{"id":19897,"date":"2021-06-25T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19897"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:38:26","slug":"drought-indicators-in-western-u-s-flash-warnings-of-the-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/drought-indicators-in-western-u-s-flash-warnings-of-the-big-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Indicators in Western U.S. Flash Warnings of the \u2018Big One\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian K Sullivan and Elizabeth Elkin – June 24, 2021<\/p>\n

(Bloomberg) — Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been falling in California. Now that summer is taking hold, she and her husband are considering shifting their meager water supplies into pastures so their animals will have enough to eat.<\/p>\n

Brunner\u2019s worries don\u2019t stop at the barnyard. The family\u2019s fields of shallots, garlic and goats are surrounded by thick Northern California forests, dried out and primed to burn. An early season wildfire near her home recently prompted Brunner to document her possessions and reevaluate her fire insurance. \u201cI don\u2019t feel safe anymore. It\u2019s going to hit us hard,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt about it, we\u2019re going to be inundated with fires. It\u2019s just a matter of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drought in a habitat shared with bears, cougars and coyotes, all searching for a drink, has a way of compounding the danger. \u201cThe animals are going to get more desperate,\u201d Brunner says.<\/p>\n

Unstoppable drought is rolling over California and the Western U.S. once again, as it has with little interruption since the new century began. Nearly 98% of land across 11 Western states is abnormally dry, and more than 90% is covered by some category of drought\u2014the worst levels in the U.S. Drought Monitor\u2019s 21-year history. Reservoirs have drained to their bottoms, leaving bath-tub rings on their shorelines. Rivers reduced to trickles are setting off conflicts for dwindling water rights. Millions of acres of trees and shrubs have turned from shade to fuel for the out-of-control blazes everyone predicts will come.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as drought goes, this is the big one, especially if we are talking about the broader drought across the whole Southwest,\u201d says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles. \u201cBy a lot of metrics, it is the most severe drought on record.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brian K Sullivan and Elizabeth Elkin – June 24, 2021 (Bloomberg) — Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been falling in California. Now that summer is taking hold, she and her husband are considering shifting their meager water supplies into pastures so … Continue reading Drought Indicators in Western U.S. Flash Warnings of the \u2018Big One\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[501,15916,36,34,15914,15915,8009],"class_list":["post-19897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-california","tag-daniel-swain","tag-disaster","tag-drought","tag-sarah-brunner","tag-water-supplies","tag-wildfire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5aV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19899,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}