I'm not sure about Austin way, but in about a couple of weeks we'll be entering the rainy season in Dallas. The year I moved out here (2007) we had something like 22 days of rain, which nicely filled up the reservoirs that had been looking peaked; unfortunately it's been dryish since.
Normal seawater in the Gulf has a salinity of 35 parts per thousand. The Laguna Madre is at 43 PPT, and Baffin Bay/Alazan Bay are at near 50 and 50 plus. Unless we get a tropical douching, it's going to be a bad year down Corpus way for the humans and sea critters both. We are still in "extreme" drought conditions down here, and Lake Corpus Christi looks like Travis.
It's a repeat of the 1930's drought so probably about 10 years.
Not quite. We've gotten enough rain in San Antonio that they finally lifted all the water restrictions for now. I don't know what the spring and summer will bring, but we will see. Maybe I should start musing again about how nice it is to live inland. (The last time I did that, the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine barreled up through here and gave us about 5 inches of rain.
That's scary; I had no idea it was that bad.
ReplyDeleteDon't be swimmin' where the Bull licks...
ReplyDeleteCalifornia normally looks like that!
I'm not sure about Austin way, but in about a couple of weeks we'll be entering the rainy season in Dallas. The year I moved out here (2007) we had something like 22 days of rain, which nicely filled up the reservoirs that had been looking peaked; unfortunately it's been dryish since.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of Mountain Lake here in Virginia. Of course, that one has a hole in the bottom, so it's not really a fair comparison.
ReplyDeleteNormal seawater in the Gulf has a salinity of 35 parts per thousand. The Laguna Madre is at 43 PPT, and Baffin Bay/Alazan Bay are at near 50 and 50 plus. Unless we get a tropical douching, it's going to be a bad year down Corpus way for the humans and sea critters both. We are still in "extreme" drought conditions down here, and Lake Corpus Christi looks like Travis.
ReplyDeleteYep, that is ugly, and I don't know what this year is going to bring...
ReplyDeleteIt's a repeat of the 1930's drought so probably about 10 years.
ReplyDeleteIt's a repeat of the 1930's drought so probably about 10 years.
ReplyDeleteNot quite. We've gotten enough rain in San Antonio that they finally lifted all the water restrictions for now. I don't know what the spring and summer will bring, but we will see. Maybe I should start musing again about how nice it is to live inland. (The last time I did that, the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine barreled up through here and gave us about 5 inches of rain.
Wow. That's is far worse than I thought.
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