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Entire Area Officially In A Severe Drought
April 24, 2011
The North Escambia area is now officially in a severe drought, with no significant rainfall in weeks.
The U.S. Drought Monitor map published this week shows all of Escambia County, Florida and most of Santa Rosa County and Escambia County, Alabama as being in a severe drought, while nearby areas are in a moderate drought.
Our warm, dry spring weather will continue into next week. There is a slight 20-30 percent chance of rain by Tuesday and Wednesday as a cold front approaches the area.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is published by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln using a variety of climatic data.
NorthEscambia.com/U.S. Drought Monitor graphic, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “Entire Area Officially In A Severe Drought”
well put ART!
conservation is everyones’ responsibility and it starts with education. teach the kids so they grow up doing things in a conservative way, this was they will in turn teach their children. this will be the final war, the water war. life can not exist with out it.
if we didnt have the artesian water under our feet, we would be in a world of hurt. but we gotta be good stewards of that water. it is so precious. our farmers need to think faaaaar ahead and start a switch to methods/crops that dont require a lot of water. sugar beets in, cotton out. we have to watch the recharge rate of our aquifer and not put too big a demand due to irrigation. the days of squandering what we have because there has always been an abundance is over. being conservative doesnt necessarily mean bad. conservation is like a kissin’ cousin to the word conservative, know what i mean? (keepin’ politics out of it.) anyway, we got to have the mindset or we will fall into what the midwest is fearing. those pivot irrigation systems are burdening their aquifer to the extent, lot of smart folks believe they are at the brink of outdoing their recharge rate. what if they had no water to pump? (and here texas is in a severe drought, just like we are.) let’s just protect what we got.