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Aridification? I thought the place started out as a desert.

by thghtihadanacct 4y ago

treeman79 4y ago
Ssshhh. You’ll expose the incompetence of our leaders at managing infrastructure.
smegsicle 4y ago
re-aridification
DowsingSpoon 4y ago
Well, you were wrong. Much of the area is California chaparral and woodlands, not deserts. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts are at the far South end of the state.
xvedejas 4y ago
It depends what your criteria are, but most of the LA basin would not be considered to have a "desert" climate, instead a Mediterranean climate. A good amount is intermediate and considered "semi-arid". To get to a proper desert climate, you do have to go just outside the urban area, over the mountains into the rain shadow where you'll find the Mojave desert. The border between "Mediterranean" and "Semi-Arid" is (according to Köppen) set by a threshold of precipitation based on potential evapotranspiration, which depends on things like average temperature. Once you have that threshold, precipitation at below 50% is considered "Desert", 50-100% is considered "Semi-Arid", and beyond would be other classifications (like Mediterranean in the LA case). Maybe this sounds arbitrary but it shows that most of LA gets at least double the rainfall that a desert would, according to the most common climate classification scheme.
- thghtihadanacct 4y ago
  My criteria is a lot different from even others in Cali. I live in a water exempt area because we doing it right ;) However, we just got enough fog this past year to keep our res full. We gonna be screwed soon and when we reach that point we will then build a giant desal ... which ive hated the idea but respect the necessity. Salty Halibut anyone?
pvaldes 4y ago
California has incredible fog forests also, home of the second tallest tree species registered in the planet. A desert would not have evolved giant slugs and arboreal salamanders. It was a much more humid place in the past, probably.
- thghtihadanacct 4y ago
  Except evidence says otherwise ... Atacama is a foggy desert too. Ive seen the salamanders, they aint climbing because there is a lot of water ... they climb because its night and cold and food up the tree. Sadly, they will prob perish. If you live around there, find a tree and spray it with some water brought down from NorCal.
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Aridification? I thought the place started out as a desert.

treeman79 4y ago

Ssshhh. You’ll expose the incompetence of our leaders at managing infrastructure.

smegsicle 4y ago

re-aridification

DowsingSpoon 4y ago

Well, you were wrong. Much of the area is California chaparral and woodlands, not deserts. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts are at the far South end of the state.

xvedejas 4y ago

It depends what your criteria are, but most of the LA basin would not be considered to have a "desert" climate, instead a Mediterranean climate. A good amount is intermediate and considered "semi-arid". To get to a proper desert climate, you do have to go just outside the urban area, over the mountains into the rain shadow where you'll find the Mojave desert. The border between "Mediterranean" and "Semi-Arid" is (according to Köppen) set by a threshold of precipitation based on potential evapotranspiration, which depends on things like average temperature. Once you have that threshold, precipitation at below 50% is considered "Desert", 50-100% is considered "Semi-Arid", and beyond would be other classifications (like Mediterranean in the LA case). Maybe this sounds arbitrary but it shows that most of LA gets at least double the rainfall that a desert would, according to the most common climate classification scheme.

thghtihadanacct 4y ago
My criteria is a lot different from even others in Cali. I live in a water exempt area because we doing it right ;) However, we just got enough fog this past year to keep our res full. We gonna be screwed soon and when we reach that point we will then build a giant desal ... which ive hated the idea but respect the necessity. Salty Halibut anyone?

pvaldes 4y ago

California has incredible fog forests also, home of the second tallest tree species registered in the planet. A desert would not have evolved giant slugs and arboreal salamanders. It was a much more humid place in the past, probably.

thghtihadanacct 4y ago
Except evidence says otherwise ... Atacama is a foggy desert too. Ive seen the salamanders, they aint climbing because there is a lot of water ... they climb because its night and cold and food up the tree. Sadly, they will prob perish. If you live around there, find a tree and spray it with some water brought down from NorCal.

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