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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1491826245566275585 Gonna open myself up to ridicule and ask why California is always so dry when it's right on the ocean. Yeah obviously you can't water crops with seawater, but wouldn't weather patterns over a large body of water move some moisture over the state? Or does that all get pushed north to OR/WA?
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Feb 10, 2022 19:29
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C-Euro posted:Gonna open myself up to ridicule and ask why California is always so dry when it's right on the ocean. California is really big and does get a lot of rain in parts of it. Parts of California are also part of one of the hottest deserts on the planet. In short, California is a land of contrasts.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:32
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https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1491827050398765064
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Feb 10, 2022 19:34
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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1491839227843203075 I can't decide whether this is a lot or a little. The protected 2027 (?) first round pick is a long haul. I think I'd feel a little bad for the Nets after they finally got exciting for a bit last year if I were able to feel anything for the Nets.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:40
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funny how CA finally gets around to this after Tesla moves its HQ to Texas. wonder what was stopping them before?
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Feb 10, 2022 19:40
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There's also a kinda-joke about SoCal stealing all the water from NorCal. Meanwhile I'm snacking on California-grown almonds, which are notorious for being a very water-hungry crops
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Feb 10, 2022 19:41
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C-Euro posted:Gonna open myself up to ridicule and ask why California is always so dry when it's right on the ocean. The airflow coming from the ocean onto shore hits a coastal range that extends most of the state; that's where a lot of the moisture gets dumped. Only when the jet stream (that normally runs up into oregon/washington/canada) plows straight across the width of the state, does a lot of moisture make it to the sierra nevada and get dumped as snow. Our seasonal snowpack melting in the spring feeds our reservoirs. Frequently we develop a zone of high pressure sitting over the central valley. This forces the jet stream to flow north, well off coast, and robs us of moisture coming from the ocean. The coastal communities can still get fog daily during the summer, but this doesn't result in significant water in the ground anywhere else. California consequently has a medeterranean type climate. Mild winters, intermittent precip in the winter and spring, long hot dry summers and autumns. Due to climate change, we are having more and more dry years where precip doesn't start until late, we go for weeks between rainfall even in the winter, spring highs are higher and drier, and summers are longer and hotter. This year, supposedly a "la nina" year, we had heavier than normal rainfall in December. But we've had a totally dry January and that's led to a mini fire season. We're still hopeful for more spring rain. If we don't get it, we'll remain in a severe drought statewide. e. https://www.drought.gov/states/california We're currently still in "severe" drought category: we've been in the "Exceptional" category in most inland counties for years, and will likely be back into "Exceptional" this year; if we're lucky with spring rain, we might drop down to "extreme" and "severe" in most inland counties. IMO we will never see a single year below "moderate drought" again in the next few centuries. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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Feb 10, 2022 19:44
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Give us your freaking water, bay area
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Feb 10, 2022 19:46
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Gravity Falls owns so gosh darn much Wendy Corduroy is who I wish I was.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:48
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Android Apocalypse posted:Disney seems to have found it's rut in terms of quality, first off with the MCU and now with Star Wars. I've heard good things about Encanto
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Feb 10, 2022 19:52
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C-Euro posted:Gonna open myself up to ridicule and ask why California is always so dry when it's right on the ocean. The Pacific current along the coast runs from north to south, making it a cold current, bringing cooler water from Alaska down the coast (as opposed to the Gulf Stream current on the Gulf coast and east coast that brings warmer water northward). This cold current makes the immediate coast very stable, and that stability reduces rain chances. Areas further north sometimes are affected by a jet streak (called "atmospheric river" or "pineapple express") that brings high moisture in and overwhelms the stabilization from the cold current, but that jet very rarely makes it down to central and southern California.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:54
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a neat cape posted:Give us your freaking water, bay area STOP WATERING YOUR LAWNS WITH IT! YOU'RE IN A DESERT ACCEPT IT WE NEED IT SO THIS GUY CAN SNACK Android Apocalypse posted:Meanwhile I'm snacking on California-grown almonds, which are notorious for being a very water-hungry crops
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Feb 10, 2022 19:59
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the south african emerald mine guy? nahhhhhhh Man, I hope I never have occasion to be burned this beautifully by a former teacher https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/1491845449287970819
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Feb 10, 2022 20:01
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Its Rinaldo posted:I've heard good things about Encanto It's fine. My girls love it. I think I have Lin-Manuel Miranda burnout but We Don't Talk About Bruno is a jam.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:01
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Spoeank posted:STOP WATERING YOUR LAWNS WITH IT! YOU'RE IN A DESERT ACCEPT IT WE NEED IT SO THIS GUY CAN SNACK IM ALSO EATING ALMONDS AND DONT HAVE A LAWN SO THERE
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Feb 10, 2022 20:12
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C-Euro posted:"Don't post anything that you wouldn't want your wife to see" is a personal rule of mine on SA (and other posting places I guess), though granted she has a fairly high tolerance for my nonsense. I’m sad that I’ve posted some bad things in the past. And I get even sadder when I think about the younger generations who have spent their lives online. Nobody should know what anybody else did when they were middle or high schoolers.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:13
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a neat cape posted:IM ALSO EATING ALMONDS AND DONT HAVE A LAWN SO THERE each individual almond uses 12 liters of fresh irrigation water if we scrapped half our almond and pistachio production for the state, that would basically solve all our water issues lol (not really, because the farmland would be used for growing something else, and water isn't uniformly distributed, and a lot of the orchard water is being pulled from ancient aquifers rather than from our surface water, etc. but still the point stands that our cash crop for export is california's #1 water problem by a giant margin)
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Feb 10, 2022 20:19
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CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL
