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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
 
Today is the 99th day since metropolitan Phoenix got any measurable rain. We're headed for a record. The current record is 101 days without rain.

If this keeps up, we're in for a nasty wildfire season.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Ouch. Hate it when that happens. I'll think very wet thoughts for you.
 

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Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
 
Ah, Phoenix, where a baby's first words are often, "but it's a dry heat".
 

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Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
And last year was so beautiful when Spring hit. The flowers were spectaclar because of all of the winter rain.
 

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Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
 
On the bright side, there's only about 150 days left until the monsoon season.
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
I hear you, although Tucson has gotten a sprinkle or two in that time period. My husband has a garden, but the birds destroy everything that he plants because it's the only green thing around.

We are so glad that we're moving to Iowa in May or June. Enough is enough.

--Mel
 

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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
 
Does anybody have any spare rain they wish to donate to Phoenix? We're now up to 102 days without measurable rainfall. That's a new record.

They say it'll be at least 2 more weeks without rain.
 

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Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
I was hoping I'd bring some with me, since Oregon has been having consecutive days of rain. But apparently, the rain decided not to follow me.
 

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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
 
This is going to make for a very nasty wildfire season.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
You can borrow part of Lake Superior if you want.

We're not using it.
 

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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
 
Lyrhawn, how soon can you get it here?
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
We recently had a record stretch of sunless days. Did wonders for the neighborhood with the already too-dim solar powered street lights.
 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Derrell, when I was doing a semester at ASU, it was over one hundred days. Do you know when the last record was? I was there in(um...)1985. I think.

I remember how depressed I would get, living in Phoenix, with sunshine day after day after day.

It sounds weird, but is true. I need rain.
 

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Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
 
That doesn't sound weird at all. I grew up in southern California, where the weather hardly ever stays the same for more than a few days at a time (or at least it was that way back then). Now I live in Fresno, where we can have days and days of fog in the winter without seeing the sun(I've known it to go for weeks at a time but not in the past few years), and always have months of sun and heat without relief in the summer. Even after all these years, I'm not used to having the weather be so uniform for so long, and it drives me crazy.
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
Yeah, the weather this winter has been a little hard for me to adjust to here in FL.


I was wearing shorts three weeks ago...around Christmas and New Years.
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 

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Originally posted by Elizabeth:
I remember how depressed I would get, living in Phoenix, with sunshine day after day after day.

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This is such a foreign concept that I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it.

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