☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to US News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 18 hours agoNew York City officials have urged city residents to conserve "every drop" of water amid record-breaking drought in Octoberwww.nyc.govexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkNew York City officials have urged city residents to conserve "every drop" of water amid record-breaking drought in Octoberwww.nyc.gov☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to US News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-square-6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 hours agoWhen did NYC start having droughts? I lived there 2 years and never heard of this lmao
minus-squareEmDash@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 hours agoNew Jersey just had a record dry September and October: https://www.northjersey.com/story/weather/2024/11/01/2024-nj-driest-september-october-recorded-history-rain/75992861007/ Plenty of places had no measurable rainfall.
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoNYC water supply is an hour north in Westchester and 2 hours north in the Catskills. They don’t drink ground water from their locale.
minus-squareafters [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 hours agocrazy flooding the past 3 years and now this is nuts
minus-squareRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 hours agoI guess we can scrap the plans for that sea wall!
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 hours agoWater water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
minus-squareMarxMadness@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 hours agoI think Philadelphia is in the middle of a notably long time (possibly a record) without rain, too.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 hours agoI get the impression people tend to underestimate just how bad climate change is going to be for the global north in the coming years.
When did NYC start having droughts? I lived there 2 years and never heard of this lmao
New Jersey just had a record dry September and October: https://www.northjersey.com/story/weather/2024/11/01/2024-nj-driest-september-october-recorded-history-rain/75992861007/
Plenty of places had no measurable rainfall.
NYC water supply is an hour north in Westchester and 2 hours north in the Catskills. They don’t drink ground water from their locale.
crazy flooding the past 3 years and now this is nuts
I guess we can scrap the plans for that sea wall!
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
welcome to the new normal
I think Philadelphia is in the middle of a notably long time (possibly a record) without rain, too.
I get the impression people tend to underestimate just how bad climate change is going to be for the global north in the coming years.