Weird weather hit cattle ranchers and citrus growers in 2022. Why it likely will get worse.

[libertybele]

I can't help but consider the idea that 'they' have the ability to create devastating weather and climate change. 

Weird weather hit cattle ranchers and citrus growers in 2022. Why it likely will get worse.

This has been a year of extreme weather,  including ruinous floods, horrific hurricanes, unrelenting heat, drought and massive rainfall events. Farmers, always at the mercy of the weather, have taken a hit.

In 2022, so far there have been over a dozen climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

While harvests in the U.S. overall have been good, some crops were devastated.

In Texas, the cotton harvest was hit hard by drought. Hurricane Ian blew oranges off the trees in Florida. Rice farmers in California have left fields empty for lack of water, and cattle ranchers are sending more cows to slaughter because drought-stunted pastures can't support normal calving activity.

Climate change can't be directly blamed for every bad harvest or extreme weather event this year, but the effects of climate change – including drought and rainier hurricanes – hurt harvests across the nation in 2022.  Climate models make clear more is coming.

It's a pattern scientists have been warning about for decades, that higher global temperatures will bring on "weather weirding."........

................Cattle in Texas

Look for beef prices to rise in 2023 and 2024 – in part because drought in Texas is forcing ranchers to send more cows to slaughter.

"There isn't enough grass to eat, and it's become too expensive to buy feed. We’ve had a large amount of culling this year because of drought," said David Anderson, a livestock specialist at Texas A&M University.

"We're sending young female heifer cows to feed lots because we don't have the grass to keep them," he said. Cows that would normally have a calf in the next few years are instead going to slaughter.

Beef slaughter is up 13% nationwide and in the Texas region, it's up 30%................

https://www.yahoo.com/news/beef-shortage-looms-florida-citrus-100040103.html

[Free Vulcan]

Ooo, aah, 'weird weather'. Global warming! Global warming! Global warming!

Someone needs to invent a term for this. 'Weird weather' has always been happening, but until the internet it's not been easy to find out about and catalog.

So now these Day Zero woke commies jump on every little event like this is the first time it's happened.

[libertybele]

Ooo, aah, 'weird weather'. Global warming! Global warming! Global warming!

Someone needs to invent a term for this. 'Weird weather' has always been happening, but until the internet it's not been easy to find out about and catalog.

So now these Day Zero woke commies jump on every little event like this is the first time it's happened.

Exactly.

A seven-year drought in the 1950s was the longest in Texas in modern history. The most recent and severe drought began in the fall of 2010 and lasted through winter 2014.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article260135445.html#storylink=cpy

[DB]

The sun has been going quiet. With that the northern hemisphere jetstream has become very unstable with wild pertibations going both sharply north and dipping south causing big swings in temperature over a short periods of time. This is what is expected to happen when the sun goes quiet.

[Idiot]

Exactly.

A seven-year drought in the 1950s was the longest in Texas in modern history. The most recent and severe drought began in the fall of 2010 and lasted through winter 2014.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article260135445.html#storylink=cpy

We normally receive 25 inches of rain every year, in northwest Texas, this year we've had 10 inches.  This is one of the worst droughts I've ever seen.  Friends are selling all of their cows, since there's not enough grass/hay for them to survive the winter, or water for that matter.  We've had to put off drilling projects due to lack of water as well.  The shallower projects we've done, we've had to haul in city water, which is very expensive.

[libertybele]

The sun has been going quiet. With that the northern hemisphere jetstream has become very unstable with wild pertibations going both sharply north and dipping south causing big swings in temperature over a short periods of time. This is what is expected to happen when the sun goes quiet.

Although from what I briefly read, the sun going quiet is cyclical as well.

[libertybele]

We normally receive 25 inches of rain every year, in northwest Texas, this year we've had 10 inches.  This is one of the worst droughts I've ever seen.  Friends are selling all of their cows, since there's not enough grass/hay for them to survive the winter, or water for that matter.  We've had to put off drilling projects due to lack of water as well.  The shallower projects we've done, we've had to haul in city water, which is very expensive.

I'm so sorry to hear that, hopefully this drought will end very soon.