From: Tom Corrigan (thomas.corrigan@jhuapl.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 10:40:42 CST
A good site for monitoring drought conditions across the US is
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html
Not any help for Philmont, but the drought around here is certainly over.
(the snow is piled 15 feet high around the parking lots here).
Tom Corrigan
Troop 72
Glenwood, MD
Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 12:21:22 PM, you wrote:
JWK> I cannot comment on the conditions at Philmont, but a major storm did come
JWK> through the Southwest last week. A foot or more of snow fell in the Arizona
JWK> mountains. Several locations north of Phoenix recorded over 3 inches of
JWK> rain. That may not sound like much to some of you, but consider that last
JWK> year the total rainfall in Phoenix was 2.8 inches. That's for the whole
JWK> year. According to the Arizona Republic newspaper, "Yuma received nearly
JWK> six-tenths of an inch, 10 times as much as the city had received over the
JWK> past 30 months."
JWK> See:
JWK> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0214weather14-ON.html
JWK> The rain is welcome. It will take much more to relieve the drought, but if
JWK> this is an indication of things to come, things are looking up.
JWK> -- Jeff
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JWK> Jeffrey W. Knoll
JWK> SM, Troop 513
JWK> Grand Canyon Council
JWK> Phoenix, AZ
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