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Thirsty Southern Drought Areas Likely to Finally See Widespread Soaking Rainfall This Week
By Chris Dolce
Nov 27 2016 08:56 AM EST
weather.com
VIDEO ~ Soaking Rain for Dry Southeast
Some areas in the Southeast have not seen rain in more than 40 days. Wildfires have become a big problem in the region. But there is good news in the coming week, with rain in the forecast. Meteorologist Danielle Banks explains.
Story Highlights
* A widespread soaking is finally on the way for the South this week.
* Parts of six states in the South are in exceptional drought, the worst category possible.
* One location in northeast Alabama had not seen rain for 89 straight days.
A well-needed soaking is on the way for parts of the southeastern United States in the throes of a major drought, where some locations have seen little, if any, rainfall for many weeks.
The potential for significant rainfall is courtesy of a more favorable jet-stream pattern taking shape during the first half of this week.
A sharp, southward dip in the jet stream will pull a surge of Gulf of Mexico moisture northward into the Deep South early this week. This will result in some much-needed rainfall.
Specifically, a pronounced southward dip in the jet stream in the western states will punch eastward through Wednesday. Forecast guidance is suggesting that the strong jet stream, in combination with its associated surface frontal system, will pull a significant surge of Gulf of Mexico moisture northward into the Deep South.
This weather-pattern setup will likely deliver one of the most widespread soakings portions of the South have seen in a long time.
Locations in various degrees of drought, from eastern Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas to Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and the western Carolinas, all have the potential to see up to two inches of rainfall, possibly more in some locales, during the first half of this week.
Exactly how much rain falls will depend on how this weather system evolves and how quickly it moves. The rain will come in two rounds – one moving in late Monday into Tuesday, and then another Tuesday night into Wednesday.
Potential Rainfall the Next Five Days
On the southern side of this storm system, there could also be severe storms. For more on that story, see the link below.
Latest Drought Status, Dry Streaks and Impacts
Exceptional drought, the worst category on the U.S. Drought Monitor, is currently affecting parts of six states in the South. A much larger area of the South is experiencing various other levels of drought severity, from eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma to the western Carolinas.
Alabama and Georgia lead the way with 35 percent and 34 percent of those states in exceptional drought, respectively. The percentage of Alabama in exceptional drought is the highest it has been since early 2008.
Southeast drought status, as of Nov. 22, 2016. Parts of six states were in exceptional drought, which is the worst category possible.
Oneonta, Alabama, had not seen measurable rain (0.01 inches or greater) for 89 straight days through Nov. 18, until receiving just a scant 0.03 inches of rain the following day.
Many other cities in Georgia and Alabama also have extensive record-long streaks with no measurable rain.
Record Streaks Without Measurable Rain
Through Nov. 26, 2016 (Data: ACIS)
* Cartersville, Georgia 69 days Previous record: 44 days ending October 20, 1938
* Dothan, Alabama 69 days Previous record: 49 days ending November 2, 1961
* Albany, Georgia 61 days Previous record: 27 days ending May 25, 2011
* Anniston, Alabama 61 days Previous record: 38 days ending July 1, 1988
* Rome, Georgia 60 days Previous record: 40 days ending October 10, 1897
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/southeast-drought-help-rainfall
A giant reservoir that supplies a California county’s drinking water is nearly empty
Nick Giese heads out to fish on Southern California’s Lake Cachuma. With the reservoir more than 90 percent below capacity, the surrounding region soon will face a water crisis. (Darryl Fears/The Washington Post)
By Darryl Fears November 13 at 5:10 PM
http://tinyurl.com/gt9eudc
Las Vegas Water-Rationing Looms Amid "Structural Drought" In US Southwest
by Tyler Durden
Aug 6, 2016 1:07 PM
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-06/las-vegas-water-rationing-looms-amid-structural-drought-us-southwest
8 lakes and rivers that are drying up
By: Shea Gunther on May 20, 2016, 10:19 a.m.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/7-lakes-and-rivers-that-are-drying-up/bone-dry
When in drought: the California farmers who don’t water their crops
Dry farming forgoes modern irrigation and, farmers say, produces much tastier crops. In a drought-stricken state, should others follow suit?
Ryan Power (right) and childhood friend Adam Davidoff run the New Family Farm. Photograph: Gary Ottonello/Handout
http://tinyurl.com/hgvqzgy
Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, Apr 5 2016
Boats stranded on the dry bed of Moyúa lake in northern Nicaragua, which has lost 60 percent of its water due to the severe drought plaguing the country since 2014. Credit: Courtesy of Rezayé Álvarez
http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/04/climate-change-dries-up-nicaragua/
The Middle East just suffered its worst drought in 900 years
By Ishaan Tharoor March 4, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/04/the-middle-east-suffered-its-worst-drought-in-900-years/
World's Biggest Dam Has ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Low Water Levels
Matthew Hill
January 8, 2016 — 5:20 AM EST
The Kariba Dam between Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Photographer: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-08/world-s-biggest-dam-has-extremely-dangerous-low-water-levels
As Brazil's Largest City Struggles With Drought, Residents Are Leaving
Updated November 22, 20157:21 PM
Renata Trindade, 26, lives in a northern neighborhood of Sao Paulo with her boyfriend. She says the government has been rationing water, so she sets aside dirty dishes to conserve water for bathing and flushing toilets. On weekdays, she gets water from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on weekends, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kainaz Amaria/NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/11/22/455751848/as-brazils-largest-city-struggles-with-drought-residents-are-leaving
In Puerto Rico, Water Has Been Cut Off
Aug 13, 2015 @ 1:29 PM
Scott Beyer, Contributor
The Carraizo reservoir, just south of San Juan proper.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2015/08/13/in-puerto-rico-water-has-been-cut-off/
If You Think the Water Crisis Can't Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained
We're pumping irreplaceable groundwater to counter the drought. When it's gone, the real crisis begins.
