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The Land Desk

Summer's over; and it was a dry one

Drought covers about 82% of the Western U.S.

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Sep 02, 2025
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🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

Summer’s officially over. Meteorological summer, that is. And damn what a dry and hot and smoky summer it was. It wasn’t one of those summers with superlative maximum temps: The mercury in Death Valley only climbed to 124 on a couple of occasions this summer, for example, far off the record high. But in most places the average t…

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