclusive, average would be about 170 mm). The grass going yellow only happens once or twice a decade here anyway so to see it in May is basically unheard of.
Absolutely no worries about drought though because of the wet summer. 2018 was dry here too but the last six summer months through 2019 and 2020 have all had above average rainfall, often by quite a way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2020 6:08:12 GMT -5
We had a very dry August around here; we only reached 1" (25mm) of rainfall in the last week of the month. Grass was very yellow in many places, and each consecutive sunny day only made it worse. We did finally have an inch or so in the final week of August, but now September has been dry too. The big rain systems were now over a week ago (September 8-9 and 11-12), and it hasn't rained at all since then. There aren't any significant rain chances within the next week either: a slight chance on Saturday and Sunday and that's it. There has been some rain on the map since last night, but of course I happen to live in one of the spots that didn't get anything significant.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2020 15:01:54 GMT -5
We had one of the wettest Sep-Mar periods on record, then the driest May on record, the summer was wetter than average and now September has been dry so far, with only 3.2mm.
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Post by nei on Sept 29, 2020 8:02:05 GMT -5
we got drought; big change by the NY border. Some of that is from Tropical Storm Isias in early August; rain from mostly got upstate NY not that much further east. Last time we had a drought this bad was in 2016, don't think eastern New England was as bad that time but we had it worse but ended in September. 1.5 inches of rain coming in the next couple days, so it'll let up. Growing season is mostly over anyway, rain is just beneficial for the long-term + fire prevention  |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 30, 2020 16:41:19 GMT -5
Yeah, but unless the soil is all soggy and wet the US drought monitor considers it a drought!
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Post by rozenn on Sept 30, 2020 16:44:37 GMT -5
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Post by rpvan on Sept 30, 2020 16:45:15 GMT -5
We went from having big pools of standing water and reservoirs overflowing here in mid March to yellow patches on the grass by the end of May this year because of what was probably the driest couple of months we've ever had (only 24.6 mm from 20 March to 2 June inclusive, average would be about 170 mm). The grass going yellow only happens once or twice a decade here anyway so to see it in May is basically unheard of. Absolutely no worries about drought though because of the wet summer. 2018 was dry here too but the last six summer months through 2019 and 2020 have all had above average rainfall, often by quite a way. The grass goes yellow/brown virtually every summer here in the PNW. Which is surprising to many people since our climate is associated with so much rain but summers are actually fairly dry around here. |
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Post by nei on Oct 9, 2020 21:26:21 GMT -5
worst drought since 2016; third worst in the last two decades  I'm a bit worse than western MA average; tropical storm Isias caused a lot of rain further west. Further east missed recent rain, drought is really bad out there  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 6:57:30 GMT -5
We had one of the wettest Sep-Mar periods on record, then the driest May on record, the summer was wetter than average and now September has been dry so far, with only 3.2mm. And after a dry September (20mm), October continues the dry/wet/dry/wet theme having already seen 78.4mm so far. It will probably record over 100mm! |
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Post by Morningrise on Oct 10, 2020 8:26:52 GMT -5
Pics from eastern Champagne last week, courtesy of edd on Infoclimat. Looks like Texas.  Wow, that first picture could easily be some random rural area near Saskatoon, lots of places in the river valley just outside the city look just like that. Second picture too, though the trees look just slightly different enough from what's typical in the area that it throws it off a little bit. |
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Post by Steelernation on Oct 10, 2020 12:21:43 GMT -5
We’re at well below normal precipitation for the year, normal to date is 357 mm, but so far only 243 mm has fallen. Not much of a drought though although much of the state is in extreme drought.
The highest it got here was the D2 category. Some trees turned yellow/brown early but nothing major. The snow/rain in early September put a dent in the drought bringing it down to the D1 category.
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Post by jetshnl on May 15, 2021 15:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by rozenn on Aug 19, 2021 8:57:01 GMT -5
Time to revive this thread. Here's a photo comparison between August 2020 and August 2021 in a particular spot near Strasbourg, but the same is true for about half of the country. Looking at pics from last year makes me shudder, no wonder why dead trees are everywhere now.
Early August 2021
Early August 2020
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Post by Morningrise on Aug 22, 2021 8:47:36 GMT -5
^ Impressive difference! It's a similar situation in Saskatoon, most of our grass is parched and yellow which is quite rare to have in the summer. We're officially in one of the worst droughts on record.
We're currently at 118.9mm of precipitation for the year, with our wettest months behind us. At this time in 2001, the current driest year on record, we had about 130mm of precipitation. So it all depends on how wet our fall months end up being.
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Post by ilmc90 on Aug 22, 2021 9:10:54 GMT -5
No drought issues in most of the East and the Southern Plains. Didn't realize it was bad in the Northern Plains/Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Iowa, etc.).  |
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