Talk:2012–2013 North American drought

Add section on Canada
As it is, it seems like this is an article about the US with one mention of Canada. The drought is affecting Ontario too. Another article here ->
 * By all means, add this info. The drought is affecting the US, Canada, AND Mexico. All I can really gather on the matter is to look at the very slow-to-update and infrequent North American Drought Monitor for impacts outside the US. Once again, PLEASE, by all means add any new information you have for these areas. --Bowser the Storm Tracker  Chat Me Up 04:01, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There was a map on CBC News showing the affected areas in Canada. I believe it was from Environment Canada. Is this public domain? Can it be included in the article?TurtleMelody (talk) 20:15, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

For context, but labelled Opinion, add or not?
It has a nice chart which shows deviation in annual rainfall levels beginning in 137 BC (21 centuries), from Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, University of Tennessee, "A 2,129-Year Reconstruction of Precipitation for Northwestern New Mexico, USA," 1996; David M. Anderson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. 108.195.136.231 (talk) 05:41, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * OPINION; Hundred-Year Forecast: Drought'' published August 11, 2012 in The New York Times
 * Well that image is copyrighted, so you can't just add it. Inks.LWC (talk) 07:11, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Hunt for the cites
I agree with the editor, who added the need citation tags. I am working on the hunt for the cites. Please, would another editor take a look at what I add as cites and then we can discuss to get consensus. Thanks. Geraldshields11 (talk) 12:59, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I found an article by University of Massachusetts Lowell about the metrological issues section.


 * Please discuss. Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:47, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Maps and dates needs updating
Map needs updating since significant changes have occurred in the drought intensity and coverage. Stormchaser89 (talk) 10:04, 26 September 2012 (US Central)

Also, in the second paragraph it says the drought peaked July 17. But it doesn't indicate what year. I'm guessing 2012. However, more current articles indicate 2014 is the worst (and the worst is yet to come).

Propose rename and merge
This article now says the 2012 NA drought is an expansion of the 2010-2012 Souther US drought..... we should rename this article Drought in North America (Current) and we should merge 2010–2012 Southern United States drought into this one. Comments? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose - How are you going to maintain (Current) on Wikipedia continually?  The title suggestion also appears to have a different meaning than the two you suggest eliminating.  216.250.156.66 (talk) 22:48, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The same way we maintain Current sea level rise, a subject for which we do NOT have one article for Sea level rise in 2010-2012 and another for Sea level rise in 2012; Also since you are a blocked IP sock puppet it beats me why you expect editors to put a lot of weight on your opinions. Whenever any of these phenomena cease then the article can get an appropriate name.  As it is the drought is projected to continue to next year so there is right now an ongoing naming problem; this proposal makes it easier instead of harder to maintain since we would only have to adjust the time part of the article title ONCE instead of annually (for however long is needed) and we would have just one article to deal with this single subject. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:31, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * oppose - the current sea level rise is a long term ongoing phenomena expected to keep going for a very long time, decades in fact. the "current" drought is a random event "short term" event and expected to terminate "shortly". -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  23:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Please explain the reason you are opposed.... what you provided is merely critical of the analogy in my response to the prior editor, and does not address the proposal to merge 2010–2012 Southern United States drought and 2012 North American drought, where the latter says it is an extension of the former. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It would be cleaner if one were made for each year.  The "present" is continually changing, making the article unmaintainable. 64.109.54.142 (talk) 23:24, 5 December 2012 (UTC
 * You already expressed your opinion before your other sock account was blocked. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:34, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

The 2012-13 drought is not the same as the 2010-11 drought. In fact, though it gre initially from the 2010-11 drought, at the height (so far) of the 2012-13 drought, many of the southern areas where the 2010-11 drought had taken place were significantly relieved. The only reason to create ANOTHER article would be if the entire drought shifted, relieving the great plains, west, and midwest almost completely. However, The southeast drought and the overall 2012-2013 North American droughts are distinct. Watch the 52-week CONUS archive animation from the US Drought Monitor if you don't believe me. --Bowser the Storm Tracker Chat Me Up 19:05, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

When did it start
I'm no grammar expert, but the opening sentance leads me to believe that the 2010-2012 drought started in 2010. I know it's poor construction, I just can't say why. Punctuation? Gimelgort 21:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gimelgort (talk • contribs)

I see your point. The NOAA Drought Task Force has a report dedicated to understanding and explaining the origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought: cite http://drought.gov/media/pgfiles/2012-Drought-Interpretation-final.web-041013_V4.0.pdf. According to this, the drought that began in the Great Plains in 2012 was a separate event from the previous year's Southern Plains drought, and was a short-term drought. There should be a distinction between the long-term drought (i.e. lasting 2010 - 2012) and the short-term droughts (i.e. only lasting for a season). comment added by Kaev64 23:50, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Extreme drought.
Before the table of contents, the word "drought" appears 29 times (20 without the picture). Someone who cares about this page may want to consider the risk of semantic satiation. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Flora and Fauna
Can somebody tell me about concrete effects the drought has on the flora and fauna especially in California? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.214.238.210 (talk) 17:33, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

"2012–16 North American drought"
Per http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ change to 2012–16 North American drought ?

