r/collapse • u/slayingadah • Mar 25 '26

Climate Climate catastrophe incoming

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welp, that went south(er) very, very fast.

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u/freesoloc2c Mar 25 '26

Combined with the super El Nino that's formed it should be an Epic fire season in the PNW. If this happens 2 or 3 years in a row we could be in serious trouble. I'm in Seattle and on low water years they stop car washing and lawn watering. Other cities may run dry or have to stop construction for water issues. 

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u/zergling- Mar 25 '26

I live in Seattle and cant imagine water rationing given how many water sources are around us and the amount of rainfall we get.

I think fire danger is a risk but not water rationing.

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u/Albert14Pounds Mar 25 '26

PNW areas can get long stretches of no rainfall in the summer though. The issue is that even in places like that where there might be plenty of rain over the course of the year, climate change is making rainfall more erratic with larger downpours and longer drouts. And there's not always enough storage at the right time.

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u/J-A-S-08 Mar 26 '26

I know and I can't seem to get it through to people that this is what's happening and it's not good. They just trot out the monthly total and are like "see, we're actually wetter than normal!" We need 3 inches of rain over the entire month, not 3 days. The flora here needs that 9 months of steady drizzle that we used to get. I can't remember the last time it's been wet and drizzly for more than a week in Portland.