temps 30 may:
hi 79/ norm 81 lo 57/ norm 58, and highest level ever recorded at local reservoir flood warning til 6/3 (!), and largest tornado ever recorded in douglas co. – smashed buildings crumpled cars – 32 miles’ of it (part of record 12th day w/≧ 8 tornadoes in u.s.; 225 since 5/17; cannot be definitively attributed to climate change) but “the angst on farmer twitter is palpable”: just 58% of corn crop in the ground (v. 5-year average of 90%) 29% of the soybean crop (compared to 66). global grain prices going ↑; & levees breaching, ok., ar.; wettest may in kansas city; wettest 12 months u.s. (after 4 yrs record heat, drought); (lots of hottest, coldest, wettest mays out there) but beautiful here yesterday, today. whatev: don’t depend on fortune’s “gifts”: 62k paraguayans still displaced; water won’t recede til mid-june; & more flash floods, mudslides, bridges out in s. mexico & “northern triangle,” whence everybody’s trying to get away. . . (“it could cause people to migrate and if you can’t migrate, it might cause conflict as people will need to fight with their neighbours for food”). meanwhile prayagraj (Allahabad) [india] highest maximum ever that is 48.6 c (120 f) dry hot winds 10k evac’d from alberta wildfires – 180k hectares life burning off; & alberta farms income ↓ 68% in 2018 (weather) s.e. alaska xtreme drought; u.k. reservoir levels sink; shortage of seed corn in sweden from last year’s drought; s. queensland coldest may morning on record after that hottest of summers; & perth may rain: 17.8mm/ norm: 89.4mm so they are dry seeding this is how you survive in the aftermath if you are a displaced person in the united states (vs. say mozambique needs $3.2 b) (as you can see i have so much to tell you that you don’t want to hear, that starts to make this seem like a trivial pursuit like a stinking catalog of sinking ships)
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |