Wet winter raises water levels, but drought persists

[ben_meyers]

This was supposed to be a dry Arizona winter, deprived of rain and snow by the oceanic weathermaker La Niña.

As sure as it's hot in August, if it's La Niña, it's dry in winter.

Tell that to workers at Roosevelt Lake who raced rising water levels last month to secure shifting boat docks as storm runoff poured into the reservoir.

"It came up 10 or 12 feet in one day," said Dan Grim, general manager of the marina, which is about a mile and a half east of Roosevelt Dam. "We have to keep adjusting the marina . . . to make sure the whole thing doesn't get sucked under."

But experts say they can't yet call an end to the state's ongoing drought. A wet year often interrupts long dry spells, and in the desert, dry spells can easily span 20 years.

"We have to assume what we have is what we'll have for a while," said Charlie Ester, water resources chief for the Salt River Project, which manages the reservoirs. "We have to manage what we have for as long as possible."

Whole lotta butt covering goin' on by the "experts" again.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0329drought0323.html

[jpak]

1. Global Warming is a Frodd!!!11111

:rofl:

[tom_paine]

2. I'm convinced. Global Warming is a Lie dreamt up by Liberal Scientists and the Liberal Media!

No, really. You convinced me!

:rofl:

[morningglory]

3. I'm series, folks!!!1! We had the coldest winter we have had in years here.

Does that change anything? Did the arctic recover some ice? Haven't heard any scientific papers on it.

[kestrel91316]

4. So I guess the rapid melting of Greenland, the Arctic ice cap,

and West Antarctica is all our imagination? As is the loss of islands in the Sundarbans?

Ok, you just go right back to counting your Exxon and Halliburton stock profits and driving your Hummer. Take up smoking, too, while you're at it. It doesn't cause cancer.