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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Western US is a tinderbox waiting to explode after record heat and the worst drought in potentially 1,200 YEARS could spell disaster with threats of wildfires, water shortages and blackouts
2021-06-24
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Heat, drought, wildfires, dust storms have happened out West for many centuries now. The only new thing is a vast horde of migrants, legal and otherwise, who have in the last century packed themselves into a climate zone which is fundamentally at odds with with their long term occupation. Look at what happened in what is now Mesa Verde National Park.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-06-24 20:39  

#7  'Waiting', 'potentially', 'could', how many weasel words can they put in one headline?
Posted by: Cesare   2021-06-24 15:49  

#6  Recalling yesterday's Spiro Mounds demise due to drought.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-06-24 12:23  

#5  We are looking at normal to slightly below average temps this summer on the Space Coast. Was a bit drier than normal until last week. Not now...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-06-24 12:21  

#4  the temperature spike in Verkhoyansk will need to be investigated

other temperature sites did not record these extreme temperatures

e.g. this one
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-06-24 10:32  

#3  Its all those GUNS!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-06-24 09:42  

#2  Record-breaking heatwave with temperatures of 118F hits... SIBERIA
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-06-24 09:07  

#1  Air conditioning shortage ahead of hot summer causes nationwide price spike
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-06-24 09:05  

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