Wildfires Rage In Arizona; Southwestern US Faces Megadrought
Image: NASA Earth Observatory
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has warned against a megadrought approaching dangerous levels in the southwestern US. Wildfire conditions have been ripe across the region as Red Flag Warnings have been sprouting up from California to Texas.
Arid conditions in Arizona appear to have sparked a duo of wildfires burning in the state, forcing thousands of folks to flee as firefighters struggle to contain the blazes.
One of the fires rages just south of Prescott National Forest, located in north-central Arizona. Mandatory evacuations orders forced thousands from their homes in Minnehaha, Fort Misery, and Horsethief Basin, while Crown King was placed on alert Sunday. The fire has been dubbed the Tussock Fire.
“There is significant danger to you, gather necessary items and go,” read a Facebook post operated by the Arizona Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Facebook page continued to say the Tussock Fire is “approximately 3,500 acres; 0% containment.”
The second wildfire is approximately 2,560 acres and stood at 35% contained as of Sunday evening. The fire is called Copper Canyon Fire and is burning 3 miles northeast of Globe in Gila County, located in the state’s central part.
The US Drought Monitor as of last week shows more than 40% of the country is in drought coverage. Most of the “extreme” to “exceptional” drought is in the southwestern US.
“There have only been four times in the history of the drought monitor that we have seen more than 40% US drought coverage as we come into early May,” said USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey. “The current US drought coverage is 46.6% of the lower 48 states in drought. That is a 2.6% increase from what we saw five weeks ago.”
Fears of another 1930s Great Depression-style drought are quickly materializing in the southwestern US.
Utah and Nevada recorded their driest years in more than 126 years in 2020, while Arizona and Colorado had their second driest and New Mexico its fourth. The Southwest, plagued with “severe,” “extreme,” and “exceptional” drought conditions, suggests similarities to the Great Depression’s Dust Bowl of the 1930s (read: “Return Of The Dust Bowl? The “Megadrought” In The Southwest Is Really Starting To Escalate”).
Besides escalating wildfires and water shortages, farmers in the western half of the country are frightened of a significant agricultural disaster this growing season as the drought rages. The exceptional dryness could result in crop failures that would ultimately send agricultural prices even higher. So much for that “transitory” inflation, the Federal Reserve continues to squawk about…
Now Dust Bowl conditions have returned, wildfires begin to break out, and farmers are panicking about crop failures.
But don’t worry, the Federal Reserve will just print more money in the name of climate change.
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Heretic Jones
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Yes, the cabal intends to burn the west this summer. They said there would be ‘terrorism’. They said there would be a ‘pandemic’. They said there would be ‘cyber attacks’. And they’ve said it’s gonna be a ‘bad wildfire season’.
For goodness sake, a recent cover of Time Magazine (one of their vehicles for predictive programming and psychological conditioning) showed a hand holding a match to the globe, i.e., arson.
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Chris
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So they admitt that it will be arson.
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Wisenox
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You can track global temps by month/year in this map:
http://climatlas.com/temperature/jra55_temperature.php
If you start at 1960 and go up by decade, you can see the hot spot start and grow.
Coincidentally, this corresponds with the use of aluminum for weather and rocketry purposes.
Arson? I believe aluminum can reverberate in the infrared range when excited.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Heretic and hopefully PSI Readers,
Do you ever ask yourselves what or who is ZEROHEDGE.COM??? It certainly isn’t PSI which was founded for the SCIENTIFIC REASON to try to correct a wrong SCIENTIFIC IDEA known as the GREENHOUSE EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE (GHE).
ZEROHEDGE as a company has nothing to do with SCIENCE; it’s business is financial. So, what it is doing writing articles like this one??? Free advertising???
The images of this article do not define exactly what the colors of the government figures represent. From the text I assume they might be about some scale of drought conditions.
Heretic and other readers, have you pondered: Were there possible drought conditions a thousand or two thousand years ago??? I suspect that 2000 thousand years ago there was the lighting of thunderstorms which started some wildfires. Otherwise, why don’t we find some NATURAL forests of trees
which a thousand of two thousand years old??? Yes, there may be a few trees that are that old but not a NATURAL FOREST of old growth trees which to our knowledge have never been logged.
I believe a reason that wildfires have become a greater problem in the last 50, or 100 years, or even longer is the we for good reasons, do not let NATURALLY cause wildfires to burn themselves out.
A fact of life is that trees are going to eventually die, grass many places dies every year, and people have always died of this and that. Galileo was not afraid to die because of his SCIENCE. Yes, he had to lie to save his life because he knew his work (book) was not yet written. What he didn’t know how his BOOK would be so UNREAD.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
I have been trying to make some sense from the first image and this text which follows the second image. “Fears of another 1930s Great Depression-style drought are quickly materializing in the southwestern US.”
Relative to the first image I assume the blue represents above average surface moisture, the white normal, and the orange below average surface moisture. Clearly, we should see that the first image is created from observations (measurements) made from space and the second image from ‘ground-based’ observations (measurements). And one of these ground-based sites is the RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations) project which has more than 2000 sites in all states and territories. Many of which are concentrated in the western states where there is much National Forest and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land whose CLIMATE IS DRY during the entire year.
So the threat of wildfires in Arizona and these other dry western states never goes away.
But the drought of the 1930’s was centered in mid-states beginning in Texas on north to North Dakota. And during the 30’s many farmers of these statespmigrated to the west coast states of CA, OR, and WA. And because of the economical Depression the CCC (Civil Conservation Corp) were building lodges in OR and not fighting wildfires. Hence, there appears little evidence of a drought where the 1930s’ droughts actually occurred.
FEAR is the name of the game now. The people who settled the dry western states along with South and North Dakota with their inhospitable winter climates were brave people who loved to work to earn a living.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Mark Tapley
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These areas in the west, s. west are just in a dry climate. Some years worse than others. There are some other factors in California. When there is a brush fire they run and put it out. Whenever possible it should be left to burn in order to get rid of all the thickets and under brush. Just keep it from houses and other buildings. I have seen photos of expensive housing and sub divisions right up against thickets and wooded areas full of kindling. Especially in these dry areas, people need to keep this junk away from their houses.
Many fires have been set by campsites (some intentionally) by the masses of illegal immigrants flooding into Cal. to get on welfare. The destruction of property or worse is of no consequence to many of them. Half of all the welfare recipients in Jewmerica are in California because it pays the most. When you subsidize something you get a lot more of it and Cal. gives the best deal on handouts while doing everything possible to drive out the productive segments of society.
I have seen ignorant comments on the net from people in reference to the fact that houses are burned down but trees around it were left with little damage. That is when we get the theories about energy weapons and such. The fact is that many big trees take up large amounts of water from from the roots and so the tissues are saturated with moisture. You can sometimes cut down a large tree and see water running out. As trees get bigger they are able to do a better job of getting water and under dry conditions it is estimated that a large pecan tree can pull in over 300 gallons per day.
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