Requested move 25 June 2016

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The result of the move request was: moved to 2012–13 North American drought. I agree that the California drought should be split, but a) I'm not sure how that should be done and b) what the name of that article would be. For now, I'll add a split tag to the article, and if someone is motivated and knowledgeable enough, they can do the work. -- Tavix ( talk ) 21:25, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

2012–15 North American drought → North American drought (2012–present) – Drought continues (without an obvious end) particularly in the the American Southwest, notably in California, see Climate change in California 69.58.42.90 (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2016 (UTC) 69.58.42.90 (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2016 (UTC) --Relisting.  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2016 (UTC)  --Relisting.   Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   11:54, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Oppose: To tell you the truth, I don't like the name of the article, "2012-15 North American drought", even now. I think that the article should be named "2012-13 North American drought". I would like that name better because I think we would call a drought "a North American drought" only if it affects a large part of North America, and much of that big American drought that the introduction part of this article talked about had mostly ended in 2013 with heavy rains. Only the California and Texas droughts remained, and the Texas drought ended in 2015. Also the main focus of that article is that large drought, not the California drought. The California drought is just a side note. Lastly, for local droughts such as the California drought, I believe a separate page should be created, but that is a different issue that I will raise later. Thanks, 73.223.175.207 (talk) 07:34, 6 July 2016 (UTC).


 * Oppose and concur with split idea introduced by the anon; the California drought (in which I live ...) is not really the same topic.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  20:08, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: There's been very little discussion since your relisting, so what do you think ? I've relisted it for a second time and hopefully the last  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   11:54, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi I think there might be a consensus to move to 2012–13 North American drought here. Admittedly there's not much discussion, as you say, but two commenters have made the reasonable point that the core part of the drought, on a North America wide basis, ended in 2013 and that the ongoing droughts in California etc can be handled in separate articles. I would be tempted to close with that move myself, but you may think differently. Thanks  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:37, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no opinion on where this article ends up, but just a quick question, why would an article about the drought in 2012-2015 be moved to a title that only contains 2012-2013? I'd say either let the final relisting run its course or move it to where the IP proposed.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   13:41, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well have you read the comment by 73.223.175.207 above? They state that the "North American" component of this drought ended in 2013, and the article text confirms that because it says "Beginning in March 2013, improved rainfall across the Midwest, southern Mississippi Valley, and Great Plains began gradually alleviating drought in these areas". To me that's a reasonable explanation - the continent wide drought that was the original subject of this article, beginning in 2012, in fact was not ongoing in 2015, it is a far more localised drought now. SMcCandlish's comment also says "concur with split" which I believe refers to the same proposal, to leave this article about the continent wide drought that ended in 2013, while splitting off details of the Calif drought into a new article. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:51, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


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article previously name "2012–15 North American drought", now this Talk's article called "2012–13" ?
Why was the title of this article changed from "2012–15 North American drought" (found via link on "2010–13 Southern United States and Mexico drought" article)? This article has information on 2015, see article page called "2012–13 North American drought" and note this links to article Talk called "2012–15 North American drought" (this page). WTF? X1\ (talk) 23:40, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 19 July 2018

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Not moved. This is a request to move this article to a title with an incorrect date range, as noted below in the discussion. This article was originally titled "2012 North American drought" and was retitled in 2013 to "2012–13 North American drought". Move logs show further stretching of the date range in 2014 and 2015. Then came the 2016 requested move that resulted in the title being returned to its 2013 name, its present name. Below there is no reason given that would include the entire North American continent nor even a large part of it, but just that in small parts of the continent, such as California, Mexico and the southern US, the drought continued. Those small areas do not constitute the greater part of the continent, in which the drought did not extend past 2013. So the 2016 page move should not be overturned. Have a Great Day and Happy Publishing! (nac by page mover)  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there  14:52, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

2012–13 North American drought → 2012–15 North American drought – See above X1\ (talk) 00:44, 19 July 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 00:37, 26 July 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 21:56, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I have reunited the talk page with the article. Is that all that you wanted, or do you want to argue that the article should be at 2012–15 North American drought? The current title is the result of a previous move request. Dekimasu よ! 01:35, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * While the Talk and article ought to be "reunited", I never asked to change the Talk page. See above, 2012–15 North American drought is what the article was (rightly) called.
 * After that is "reunited", then other dates will need to be "argued".


 * Comment - per Wikipedia's guidelines (like on MOS:DATERANGE), the suggested title should presumably be "2012–2015 North American drought", with the full year written out. Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:05, 19 July 2018 (UTC)


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2010-2017 ?
Since 2010–13 Southern United States and Mexico drought includes U.S. "North America" and 2011–17 California drought is in "North America" wouldn't this be the 2010–17 North American drought? X1\ (talk) 22:04, 23 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I know you posted this question and a previous one a long time ago, but the reason this page is called "2012-13 North American drought" is that for a drought to be called a "North American" drought it has to affect a majority of the United States. The period of drought in Texas from 2010 to 2011 and the period of drought in California from 2014 to 2017 were notable, yet during those years the droughts were only constrained to Texas and California. Yet, from 2012-13, the drought was not just constrained to particular states and had expanded so greatly throughout North America, with 64% of the contiguous U.S. in moderate drought, comparable to the Dust Bowl. Hence it is called a "2012-13 North American drought". Regards, EagerBeaverPJ (talk) 10:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, July 2018 does seem very long ago, . I understand your comment but it still seems confusing in the article.  These kind of topics are difficult to circumscribe, as the atmosphere not only knows no political border, it is constantly moving around in varying qualities.  X1\ (talk) 10:22, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

merge?
should not 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought be merged in with this article? -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:41, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

rename to 2012–14 North American drought or rename as the 2012–15 North American drought
The page itself says the drought went longer across some states/regions within North America or the United States than others. Can we have the drought page changed back to either of these names above? Angela Kate Maureen (talk) 21:44, 5 January 2022 (UTC)