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re: Flash Drought!
Posted on 8/13/26 at 11:48 am to UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 8/13/26 at 11:48 am to UptownJoeBrown
Do you think that the term "flash drought" is new?
ETA: It really only matters if you are in fire country or certain types of ag.
ETA: It really only matters if you are in fire country or certain types of ag.
This post was edited on 8/13/26 at 11:51 am
Posted on 8/13/26 at 11:59 am to LegendInMyMind
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ETA: It really only matters if you are in fire country or certain types of ag.
Exactly. It doesn’t apply to the Karens of the neighborhood.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 12:06 pm to UptownJoeBrown
It is one of those things that shouldn't lead a news weather segment. Can it be an issue pretty much anywhere? Yes. It came into play in Louisiana during the hell Summer of 2023, early on when the ridge built and took over. It is a defined, real term that can influence decisions that most people will never have to make.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 12:08 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Flash Drought
Thing is the soccer moms and Karens will eat this shite right up.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 12:11 pm to TDsngumbo
In keeping with weather porn........you know that Louisiana was experiencing a drought right before........wait for it.................
KATRINA
coincidence?
KATRINA
coincidence?
This post was edited on 8/13/26 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 8/13/26 at 12:57 pm to KiwiHead
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In keeping with weather porn........you know that Louisiana was experiencing a drought right before........wait for it................. KATRINA coincidence?
Posted on 8/13/26 at 1:46 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
Do you think that the term "flash drought" is new?
new or not, it's a retarded, nonsensical term.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 1:48 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Geologists lick rocks. They dont do the weather.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 1:58 pm to dgnx6
I really wish it rain in BR. I’m getting lazy and my flowers are dying.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 1:58 pm to Sam Quint
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new or not, it's a retarded, nonsensical term.
For it's intended context it makes sense and is useful.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 1:59 pm to LegendInMyMind
What happened in the summer of 2023? I don’t remember
Posted on 8/13/26 at 2:09 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Atmospheric avalanche.
Or
Rain.
Or
Rain.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 2:12 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:yes it describes a rapid and unusually severe dry period
For it's intended context it makes sense and is useful.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 2:47 pm to cgrand
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yes it describes a rapid and unusually severe dry period
Explain how you have a "rapid dry period". It starts with no rain for a day and slowly turns into a drought as more and more days pass with no rain.
A week without rain is hardly a drought, so to be a drought, more time passes, thus not "Rapid".
It's a BS term.
Posted on 8/13/26 at 3:04 pm to gumbo2176
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Explain how you have a "rapid dry period". It starts with no rain for a day and slowly turns into a drought as more and more days pass with no rain.
A week without rain is hardly a drought, so to be a drought, more time passes, thus not "Rapid".
It isn't solely based on rainfall, it includes temperature, humidity levels, predominant soil moisture, and wind to come together to measure evaporation and rapid drying to vegetation and, to a lesser degree,soil moisture. There is a timeframe element that must be met as well.
2023 — beginning in late May/early June — really is a great, hyper-local example. Once the rapid onset component had been met, the longterm drought settled in. Around the beginning of August 2023 ~3% of the state of LA was in Extreme Drought. By the first week in November — at the peak of the drought — ~75% of the state was in Exceptional Drought (the worst on the scale).
The rapid onset of the drought back around the end of May 2023 set the stage for the continued rapid development of traditional, longterm drought as most know it.
The Tiger Island fire near Merryville ans Singer, which burned more than 30,000 acres, began on August 22 under Extreme Drought conditions and extremely low (relatively speaking) humidity thanks to the dome of high pressure parked over the region. Even with "normal" humidity recovery during nighttime hours that fire would have much easier to fight and contain. There was minimal recovery at night and daytime humidity was abnormally low.
This post was edited on 8/13/26 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 8/13/26 at 3:13 pm to UptownJoeBrown
It rained about an inch 6 days ago in BR
Posted on 8/13/26 at 3:51 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Geologists lick rocks. They dont do the weather.
Exactly. Can you tell Dr. Josh Eachus this? He doesn’t have a Doctorate of Meteorology but he might want you to assume he has one.
This post was edited on 8/13/26 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 8/13/26 at 4:00 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Who is that?
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