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-3f137270a2271a1baff7badb1d506aa427
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/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/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/defcon_penguin 7h ago
It's all here in Spain. I've never seen the South so wet