flood watch

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 15 Sep 2013, 08:25

A bit of the Colorado seems to be flowing in the wrong place:

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woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 15 Sep 2013, 17:48

The wrong place? Have you consulted the Colorado? It may have a different opinion.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 15 Sep 2013, 17:51

Ok, ok, so the river's in the right place and they put the fracking gas well in the wrong place!

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 15 Sep 2013, 18:52

Right, let's find who was responsible for that stupid decision.

It could happen to a brook near you soon. The same person may be responsible.

JavaScriptDonkey · Post by **JavaScriptDonkey** » 15 Sep 2013, 22:15

kenneal - lagger wrote:The Colorado has been causing problems recently as it has been experiencing record low levels due to a lack of winter snow and consequent melt. Most of the West Coast cities as well as desert cities such as Las Vegas rely on the Colorado for their water supply. Seems that the climate scientists' predictions of more severe weather events is coming to fruition all over the world, JSD. (This isn't just another heavy rain storm, as you commented on another thread, is it)

Are you sure you want to publicly lay this one down to climate change?

It is an unusual event but only in so much as it all fell in one place. The rain would normally fall West of, on top and of East of the Rockies.

What do you think keeps the Mississippi flowing?

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 16 Sep 2013, 16:19

http://www.texassharon.com/2013/09/15/i ... -colorado/

http://weldairandwater.org/2013/09/14/114/

Fracking clever. There is no reason this couldn't happen in the UK. Except for the names and a few other changes, the story is the same one.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Sep 2013, 07:56

Seems Typhoon Man-yi has been delivering rain at a rate of 3 inches per hour to Japan. "An unprecedented amount of rainfall" in Kyoto, Fukui and Shiga, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 17 Sep 2013, 13:40

Scan down the page just over half way to see lots of photos.
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-sev ... l-20130912

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Sep 2013, 17:55

My holiday snaps in the rain: http://vimeo.com/74683562

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 17 Sep 2013, 21:26

JavaScriptDonkey wrote:
kenneal - lagger wrote:The Colorado has been causing problems recently as it has been experiencing record low levels due to a lack of winter snow and consequent melt. Most of the West Coast cities as well as desert cities such as Las Vegas rely on the Colorado for their water supply. Seems that the climate scientists' predictions of more severe weather events is coming to fruition all over the world, JSD. (This isn't just another heavy rain storm, as you commented on another thread, is it)
Are you sure you want to publicly lay this one down to climate change?

It is an unusual event but only in so much as it all fell in one place. The rain would normally fall West of, on top and of East of the Rockies.

What do you think keeps the Mississippi flowing?

Umm People, The Colorado river is not the one that is flooding. It drains the west side of the continental divide and is not labeled on your map. Look for the unnamed rivers that begin west of Denver and flow southwest. Three come together at the southern Utah border west of Colorado, that is the Colorado river which flows through the grand canyon then past Las vegas then south past Yuma Arizona and outlets (When there is any water left) into the Gulf of California in Mexico. This flood is on the south Platte river and the water will end up passing New Orleans some 900 miles the other way. Some of this rain made it over the divide but they could have used all of it on that side as both lake Powell and lake Meade are less then half full after several dry years and ever increasing demand for water.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Sep 2013, 21:50

More about the flooded oil and gas fields at
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ ... looded-oil
and
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/0 ... -flooding/

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 18 Sep 2013, 16:55

Arty pics of Colorado floods.

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 18 Sep 2013, 19:34

Colorado is soooo yesterday's news, today it's Mexico

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 18 Sep 2013, 22:02

Yes, Mexico had an Atlantic and a Pacific storm at the same time.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 19 Sep 2013, 01:58

The weather is getting like buses - three abnormal event come along at once.

Anyone seen this article in the Daily Mail forecasting snow for the UK, including the south, in October? They've been looking at the jet stream forecast again.

I don't think that they have a definite forecast. They are just basing their predictions on the fact that the jet stream is continuing to meander which will bring colder Arctic air south over the UK at some time in the month and probably snow with it.