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["Chris Clarke" <hstead AT nc.rr.com>]

The SE US is, after the desert SW, the area in the US that has the
widest range of annual precipatation.  Variability of 25% can and does
occur in this area.   While places in the SW have a variability of 40%,
25% of an average of 50" of rain is a lot more than 40% of 15...   We
are VERY dry this year.  Little summer precip, and none of the usual
tropical rains we usually get.   We better have a healthy winter, or
next year is going to be bad.

Chris Clarke



-----Original Message-----
From: homestead-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:homestead-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rob
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:06 PM
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Let's talk about water...


At  10/20/2007 08:08 AM,Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:
>At 10/20/2007, you wrote:
> >What occurs is that the current drought in NW Georgia, east 
> >Tennessee, and part of the Carolinas and, I believe, Alabama, is not 
> >an anomaly--it is a recurring cycle--and we should plan to handle 
> >such conditions.
>
>   See the link:
>http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

I've been tracking that page since 2003 and just took a look. GA has 
been 'showing' drought since the map dated 13 Feb 07, WY and SD have 
been showing drought on all 158 of the maps I've saved. Good thing a 
lot of people don't live in that part of the country.



Rob
becida AT comcast.net