Properly, this appears to be our new actuality. It might partly be as a result of uncommon climate is the one climate that makes it into the information, however it positive does appear that a lot of the world is now in a unending cycle of droughts punctuated by floods. Being a California boy, I carefully adopted that states historic multi-year drought, adopted instantly by final winter’s historic rains. And no sooner had my residence state pulled out of its drought, when my present residence entered into its worst summer time wet season in many years.
Our wet season right here ought to start someplace between mid-Could and Mid-June. It ought to then rain nearly every single day, till at the very least mid-October. And but, this yr, we had nearly no rain earlier than June twenty sixth. Issues picked up in July, sputtered a bit throughout August, after which the rains utterly stopped after the primary yr of September.
I’ve usually written about Lake Cuitzeo, the physique of water close to my metropolis of Morelia, which is, most years, Mexico’s second largest lake. In a considerably dry yr, the western half of Lake Cuitzeo dries up within the spring, simply earlier than our summer time rains. Two years in the past, the lake nearly utterly disappeared from December by the beginning of the Could rains. However this yr, 2023, the lake turned principally dry proper in the course of our supposed wet season. The photograph above this submit is of me, standing on the underside of what needs to be Lake Cuitzeo.