Early in the year, I prepped the battlespace for what typically happens around New England. Everyone yells “drought” and “climate change!” But by year’s end, we have our average annual precip or more. This year has been wet. You could say there’s been a systemic lack of drought.
But drought is still a scary thing. It feeds the fear and false narratives upon which the Climate Cult props up its fraud.
Too much water has the same effect. Flooding. Massive flooding. Holy stormwater runoff Batman! It’s mostly hyperbolic nonsense, as is how the Cult peddles the transition from one to the other. Extreme weather. Climate chaos! It’s your fault! But what doesn’t prove global warming? Even normal is wrong because their faith is unassailable, and any refutation is sacrilegious. As for the lack of drought, you’ll have seen a lot of headlines about flooding, mostly in Vermont but in New Hampshire as well.
After a barely above-average month for precipitation in May, New Hampshire rocked the following month with the 14th wettest June on record. Not exceptional, but worthy of note. Vermont’s June 2023 was the seventeenth wettest, while July could be a record breaker. July has seen significant rainfall and flooding in both states, blowing the NOAA spring-summer prediction to high heaven (if such a thing exists for climate cultists).
But back to New Hampshire.
Five of the wettest Junes in New Hampshire have been since 1998, which aligns with the annual trends over the past 50 years. The Granite State has been wetter more often since 1969 than the 75 years of record prior.
CO2, if anything, has made the state wetter and greener (which naturally reduces CO2 if that concerns you), but we’re due for a change, sois one coming? Since 2005, annual totals have been above the 100-year average but declining since 2005.
Approaching the historical norm, as in normal. Not too much, not too little, not having anything to do with your lifestyle in either case.
Boring? Maybe, but we are at war with the left on these issues, and you, dear reader, wading through these sorts of articles, have more information than most when discussing the realities of climate.
Not always exciting but invaluable.
No hyperbolic venting required. Just point to the science.
