Comments on: What Defines a Drought?

By: Atlanta Drought Update

Atlanta Drought Update — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:02:17 +0000

[...] in 2009, Georgia’s state climatologist said that Atlanta was out of drought, but two years later, the Atlanta drought [...]

By: emily taff

emily taff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:42:40 +0000

that last quote is so on the mark. There’s a big stigma against “environmentalism,” that global warming is a myth and the treehuggers are crying wolf but… well, so what if they ARE? is going to kill you to conserve our resources? is it a bad thing to do good things for this world we live in?? so why not just make eco-conscious decisions anyway, whether or not there is or ever will be global warming, melting icecaps or droughts!!

By: A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:29:49 +0000

It’s actually very understandable: You barely eat anything daily for 15 days; you eat a big as sating meal on the sixteenth. There may be little to say that for the next week you’ll have enough to eat, but, for atleast a short period after that meal, it can be said that you’re not starving. For a shorter period it can even be said that you’re not even hungry.

By: codymc

codymc — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:41:37 +0000

I think the drought can technically be over, and our water woes still be in full swing. This article over at the AJC (same paper, same day as the one you linked too) does a little better context on Stooksbury’s stance. He also call’s Lanier the 800-pound gorilla – noting that it is still a problem.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2009/03/31/drought0331.html

Why I say the drought can be over and the water problem not is that GA relies on lakes for drinking water — but has no natural lakes. Hence they don’t fill naturally — there’s no natural occuring system that fills them as the areas around recover — their filling will be slower that the natural recovery from drought.

So this water problem, in my eye is a man made one — and thus the solution will have to be man made as well.

I don’t know if we got enough water in a week to change that graph, but it will be interesting to see when they update it. I do know that lanier rose nearly a foot and a half during that time.

http://water.sam.usace.army.mil/gage/acf/prob1.txt

By: Cate Ferguson

Cate Ferguson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:24:43 +0000

Living in Australia we have LONG droughts but people always think they are going to end. With all this climatic chaos around us these days, maybe we are going to have drought (or what we used to call drought) as “the norm” and wet years will be the odd joyful experience.

I’d plan for drought being the norm, the worst that can happen is you have lots of water stored for a non-rainy day!