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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Well it is / was a prediction - it has receded now - less purple.
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That's called weather :-) The purple will be back.
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If you had taken some time to research it you would note that the same people predicted permanent droughts a few years ago...
...just before loads of floods and overloaded dams and people drowning or being bitten by poisonous snakes or attacked by crocks in their own homes.
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If you've ever lived in an arid climate, you'd know that floods and droughts are not mutually exclusive:
Floods in Driest State
In fact, around here (east slope of the Sierra Nevada) floods can cause droughts. River runoff and ground water depend primarily on the mountain snowpack. Get a series of warm storms (AKA "Pineapple Express") and you have rain at high elevations melting the snowpack. Since the ground is frozen, it all runs off, causing a flood. Then because the snowpack all melted, in the summer you have a drought.