Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . .

[jhetley]

We are under an "elevated fire risk" due to the drought. It's not just a west coast thing.

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[malkingrey]

I know that the drought is a real thing, but there's always a Texas-raised part of me that's going, "It isn't a real drought until all the grass is brown and the ground has cracks in it."

But it's all in what's normal, and normal here is a different thing.

(Last winter's snow pack sucked, even though the winter itself hung around for-freaking-ever.)

[dewline]

I've seen maps suggesting that at least a third of the continental US was already affected.

So...Maine now?

Québec too, likely.

[zeborah]

We've been having wildfires too. Not as big, thank goodness, but it's early spring here: one was stopped by snow (and the firefighters warned that the snow doesn't actually put it out, it's still smouldering under there). Climate change no longer respects the seasons.