September 29, 2014
By Jake Flanagan
...Lochhead for The San Francisco Chronicle. (click here) “Aquifers are being drained at n alarming pace. More than 95 percent of the area’s native habitat has been destroyed by cultivation or urban expansion, leaving more endangered bird, mammal and other species in the southern San Joaquin than anywhere in the continental U.S.”
The drought may cost the region’s farmers upward of $1.7 billion in damages and lost crops, resulting in more than 14,500 farmhand layoffs, Mr. Sahagun writes. “Central Valley irrigators will only get two-thirds of their normal water deliveries,” he says. “Additional pumping of groundwater to replace those shortages will cost farmers about $450 million. About 410,000 acres, or 6 percent, of the irrigated cropland in the Central Valley will be fallowed this year.”...
Earth is experiencing a crisis far different from the Islamic State, although the Islamic State has mapped out the water supply of the region as a target to win. Earth is parched of water because of decades if not nearly a century of anthropogenic greenhouse gas pollution and the irresponsible disregard of scientists warning of exactly what is happening today.
If governments don't end their pollution of greenhouse gases into the troposphere no one will ever have to worry about the Islamic State again. All arguments will be settled and it will God that has The Last Word.
September 29, 2014
By Miguel llanos
Long duration heat waves (click here) "are becoming increasingly likely" due to human-caused climate change, but its effect on other types of extreme events — California’s prolonged, severe drought and extreme rain in Colorado, for instance — is a lot less clear, according to a sweeping report that seeks to analyze extreme weather events in the context of climate change.
The difference in confidence, the report's authors said Monday, is that while connecting higher temperatures to heat extremes is relatively straightforward, detecting a human signal in more complex events like droughts or storms is much harder.
"Temperature is much more continuous as opposed to precipitation, which is an on/off event," Tom Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center, told NBCNews.com. "If you have an on/off event, it makes the tools we have a little more difficult to use."...
California's water emergency has caused the state government to turn to old reservoirs that have not been used in decades and taking control of aquifers underground to provide water to everyone and not just those that are lucky enough to be in the path of severe rains and flooding.
The effects are everywhere. There is absolutely no reason to disregard the warnings that are now five decades old.
Wind Map (click here)
There is a large high pressure system that is permanent off California's coast.
September 29, 2014
2030.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click here)
There was a Category One Hurricane off the Baja Peninsula. The land is so parched and the air so dry, it is removing the water vapor from the hurricane into the troposphere with a trail as far as Texas.
Monday, September 29, 2014 9:14 AM MDT (click here)
There is hardly a cloud in the sky this morning, anywhere on the Baja peninsula. Temperatures will continue to warm back up across the peninsula too, peaking late in the week. On our Tropical Watch we have Rachel, which was reduced to a Tropical Storm this morning, well to the west of the peninsula that to the surprise of all became aa hurricane over the weekend. Down south there is another emerging threat that is at least forecast to bring us rain by next weekend in Baja California Sur for a couple of days.
September 17, 2014
weather.com
California's water emergency has caused the state government to turn to old reservoirs that have not been used in decades and taking control of aquifers underground to provide water to everyone and not just those that are lucky enough to be in the path of severe rains and flooding.
The effects are everywhere. There is absolutely no reason to disregard the warnings that are now five decades old.
There is a large high pressure system that is permanent off California's coast.
2030.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click here)
There was a Category One Hurricane off the Baja Peninsula. The land is so parched and the air so dry, it is removing the water vapor from the hurricane into the troposphere with a trail as far as Texas.
Monday, September 29, 2014 9:14 AM MDT (click here)
There is hardly a cloud in the sky this morning, anywhere on the Baja peninsula. Temperatures will continue to warm back up across the peninsula too, peaking late in the week. On our Tropical Watch we have Rachel, which was reduced to a Tropical Storm this morning, well to the west of the peninsula that to the surprise of all became aa hurricane over the weekend. Down south there is another emerging threat that is at least forecast to bring us rain by next weekend in Baja California Sur for a couple of days.
September 17, 2014
weather.com
Hurricane Odile (click here) roared into Baja California on Sunday night, causing extensive damage across the scenic peninsula. At luxury hotels in Cabo San Lucas, windows were blown out, structures were destroyed and lower floors were flooded, while entire neighborhoods were leveled and trees and power lines were toppled across Los Cabos.
After the storm passed, residents in local neighborhoods combed through the rubble of destroyed houses to retrieve belongings while in Cabo San Lucas. Looters grabbed everything they could carry at several stores along the tourist strip before troops intervened....
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With any luck California will receive some rain. How much? Hard to say because the hurricanes have relocated due to anthropogenic global warming. The hurricanes, due to the overriding Coriolis Effect are now occurring more frequently west of North America.
There were six hurricanes in the Atlantic Season this year with only one more month to go and none saw landfall.
If this trend continues, Europe will have more rainfall from hurricanes than the USA will and the east coast will find it's drought returning. The problem with any relief for California is that as these storms move northward they will dissipate due to very dry air aloft.
Another drought report will be out on Thursday, October 2nd. Hopefully it will reveal some moisture from Hurricane Odile will have reached southern California.
With any luck California will receive some rain. How much? Hard to say because the hurricanes have relocated due to anthropogenic global warming. The hurricanes, due to the overriding Coriolis Effect are now occurring more frequently west of North America.
There were six hurricanes in the Atlantic Season this year with only one more month to go and none saw landfall.
If this trend continues, Europe will have more rainfall from hurricanes than the USA will and the east coast will find it's drought returning. The problem with any relief for California is that as these storms move northward they will dissipate due to very dry air aloft.
Another drought report will be out on Thursday, October 2nd. Hopefully it will reveal some moisture from Hurricane Odile will have reached southern California.
