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NYC_SKP

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3. No, the drought is not over, good grief. It's a long way from over if, in fact, it ever ends.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:56 PM

Dec 2014

(Puts on his pattern-recognition helmet)

First, droughts are neither declare to have begun nor to have ended based on anything less than several YEARS worth of data.

Second, these recent storms represent scarcely 10% of what we need to see by April to hit our average.

It's misleading to show the drought map and the precipitation maps together, then do not reflect the same data.

You and your graphs and charts. Don't make me go find a lemon chart again!

Happy Holidaze!

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San Jose records wettest December in nearly 60 years with Monday rain [View all] KamaAina Dec 2014 OP

Worst drought on record is over, it is exceptionally excellent news. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1

No, the drought is not over, good grief. It's a long way from over if, in fact, it ever ends. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #3

One must not sit on their past and ancient laurels, real or imagined, and must keep on learning. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #4

It's a deep hole you dig when you make a claim that can't be backed up. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #5

One day observed rainfall graph? NOW I understand your fear of charts and graphs. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #6

Claims that "the drought is over" are not only untrue, they might induce complacency, water waste. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #7

Thanks for the info. I am also a big water conserver, wetlands behind my home. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #8

A flame war over the drought?! KamaAina Dec 2014 #10

Worse, semantics. antiquie Dec 2014 #11

I remember 1978 and 1990 something as being wet olddots Dec 2014 #2

Needed: 11 Trillion Gallons to Replenish California Drought antiquie Dec 2014 #9

State's estimated rainfall in last 10 days: 10 trillion gallons Brother Buzz Dec 2014 #12