You took a discussion about the upcoming pattern and turned it into a call for action for me personally. I am not freaking out properly! Its this shrill crap people are repulsed by and why we are where are right now.

Is there seriously no rain in the extended forecast? This is depressing.

Excuse me how did I make this political? Most people care about what's going to happen to our loved ones when we die, even if we can't individually control the outcome. Head in sand is one option - and arguably better for one's individual mental health. But that comes at the cost of being flippant and making comments like "we can't control the weather" on a weather forum.

This is looking like it will be a terrible summer. Tree's are growing, things are blooming, but I am already seeing people's yards begin to turn yellow. I've never seen that this early. We are still just in early spring. This is nuts.

I went to the river a little while ago, levels already look like late july. peak flow has already passed in April about 6 weeks early. not good and with parts of the river running dry last fall its definitely a bad situation