Old Coot
11-30-2008, 10:34 AM
Here we are at the beginning of December with no meaningful snow in the mountains and my local total precip for the water season is 4+" below normal.
Listening to this morning's NOAA broadcast in the shower, I noted that for the calendar year Salem's precip is just over 10 inches below normal. That's a shortage of 33%. The precip for the water year, which began October 1, or just 60 days ago, is over 4 inches below normal.
Is this just a mid-valley anomaly or are we trending into a regional drought? What are your local weather stations reporting?
(Please don't degenerate this thread into the usual my-radio-commentator/political-party-says-your-scientists-are-full-of-it whizzing match. The numbers I cited above are empirical data, not theorhetical predictions.)
What's happening in your watersheds?
OC
Listening to this morning's NOAA broadcast in the shower, I noted that for the calendar year Salem's precip is just over 10 inches below normal. That's a shortage of 33%. The precip for the water year, which began October 1, or just 60 days ago, is over 4 inches below normal.
Is this just a mid-valley anomaly or are we trending into a regional drought? What are your local weather stations reporting?
(Please don't degenerate this thread into the usual my-radio-commentator/political-party-says-your-scientists-are-full-of-it whizzing match. The numbers I cited above are empirical data, not theorhetical predictions.)
What's happening in your watersheds?
OC