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This is super hyperbolic - the higher up you go the more chance there is for there to be water. We had a low snow year so everything around public roads will be

This is super hyperbolic - the higher up you go the more chance there is for there to be water. We had a low snow year so everything around public roads will be drier. End of the summer lots of this stuff is dry anyways. Did you do any hikes that went up to higher elevations? Have you been through this area before to know what it typically looks like? I agree its a bad year but this is not becoming a desert anytime soon

katbyte 4y ago
End of summer? That’s still 2ish months away.. Here in the pnw I’m still waiting for the snowpack to melt in the alpine, 1m+ In places At around 1250m.
- Bilal_io 4y ago
  It really depends on where you are. The Oxford dictionary defines midsummer as June 27th. But looking at California temperature as an example, I would assume midsummer would be early July. But I am not a meteorologist nor a farmer. So it's safe to assume we're already in the second half of summer in most states.
  - Workaccount2 4y ago
    Midsummer is a holiday, not "middle of summer". Midsummer also happens at the beginning of summer.
  - katbyte 4y ago
    Summer is defined at June July August, we are officially just over half way with 50 days left and not close to the end of summer by any definition.
ghouse 4y ago
I just got back from a long hike in Rocky Mountain National Park outside of Estes Park, CO. Most of the hike was above treeline. We spotted a heard of elk and a local with whom I was hiking told me the elk were up there because the area had some late rain; normally that tundra is all brown by July. In the late 80s and early 90s I hiked that area every summer. I don't recall the tundra grass ever brown in July.
lambdasquirrel 4y ago
It's not that hyperbolic. I used to go up the 120 (i.e. Stanislaus) to go camping, then went on a long pause. When I returned after the previous multiyear drought, before the pandemic (so, around 2019), everywhere I drove half the trees were gone. To be clear, these weren't the touristy areas around Yosemite. I almost couldn't recognize it. It's been bad since. During the pandemic was when we had those reddish end-of-days skies because of all the wildfires. I'm scared to go back and see what there is now.

katbyte 4y ago

End of summer? That’s still 2ish months away.. Here in the pnw I’m still waiting for the snowpack to melt in the alpine, 1m+ In places At around 1250m.

Bilal_io 4y ago
It really depends on where you are. The Oxford dictionary defines midsummer as June 27th. But looking at California temperature as an example, I would assume midsummer would be early July. But I am not a meteorologist nor a farmer. So it's safe to assume we're already in the second half of summer in most states.
- Workaccount2 4y ago
  Midsummer is a holiday, not "middle of summer". Midsummer also happens at the beginning of summer.
- katbyte 4y ago
  Summer is defined at June July August, we are officially just over half way with 50 days left and not close to the end of summer by any definition.

ghouse 4y ago

I just got back from a long hike in Rocky Mountain National Park outside of Estes Park, CO. Most of the hike was above treeline. We spotted a heard of elk and a local with whom I was hiking told me the elk were up there because the area had some late rain; normally that tundra is all brown by July. In the late 80s and early 90s I hiked that area every summer. I don't recall the tundra grass ever brown in July.

lambdasquirrel 4y ago

It's not that hyperbolic. I used to go up the 120 (i.e. Stanislaus) to go camping, then went on a long pause. When I returned after the previous multiyear drought, before the pandemic (so, around 2019), everywhere I drove half the trees were gone. To be clear, these weren't the touristy areas around Yosemite. I almost couldn't recognize it. It's been bad since. During the pandemic was when we had those reddish end-of-days skies because of all the wildfires. I'm scared to go back and see what there is now.