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Feb 10, 2022 20:20
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You want us to STOP GROWING FOOD!?!?!?!?! YOU IGNORANT CITY FOLKS ALWAYS TRYNA DESTROY YOUR OWN FOOD SOURCE????? this sign erected by FoodCo Global Conglomerate Inc., a Fortune 500 leader in innovative biopharmatech agrichemical devastation
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Feb 10, 2022 20:22
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Every time you eat an almond, a California kitty dies.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:22
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Here's a fun fact: agriculture is less than 3% of California's GDP.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:22
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Leperflesh posted:Here's a fun fact: agriculture is less than 3% of California's GDP. I grew up in a family business that was ag-adjacent. The last 30 years have been wild
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Feb 10, 2022 20:24
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Here’s my California lawn  Thinking about planting clover since I don’t think grass will fair well up here at 7500 feet. I should rake now that our one snowfall this season has melted.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:27
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I have a courtyard with a tree. Condo life
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Feb 10, 2022 20:28
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yeah it's also just like: california makes so much loving money from high tech, biotech, banking and financial services, and even light and medium industry, it just absolutely dwarfs the agricultural industry in terms of gross revenues, even though we're also 13% of the US's total agriculture revenue. We produce two thirds of the country's fruit and nuts.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:31
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Leperflesh posted:yeah Driving from Palm Springs to El Centro as a kid and just seeing the endless grape fields and lettuce and carrot fields were wild
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Feb 10, 2022 20:32
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a sexual elk posted:Here’s my California lawn Plant native plants! My "lawn" is whatever grows without any watering, usually a patch of grassy weeds every winter that I diligently mow. I let it die in the summer. But our plan is to completely replace the front yard's landscaping with 100% natives, which should be well adapted to the local climate and will also attract native birds and butterflies and so on. For you, there are high-alpine native grasses and plants that will do great. Clover isn't a terrible option mind you, it attracts bees and looks nice and so on. I'll note that if you go to a plant nursery and look in their "natives" section it'll be plants from all over California; you'll have to actually do your own research to find out which are your genuinely local natives, but there's tons of native landscaping groups and stuff around so there's plenty of help for that.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:33
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My local plants are rocks
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Feb 10, 2022 20:35
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a sexual elk posted:My local plants are rocks 7500 is above the treeline? It's typically above 8k feet, but I suppose it's variable. Even within the subalpine and alpine zones, there's natives you can plant though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plants_of_the_Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)#Subalpine_Zone sedges, bunchgrasses, monkeyflower, etc. would make a lovely garden
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Feb 10, 2022 20:38
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Leperflesh posted:it's also just like: california makes so much loving money from high tech, biotech, banking and financial services, and even light and medium industry, it just absolutely dwarfs the agricultural industry in terms of gross revenues, even though we're also 13% of the US's total agriculture revenue. We produce two thirds of the country's fruit and nuts. Now listen here I'm going to learn you about soybean production mister. (We get a whole lot of soybean and how to grow soybean commercials during college football season on the radio around here. I don't actually know anything about it but it's enough to be worth advertising I guess?) Looking it up it does seem to be mostly a midwest thing in the states.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:39
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Its Rinaldo posted:I've heard good things about Encanto It's pretty good, honestly. Silly Burrito posted:Every time you eat an almond, a California kitty dies. poo poo, I'm all out of almonds.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:39
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Doesn't So Cal get most of its water from the Colorado river still? That river is actually a lot closer to southern california than northern california. I'm sure there's some movement of water between the two areas, but still.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:40
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I’m up in big bear lotta native stuff, but want something that doesn’t grow tall, is low maintenance and that the dog won’t get sick eating. Plus cheap really cheap.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:48
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a sexual elk posted:I’m up in big bear lotta native stuff, but want something that doesn’t grow tall, is low maintenance and that the dog won’t get sick eating. Plus cheap really cheap. ehhh I'm gonna be up there next weekend for five days! still hasn't snowed since loving New Years, huh
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Feb 10, 2022 20:54
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My lawn is ugly and toasted from like July-November and then covered in snow until April so I don’t really give a gently caress. My retired neighbor across the street spends a lot of time and energy and water on his lawn every week but by the time August rolls around both of ours look the same-brown and crispy.
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Feb 10, 2022 20:54
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Play posted:ehhh I'm gonna be up there next weekend for five days!  Gonna be slushy wet snow if anything
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Feb 10, 2022 20:56
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a sexual elk posted:
I mean the weekend after this next one, but yeah I know. I've been waiting for it to snow since it was fantastic around Christmas and New Years. But I can't wait forever ffs, I have a season pass and a free cabin to use up there and I gotta use it even if the snow sucks rear end.
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Feb 10, 2022 21:17
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a sexual elk posted:I’m up in big bear lotta native stuff, but want something that doesn’t grow tall, is low maintenance and that the dog won’t get sick eating. Plus cheap really cheap. Yeah I'm not an expert so I have no idea what is nondogtoxic and also what would be cheap up there. Low maintenance is like one of the hallmarks of native gardening though. Actually it's almost impossible to find something as high loving maintenance as a patch of trimmed green european grass grown in our not-England environment. Clover hits all your marks of course so it's not a terrible plan anyway.
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a sexual elk posted:I’m up in big bear lotta native stuff, but want something that doesn’t grow tall, is low maintenance and that the dog won’t get sick eating. Plus cheap really cheap. If you're in like a gardening store looking at plants just googling "[plant name] dog" will almost always have the first result telling you if it's safe for dogs. Or at least it works that way with "[plant name] cats"
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