Drought for the west

[Irrelevant]

N idaho and NW Montana gonna blow out big time.

 

[44hunter45]

Still raining all day. Long power outage. I got the coffee done at 4:30AM exactly. I pulled the carafe out and out went the lights. It's a good thing, too. Nobody likes my camp pour-overs.

The thermometer on the porch says 39°F here at 2850 elevation. Those bears ought to show up nicely on the white background if you can get up that high.

Our tributary of the Palouse crested overnight. Lots of water on the road still this morning and the gravel roads washed out. At least one of my neighbors had water lapping at the door or coming in.

I feel for those folks in Red Lodge. And those who aren't getting a drop.

 

[44hunter45]

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N idaho and NW Montana gonna blow out big time.

I had another look at this. This is still coming?

 

[EYJONAS!]

That's our neighbors place across the rd. We're stacking bags.....

 

[Irrelevant]

I had another look at this. This is still coming?

yep, from this morning until Saturday

 

[westbranch]

yep, from this morning until Saturday

It looks like it would have included this past weekend since it says friday June 10 on the upper right? Found this one which still shows a lot of precip.

 

[Irrelevant]

It looks like it would have included this past weekend since it says friday June 10 on the upper right? Found this one which still shows a lot of precip.

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ah, good call. Definitely less for some areas, quite a bit more for some areas! NW Montana getting 7" of rain on snow? F-in' crazy. Even another 1" in the yellowstone country isn't going to be good.

 

[manitou1]

Man, it is either feast or famine. Sorry to see the property damage. We sure could use some more moisture here. Have had black clouds, thunder and lightning multiple times over the past 2 weeks and nothing for moisture. Drive 2 miles North and the have water standing in fields and mud puddles all over town. Our valley here gets neglected... a lot.

 

[mdeerjunkie]

Hopefully all this moisture is good for duck populations up north in Canada.

 

[Shangobango]

That's our neighbors place across the rd. We're stacking bags.....


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Dang man, keep us updated.

 

[hank4elk]

With most of NM still under exceptional or extreme drought and fires all over, there is a ray of hope.
99% of the models show good monsoonal flow Fri. through next week ....and maybe the month.

 

[lynlan1819]

Lake mead dropping 1-2 ft every few days. Only 48 ft too a dead pool !

 

[Oak]

Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a Senate hearing in Washington that federal officials now believe protecting “critical levels” at the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require much larger reductions in water deliveries.

“A warmer, drier West is what we are seeing today,” Touton told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “And the challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history.”

The needed cuts, she said, amount to between 2 million and 4 million acre-feet next year.

For comparison, California is entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water per year, while Arizona’s allotment is 2.8 million.

Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’

 

[hank4elk]

Today is official start of the SW Monsoon season.
Tomorrow I have a 20% chance and 50+% for the next week. 1st time I have ever had this good a look at it thus early.

 

[Oak]

 

[jbseamus83]

That's our neighbors place across the rd. We're stacking bags.....


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Whoa. Be careful.

 

[jbseamus83]

Still very little rain here in UT. Had a very small amount this last weekend, but virtually nothing predicted over the next 10 days. Hopefully that changes. Thoughts out to everyone dealing with the opposite problem in MT, ID, and WY. Be safe up there.

 

[hank4elk]

Rained last night in SF and dark clouds building here. Come on baby!

 

[hank4elk]

It's raining!
Damn that smells good!

 

[hank4elk]

So it starts. Monsoons.
Watching red ,yellow & lots of green flowing north on the news/weather radar.
Each day filled with clouds/lightning & rain for the week. The guy says, and through next week.

It should at least get us back to extreme & severe on the drought scale.
A few years of this with decent snowpacks and we could get out of this drought.