Dry February Expected to Continue (We’re Just Barely Above Record Set in 1923)

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Stock photo. [Sunrise 2008]

The National Weather Service noted today that we have had extremely low rainfall for the month of February. “[T]his February is evolving as one of the driest on record,” they wrote on their Area Forecast Discussion page. “Including yesterday`s rain…the total for this February is only a few hundredths above the 1923 record in Eureka of 0.50 inches.”

Not much rain is expected for the rest of the month either. “Mild and virtually rain free weather is expected for the remainder of this week,” the same page reports. “[F]orecast models are depicting some additional rain next weekend.” But all in all, expect little precipitation.

It’s worth noting that Humboldt County had its largest fire in over a year this last weekend. So please follow the terms of your permit. Have somebody in attendance and have water available.

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Fuck US all
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Fuck US all
4 years ago

Isn’t it EXCITING to be living during the death of the Earth?!?!!

All these millions of years, and WE ALL lucked out to be here during the end!

Flat girl
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Flat girl
4 years ago
Reply to  Fuck US all

It is.
Funny how everyone just LOVES this balmy weather til about July when they start running out of water and fire season gets rolling.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Flat girl

I can both enjoy the sun AND worry about the consequences later. In fact that is the normal human condition otherwise, if you let future issues spoil today’s joys, you’ll never be happy at all. Today I’ll weed while the soil is still soft and enjoy the sun.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
4 years ago
Reply to  Fuck US all

Billions of years (4.5+ is the accepted age of Earth) and she’ll be fine for many more. Many organisms have come and gone over those years and we may be just another turned to dust. Regardless, nobody gets out of here alive. So, enjoy the ride.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”

researcher
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researcher
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

you got your concepts confused. Nazism is not an ethos, it’s a system of moral destruction.

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

🕯🌳I’ll second. 👍🏽🐎☄🛸

Mike
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Mike
4 years ago

Does this mean the ocean is going to dry up?

Jaekelopterus
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Mike
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Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Oh my god! Should I run for the hills? Wait I live above 4 foot sea level what does that mean for me? I’ve heard this for 35 years since I was a kid, yet it hasn’t happened. And yet the politicians behind it keep buying property at sea level. So what, are they just really dumb and horrible at real estate investments?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago

Yeah this sucks.

Snow junkies are feeling it here.

LevelheadedGenXer
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LevelheadedGenXer
4 years ago

Thanks boomers

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago

🕯🌳No it started way before them.🐎🤯👍🏽

Guest
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Guest
4 years ago

For being able to type your complaint on a computer on the web? You’re welcome.

Ernie Branscomb
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Ernie Branscomb
4 years ago

1923 was the year that my mother was born. She loved to talk about all of the strange weather phenomenon. She said that she got to see the northern lights in Laytonville. She saw ball lightning follow a fenceline. She said that in the early 1930’s she saw ten mile creek completely freeze, top to bottom. She saw the snow so deep on the ridges that all the cattle and sheep died up there, and the houses and barns were crushed.

In 1933(?) she said that the summer was so hot that multiple fires started in the hills. Most all of the buildings at the Rancho El Primero burned. My grandmother and grandfather Branscomb were able to save their house by starting a backfire around their house.

In 1923 the weather in February was so dry that they were able to spade the winter garden to plant peas onions and garlic. My grandmother Ruby Branscomb said that she had never seen a February without what she called “the false spring”, and she was always able to get her winter garden planted.

Grandma Ruby was more accurate at predicting Laytonville weather than the weather forecasters. They didn’t know about the “doomsday weather”. They just thought that it was Mother Nature.

thetallone
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thetallone
4 years ago

Thanks for that

Dinky
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Dinky
4 years ago

Good ole Grandma Ruby. Thanks, Ernie.

Cool info
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Cool info
4 years ago

Love the oral history!! What a thing to see, snow taking out houses? Did the A-frame style exist back then or was it originated out of these types of events here? Anyone know?

The difference in these next 10-20 years is that those “anomalies” will become the norm, seasons of extremes both up&down. Its a pretty simple scientific model of what happens to the jet streams when the oceans warm and full of too much fresh water.

Ernie you made me think about how knowing the weather patterns locally enough to predict and knowing how to navigate by the stars are 2 of the saddest skills we’ve lost as a society. I have a friend who talks about her granddad being able to predict the weather down to a 5 minute window, especially with rain, like its gonna rain in 15 mins and within 10-20mins it was. I want to learn that! Sitting in the woods and just noticing sights sounds smells feelings. …there are no better ways to learn and its sad so many do not have that opportunity on the daily.

Hick
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Hick
4 years ago

N the Eighties, two weeks of high pressure in February, Clear warm days and cold nights was the norm. Just sayin.

crimestopper2
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crimestopper2
4 years ago

Great weather for bee hives to survive. Long live the bees!!

Ernie-great history quotes from you family members. That quality information isn’t in any books to read so it was a pleasure to read what you said.

Guss
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Guss
4 years ago

All the brush is dormant right now. That being said, you will have the lowest live fuel moistures of the year right about now. February has consistently had “false springs” over the years. This is not out of the norm. There are more folks in the hills burning and leaving piles unattended that are clueless about fire science. No doomsday scenario here. Just plain ignorance.

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago
Reply to  Guss

🕯🌳Your not from here,why are you chiming in?📡👁👁