{"id":337,"date":"2015-07-27T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=337"},"modified":"2024-12-27T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:23:18","slug":"rain-met-drought-drought-doesnt-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/rain-met-drought-drought-doesnt-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain met drought, drought doesn&#8217;t care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems a tautology that rain reduces drought. Yet our water picture is so surreal that the National Weather Service just said, &#8220;. . .&nbsp;local rainfall in&nbsp;Southern California does not necessarily&nbsp;help the drought situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How so? It hinges on the meaning of &#8220;the drought situation.&#8221; We are involved in two drought situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One is related to&nbsp;the below normal rainfall we&#8217;ve received on our very roofs in Southern California over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other is about the below normal rainfall most of the Western U.S. has received over the last few years, especially Northern California and the Colorado River watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;d think the amount of rain&nbsp;falling on our roofs &#8212; the local drought situation &#8212; would be the more important of the two, but then you&#8217;d be forgetting where the water from our faucets originates. The water we use comes mostly from Northern California and the Colorado River. The rain&nbsp;that falls on our roofs goes basically unused and is <a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treated like sewage<\/a>, and that&#8217;s why the NWS can rightly say that the deluge we received in mid-July had little to no impact on our drought situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a tautology that rain reduces drought. Yet our water picture is so surreal that the National Weather Service just said, &#8220;. . .&nbsp;local rainfall in&nbsp;Southern California does not necessarily&nbsp;help the drought situation.&#8221; How so? It hinges on the meaning of &#8220;the drought situation.&#8221; We are involved in two drought situations. 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