Drought 2014

rimrocker · Aug 16, 2014

Current large fires.

rimrocker · Sep 9, 2014

Drought Outlook for September:

Uprising · Sep 9, 2014

It's certainly been a wet summer so far in East Texas....a nice change. Love the lower temperatures.

Uprising · Sep 18, 2014

So about that drought.....

Lot's of moisture being pulled into TX....remnants of Odile will be pouring moisture into West TX, and this moisture over South East TX. So much rain!

Buck Turgidson · Sep 18, 2014

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So about that drought.....
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It's currently pouring down rain in Burnet County, but drought is not about rain, it's about groundwater levels and lake levels and and aquifer levels and spring flows and river flows, none of which are anywhere close to being close to normal. So just because it rains or there's a hurricane or something, don't think that the actual drought is over.

Deji McGever · Sep 18, 2014

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/keyewx?src=hash">#keyewx</a> Nearly 50 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LowWaterCrossings?src=hash">#LowWaterCrossings</a> closed in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TravisCo?src=hash">#TravisCo</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WilCo?src=hash">#WilCo</a> <a href="http://t.co/htd2j8obB2">http://t.co/htd2j8obB2</a> Some rain totals exceed 6" <a href="http://t.co/nDCmlJ8quI">pic.twitter.com/nDCmlJ8quI</a></p>— Allison Miller (@Millerbars) <a href="https://twitter.com/Millerbars/status/512524082525794304">September 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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LonghornFan · Sep 19, 2014

Dude. ENOUGH already. So sick of this crap. Give us our mother ****ing rainbow already.

Roc Paint · Sep 19, 2014

LonghornFan said: ↑

Dude. ENOUGH already. So sick of this crap. Give us our mother ****ing rainbow already.
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Let me know when Barton Springs is flowing, and I'll come over for a visit.

dmc89 · Sep 19, 2014

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Dude. ENOUGH already. So sick of this crap. Give us our mother ****ing rainbow already.
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As a motorcyclist, this week has been intolerable. Car drivers become insane, especially around that I-45 and I-10 junction by downtown.

Roc Paint · Sep 19, 2014

dmc89 said: ↑

As a motorcyclist, this week has been intolerable. Car drivers become insane, especially around that I-45 and I-10 junction by downtown.
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No thank you!

LonghornFan · Sep 19, 2014

dmc89 said: ↑

As a motorcyclist, this week has been intolerable. Car drivers become insane, especially around that I-45 and I-10 junction by downtown.
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Bruh, I have to drive through that interchange on the way to work and on the way back home as I live right thur. I make sure to stay behind any car by at least 3-5 car lengths and take my time. I've seen 4 fender benders this past week due to people being in a rush. Idiots.

Dubious · Sep 19, 2014

Lake Travis is only going up about a foot and a half from this rain . It's still down around 38 feet.

http://hydromet.lcra.org/riverreport/report.aspx

rimrocker · Oct 3, 2014

4 trillion gallons=160 million swimming pools=96 billion bathtubs.

This trio of images depicts satellite observations of declining water storage in California as seen by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites in June 2002 (left), June 2008 (center) and June 2014 (right). Colors progressing from green to orange to red represent greater accumulated water loss between April 2002 and June 2014.

California's Sacramento and San Joaquin River basins, including the Central Valley, have suffered the greatest losses, in part due to increased groundwater pumping to support agricultural production. Between 2011 and 2014, the combined river basins have lost 4 trillion gallons (15 cubic kilometers, or 12 million acre-feet) of water each year, an amount far greater than California's 38 million residents use in cities and homes annually.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18816
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But wait, the numbers get even more insane when looking at the totals throughout the West as a whole...

Across the West, 63 trillion gallons of groundwater has been pumped since 2013 and it is changing the landscape.

The ongoing drought in the western United States has caused so much loss of groundwater that the Earth, on average, has lifted up about 0.16 inches over the last 18 months, according to a new study.

The situation was even worse in the snow-starved mountains of California, where the Earth rose up to 0.6 inches.

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the groundwater loss from the start of 2013 to be 63 trillion gallons — the equivalent of flooding four inches of water across the United States west of the Rocky Mountains.

The study, published online Thursday by the journal Science, offers a grim accounting of the drought’s toll.

“We found that it’s most severe in California, particularly in the Sierras,” said coauthor Duncan Agnew, professor of geophysics at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s predominantly in the Coast Ranges and the Sierras showing the most uplift, and hence, that’s where we believe is the largest water loss.”

That’s also about how much ice is lost from the Greenland ice cap every year from global warming.

Scientists came to this conclusion by studying data collected from hundreds of GPS sensors across the western United States, installed primarily to detect small changes in the ground due to earthquakes.

But the GPS data can also be used to show very small changes in elevation. Groundwater is very heavy, and its weight depresses the Earth's upper crust. Remove the weight, and the crust springs upward — and GPS sensors can detect how much higher the land has risen as a result of loss of groundwater.

The highest uplift of the Earth occurred in California’s mountains because there is so much water underneath them, Agnew said. The uplift was less in Nevada and the Great Basin.

“You can only lose water where there’s water to lose,” Agnew said.

According to the study, data showed the period of land lifting up as beginning in 2013, and continues to this day.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...st-in-drought-study-finds-20140821-story.html
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