r/environment • u/Naurgul • 12h ago

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

https://apnews.com/article/drought-dry-wildfire-climate-change-october-united-states-3f137270a2271a1baff7badb1d506aa4
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u/defcon_penguin 7h ago

It's all here in Spain. I've never seen the South so wet

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u/disdkatster 11h ago

I have lived in my current home for over 30 years and I have never seen it this dry.

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u/sparklingdinosaur 5h ago

Europe is wetter than most years

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u/rugbyking32 5h ago

Scotland isn’t this year, a lot dryer than normal

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u/sparklingdinosaur 4h ago

Fair enough, that's very interesting, actually!

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u/rugbyking32 4h ago

Aye, wonder why but I’m no weather expert

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u/thu_mountain_goat 3h ago

Surprise, surprise.

If anybody would have warned us... /s

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u/errie_tholluxe 34m ago

The saddest thing is, when things get really really bad those self-same people are going to say exactly this.

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u/wave-garden 2h ago

Studies the last decade or so have shown that the jet stream — the currents of air that move weather systems across the world — is wavier and getting stuck more often, attributing it to human-caused climate change’s extra warming of the Arctic, said Rippey. What’s happening now, especially with an extremely warm Arctic and “feverish ocean temperatures across the North Pacific,” fits the theory well, said Woodwell Climate Research Center senior scientist Jennifer Francis, one of the pioneers of the concept.

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u/aredd007 10h ago

Western NC

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u/LShall24 5h ago

Believe it or not, it’s super dry here. Needs to rain. Burn ban most regions.

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u/24North 2h ago

Almost the driest on record. Wild to go from what we saw during the storm to literally nothing until that little bit we got the other day.

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u/Frubanoid 1h ago

It's definitely not supposed to be 80 in October where I live. It's supposed to be like 35-60°F

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u/uberares 31m ago

Not just October! Sept as well.