From the Baton Rouge Advocate:
A statewide burn ban takes effect at 9 a.m. Wednesday, an order issued because of persistently dry weather that has caused severe to exceptional drought over 90 percent of Louisiana, state officials said.
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The ban takes effect on the first day of the June 1-Nov. 30 hurricane season and after weeks of flooding fears from the swollen Mississippi River.
The paradoxical mix of climatic threats raises the possibility of simultaneous federal declarations for both flood and drought in some parishes now coping with Morganza Spillway inundations, state and federal officials said.
Land in these areas may be either in severe or extreme drought conditions or inundated, depending on what side of the levees it lies, the officials said.
I've never known a time when we have gone for months without rain in south Louisiana. About a month ago, we had two brief showers, which the dry ground soaked up immediately and which helped the situation not at all.
I believe in climate change.
Something about the devil and the deep blue sea comes to mind...
ReplyDeleteYou continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.
Something about the devil and the deep blue sea...
ReplyDeleteTobias, exactly. If a hurricane strikes, we will have rain. I hope that drought and hurricanes are not the only alternatives.
Thank you for your prayers.
PS: Tom just told me that the temperature is predicted to reach 100 degrees today. That's the kind of lagniappe that I did not need.
Our weather in Michigan is continually different of late...I don't ever remember weather like this and neither does the weather service here.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you! I believe, and am praying for all of us.
Meanwhile, here in "Sunny California", we're having hail and a tornado warning! Hail...on the first day of JUNE!!!! WTF?! [Our daytime high is like 25-30 degrees below normal!]
ReplyDeleteWe had colder temperatures this winter than usual, with more days of sustained cold whether.
ReplyDeleteMichigan, California - something's abrew.
Now Grandmere: you know it's just one of them thar ol' climate cycles!
ReplyDelete"Sir", what will it take?
ReplyDeleteI will let y'all know when it rains here.