{"id":24767,"date":"2011-09-15T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=24767"},"modified":"2011-09-15T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T22:33:49","slug":"wild-weather-oklahoma-severe-drought-virginia-downpour-off-the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/wild-weather-oklahoma-severe-drought-virginia-downpour-off-the-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Weather — Oklahoma in Severe Drought Now & Virginia Downpour "Off the Charts""},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from the Northeast’s unprecedented hurricane\/tropical storm, Irene<\/a>, as well as the record-setting, unprecedented drought<\/a>, heat<\/a>, and fires in Texas<\/a>\u00a0and the wildfires in Arizona<\/a>, many more regions have been getting slammed with extreme, wild weather and natural disasters recently. Two more examples are Oklahoma<\/a> and Virginia.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma Drought<\/h3>\n

“As drought struck Oklahoma this summer, Gov. Mary Fallin (R-OK) told Oklahomans to pray for rain, instead of acting to fight climate pollution or strengthen climate resilience. Two months after Fallin called for\u00a0statewide prayer<\/a>, Oklahoma\u2019s drought is now worse,” \u00a0Think Progress reports. “[Last] week,\u00a0100 percent of the state [was] in severe drought<\/a>, with over two-thirds of the state in exceptional drought, caused in part by the global warming pollution she denies is a threat<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Virginia Downpour Off the Charts, More than a 1,000-year Weather Event<\/h3>\n

As part of a broader post on extreme weather<\/a>,\u00a0Capital Weather Gang Chief Meteorologist\u00a0Jason Samenow wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

“On Thursday, September 8, Ft. Belvoir received\u00a0an\u00a0astounding 7.03\u201d of rain in three hours<\/strong><\/a>. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), that amount of rain in that amount of time was an ‘off the charts above a 1000-year rainfall (based on precip frequency from Quantico).'”<\/p>\n

Warning: make no connections between these extreme weather events and global warming<\/a> or climate change<\/a>:<\/p>\n