In ten years, the Colorado River Basin has lost the equivalent of two Lake Meads, the largest reservoir in the U.S., pictured here at dusk with Las Vegas in the background. [PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER ESSICK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC]
By Dennis Dimick, National Geographic
PUBLISHED August 21, 2014
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140819-groundwater-california-drought-aquifers-hidden-crisis/
Did The Mayor Of Los Angeles Just Poison The Entire County’s Water Supply?
avatar by Jeffrey Phillips | Aug 14, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/o5pqpbt
California drought: River that runs through downtown San Jose goes dry; fish and wildlife suffer
By Paul Rogers
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_28607817/california-drought-river-that-runs-through-downtown-san
California's drought is 'a harbinger of the coming global water crisis'
Corey Stern
Jul. 23, 2015, 1:49 PM
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-multi-decade-mega-drought-is-coming-to-the-us-2015-7#ixzz3grZW58aE
‘The water table is dropping all over the world’: NASA warns we’re on the path to global drought
U.S., on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. The Southern Nevada Water Authority is building a three-mile (five-kilometer), $817 million tunnel under Lake Mead to retain access to its Colorado River supply as the reservoir declines to 40 percent of capacity. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Cracked ground along the shore of Lake Mead is seen in Boulder City, Nevada, another symptom of drought research shows is becoming a global problem
Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post | June 17, 2015 11:09 AM ET
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/the-water-table-is-dropping-all-over-the-world-new-nasa-study-reveals-global-drought
California property values collapse as water shut-offs begin... wealthy community to go dry in days... real estate implosion now inevitable
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050101_California_drought_property_values_real_estate_collapse.html#ixzz3dN1kRaFY
7 Tips For Less-Frequent, More-Efficient Watering
Quench your garden’s thirst without driving up your water bill with these ideas for small-scale irrigation.
By Bill Strubbe
There’s no getting around it: If you want to grow a lush, healthy garden filled with nutritious fruits, vegetables and herbs, it’s gonna need some water. But quenching your crops’ thirst doesn’t mean your water bill has to go through the roof or that you need to waste this precious resource. Here are tips for irrigating smartly and to save you time, money and water in the process
http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-gardening/backyard-gardening/7-tips-for-less-frequent-more-efficient-watering.aspx
During record-breaking drought, CA activists want oil producers to cut their water use too
Rory Carroll, Reuters
Apr. 1, 2015, 11:40 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-california-activists-want-water-restrictions-to-include-oil-industry-2015-4
A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonThomson ReutersA pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California should require oil producers to cut their water usage as part of the administration’s efforts to conserve water in the drought-ravaged state, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
Governor Jerry Brown ordered the first statewide mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, directing cities and communities to cut their consumption by 25 percent. But the order does not require oil producers to cut their usage nor does it place a temporary halt on the water intensive practice of hydraulic fracturing.
California’s oil and gas industry uses more than 2 million gallons of fresh water a day to produce oil through well stimulation practices including fracking, acidizing and steam injection, according to estimates by environmentalists. The state is expected to release official numbers on the industry’s water consumption in the coming days.
“Governor Brown is forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought by cutting their personal water use while giving the oil industry a continuing license to break the law and poison our water,” said Zack Malitz of environmental group Credo.
“Fracking and toxic injection wells may not be the largest uses of water in California, but they are undoubtedly some of the stupidest,” he said.
The industry has received scrutiny for how it disposes of undrinkable water produced during oil drilling. Last month the state ordered the operators of 12 wells to halt injections of the water out of fear that it could contaminate fresh drinking water supplies.
Oil industry officials on Wednesday said that oil drilling in the state produces more water than oil, which is frequently put to good use.
“In many instances, that water is provided to agriculture to grow crops or is recycled to produce additional energy supplies,” said Tupper Hull of the Western State Petroleum Association.
Two oil companies, Chevron Corp and the California Resources Corporation, provide 68 million barrels of water a year to agriculture in Kern County, Hull said.
“That’s more than 8,700 acre feet of water, 30 times more than all of the water used in hydraulic fracture by all oil companies per year," he said.
In an interview with the PBS Newshour on Wednesday, Brown indicated that curbing oil industry water use would not help a state so dependent on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel.
“If we don’t take it out of our ground, we’ll take it out of someone else’s,” Brown said.
(Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-california-activists-want-water-restrictions-to-include-oil-industry-2015-4#ixzz3WFYvbHdU
California Imposes First Mandatory Water Restrictions to Deal With Drought
By ADAM NAGOURNEYAPRIL 1, 2015
http://tinyurl.com/ngsoh82
The term Peak Water is the point when water which was once abundant is or has become more scarce. Indicators of this point will center on the cost of water and its availability. The latter indicates to users that conservation has now become imperiative to preserve this valuable commodity.
Unfortunately any commodity which once was abundant will always be treated as abundant even when the warning signs indicate a scarcity is developing and that conservation is warranted. The world is facing this predicament as population growth continues almost unabated, but commodities including water are not increasing.
The purpose of this board is to discuss the trends that are affecting the availability of pure water found deep in the ground, and in fresh water lakes, streams and rivers.
Ground water is found in aquifers. "An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer
Without adequate pure water, all you can envision of the earth is a picture of a desert void of plant growth. Simply put, life will cease to exist without pure water.
The salt water of the earth is much more plentiful and supports marine organisms, which are important food source, but cannot be readily used directly to drink or irrigate the land masses.
Pure water, on the other hand, is nesessary for every human being and animal. Compromised water will adversely affect people's health. Prolonged consumption of impure water can have dire results.
USGS Groundwater Watch
http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/
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