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The article doesn’t talk about it, but is this also a result of climate change?
by k_sze 7y ago
The article doesn’t talk about it, but is this also a result of climate change?
- joncrane 7y agoI believe that Western Washington is indeed experiencing less rainfall lately.
- reaperducer 7y agoI believe that Western Washington is indeed experiencing less rainfall lately. The local news report that The Guardian lifted its article from was from KAPP-TV, which is in Yakima. Yakima is considered eastern Washington, not west. It is on the dry side of the state where there are farms and desert.
- floren 7y agoSR-240 is firmly on the east side of the state, which is naturally a desert. The road runs through the Hanford site, so there's no agriculture on either side, just sagebrush and tumbleweeds (and elk).
- poulsbohemian 7y agoLifelong Washingtonian here, currently living about an hour from these tumbleweeds... this year has been dry (saw something about 50% less rainfall / snowfall than typical for this time of year...) but tumbleweeds like this are not really that unusual. One of my very earliest memories was being caught in a storm just like this one, just before xmas when I was about two. Much of eastern Washington is scrub, where if it can be irrigated, turns into excellent agricultural land.