Cant remember such a dry March, or spring!
The following thread was started by Brendan on May 06, 2008 at 2:45 pm PST
I remember more then one year, hot and dry and nasty dust storms. It was hot and dry, with a lot less orchards back then.
Hot dry winds, burned the young row crops to the ground, and then had to be planted. Hot dry springs were far more common decades ago, then I think people remember or even know.
I remember twice back then, hot and dry sand storms of sorts. The wind would blow for many days, and the sky would turn dark, so dark you could nearly look at the sun. The sun was like looking though thick clouds, form a brush or forest fire. When you went out, you always came back, gritty everywhere on your body.
David
The above followup was added by DavidLJ48, Waterford CA, zone14 on May 06, 2008 at 3:00 pm PST.
was very dry, required irrigating of winter wheat, etc. in areas that had never required it.
The above followup was added by HarveyC on May 06, 2008 at 3:50 pm PST.
Pete Giddings was going nuts about the drought and bricks in the toilet,30 second showers,grey water on the roses.
Turned out bricks were bad for the toilet , so was pure grey water another bad idea.
I remember missing rain.
The above followup was added by stan on May 06, 2008 at 5:50 pm PST.
I typed that in too much of a rush, I guess. The spring of 1977 was when a lot of extra irrigating of crops became necessary.
The above followup was added by HarveyC on May 06, 2008 at 8:30 pm PST.
It is interesting, it seems that major cold drops in winter, relate to radically wet and dry years.
http://watersupplyconditions.water.ca.gov/background.cfm
David
The above followup was added by DavidLJ48, Waterford CA, zone14 on May 06, 2008 at 11:05 pm PST.
Great link!
Jeff
The above followup was added by Jeff on May 07, 2008 at 1:16 pm PST.
It showed that they found evidence, that the Northern Hemispheres, including Europe was in a mini Ice Age just prior and during the Black Plaque days of Europe. I had not ever seen that in a history book.
The people were always starving when the rats arrived, so in a weakened and sickly state, the Black Plague easily wipe out around 34 million in Europe.
They were saying too, it looks like there was a 7 year drought in the area of Central America at the time of the demise of the Aztecs. They had their problems, but the lack of rain finished the work. It said, they collected most of their water from weekly and daily rain fall through various built systems and sink holes, not from rivers and such. So when the rain stopped, they starved and died of disease, and the farmers most likely moved elsewhere.
We don't seem to realize what nature has done in the past to affect us good and bad. But they do agree every high point in history, where man has excelled, has been during a Global Warming Period; good or bad, for what ever the data is worth.
Most of the cooling and heating up periods were said to be caused by the sun heating and cooling, unless the volcano were at fault, blocking sunlight and cooling the earth. Mankind has almost starved out in the past, from such events from nature, our mess seems so small in comparison.
David
The above followup was added by DavidLJ48, Waterford CA, zone14 on May 07, 2008 at 2:37 pm PST.