Could you people please take your rain back? We're flooding up here

[TrogL]

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About 15 years ago I worked for the Alberta Forest Service. We'd get thunderstorms in May with a bit of rain and by June we'd be in drought conditions with everybody on high alert for fire season.

We've had torrential rain for the past week. I've got water in my basement for the first time since I've owned the house - about 25 years. Another neighbour is flooded. The back alley has 6 inches of water in it.

I understand you guys are having a record heat wave. is going on?

[DFW]

1. Put two words together: Climate+Change

And, as Marvin Gaye sang, you have „what‘s goin‘ on.“

Maybe, in the near future, that old ancient Roman conception of the aqueduct will be brought back into vogue. Then all we have to do is make them Tornado-proof (good luck).

[BigmanPigman]

2. Hello Climate Change and weather extremes.

Half of the country is bone dry and the other half is flooded. Gee, too bad no one ever told us this would happen....

[usonian]

3. If you can,

SEND
IT
TO
CALIFORNIA

Thanks in advance.

P. S. Isn't there some pipeline lying around?

[Emile]

4. Love to have some rain. It is hot and dry here. The grass is turning a golden

a brown and it looks like August.

[niyad]

5. C3-- Catastrophic Climate Change.

We would love it here if you would share your rain. We are in megadrought.

[Igel]

6. La Nina.

2nd year for this la nina , it was expected to fade instead of strengthen.

Last time it was like this was 2011. Central US was flooded badly that year.

We'd gladly take the rain back, but you have to arrange for shipping.

[Hortensis]

7. If only... Maybe the memories at least will be less unpleasant

when the heat and drought return.

Wonder if they're working on 6-week-to-harvest crops.

[TrogL]

11. I just finished buying summer tires

The farmers are probably furious. They need rain later in the year. It's sun they need right now.

I put a few raspberry bushes in that have since taken over the yard. I thought they were the quick harvest type. They said I could get two crops out of them. If we have an early winter like I'm expecting I'll be lucky to get anything off them.

[Hortensis]

12. :) Good luck. Poor farmers for real! Here in our part of GA,

we haven't had severe drought for a few years (it'll return); but the seasons are so messed up, with winter often seeming to skip spring to turn into summer, then more freezes, etc, that timing for bloom and berries that don't give up altogether is often very off. Migrating birds and insects miss their usuals altogether. The large butterfly bush outside our kitchen window is in full bloom without a single butterfly appearing so far.

[Chautauquas]

8. I bought shingles for my shed in the back yard a month ago

and I'm still waiting for a few days of no rain so I can put the new roof on. I'd also like to get the kayaks onto the lake at the state park a few miles away, but every time my wife and I clear our schedules it rains.

[Doc_Technical]

9. Why not build pipelines to transport water

from areas with too much water to areas
that don't have enough water?

[LeftInTX]

10. Get a bunch of people together and blow this way

It's La Nina...which sucks...

When trade winds blow faster near the Pacific Equitorial Dateline area it cause a cooling of the those tropical waters. Meanwhile there is warming of water in the Pacific NW. Warm water causes rain. Cold water causes drought. Also certain wind patterns come into play. When the winds slow down those tropical waters warm up and rain begins along with SW US. The opposite occurs in the Atlantic.



Keep in mind winds blow in opposite directions in the tropics than at mid latitudes...Tropics goes from E to W. Mid-latitudes W-E
Where I live in South Texas our summer winds are tropical, but winter winds are W-E..

Most of the US weather moves from West to East during the summer.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/wind-flow

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