Arizona snow-measuring sites are bare

[spectr17]

Not looking good for the deer and elk.

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/...12600618201.txt

 

[jlostrander]

somebody do a rain dance! make it a good one and possibly this next system or two will send some water/snow down on northern arizone.

I am crossing my fingers.

Logan

 

[spectr17]

Summer-like fire restrictions in New Mexico, Arizona

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/...strip06.art.htm

 

[YORT40]

My buddy told me that last week @ the RMEF dinner in Reno, the AZ state Elk tag went for $135,000.00. I wonder if that dude is considering a refund. He should have checked his Farmers Almanac before throwing out that last C note.

 

[easymoney]

All those people that I know, who hunt AZ are not very happy. The last couple of years have been very bad, and the their water holes have been dry. The number of bucks seen has also dropped...

 

[wmidbrook]

NM was in good shape last season with strong/heavy spring rains....let's hope the same happens for AZ/NM region again this year.

NM and AZ also depend on summer rains for added antler growth.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

 

[Coues]

This is actually very predictable. The year after El Nino (La Nina?) is always very hot and dry.

If we don't get rain in March, we probably won't get any until late June at the very earliest (monsoon). The summer rains don't typically come till July though.

Game and Fish is already hauling water to dried up tanks. USFS has already put fire restrictions on much of the forest. That typically doesn't happen until around Memorial Day.

 

[paulc]

We are living it here in SE NM. No measurable rain/snow since Sept.

They were forcasting 1" for tomorow a couple of days ago now they are just forcasting .24". This has happened several times and then you get a couple drops or nothing at all.

With the winds you would need at least half an inch to make a difference. Very dry.

Praying for rain.

 

['Ike' @ HM]

Let's hope for a wet Spring!!!

 

[Coues]

2 feet of snow expected in Flagstaff today.

 

[wmidbrook]

Oh good, it's about time. I'd sure hate to spend my remaining years in some 100+ year drought like the two that've hit the west in the last couple thousand years...they've found trees 500' below the surface of Tahoe that were growing when things really, really had dried out in the West.

 

[dirtpoor]

just returned yesterday from NY , heavy rain/snow from Grants NM all the way to San Diego, barely made it out of Flagstaff before they closed I-40, hardly any snow on the moutains of Ariz/NM/Colorado shouldn't be any winterkill.

 

['Ike' @ HM]

About time and hopfully more to come.....Talked to a friend in Flagstaff, said it was

 

[paulc]

Still nothing in South East NM.

Praying for rain, snow, hail..... anything

 

['Ike']

Somebody needs to start.......