{"id":27895,"date":"2018-02-05T02:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27895"},"modified":"2018-02-05T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T02:42:20","slug":"national-weather-story-brewing-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27895","title":{"rendered":"A national weather story is brewing right here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve written before about how the national media report with added fervor on those storms that pound New York and Washington.<\/p>\n

Why? It’s a local story to them<\/em>. They are affected by the rain, the snow, the ice, the cold. In the summer, it’s the heat, man!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2010\/02\/local-news-goes-national\/<\/p>\n

It occurs to me, though, that we have a national story brewing out here in Flyover Country, a good distance from either coast.<\/p>\n

We are getting seriously parched on the High Plains of Texas, of Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico. We’re about to set a record for number of consecutive days without measurable precipitation.<\/p>\n

We’ve got farmers and ranchers in these parts who rely on rainfall and snowfall to irrigate their land. It’s not coming any time soon<\/em>. What is going to happen to their crops, meaning the food they supply to the rest of the nation?<\/p>\n

I get that we aren’t in the midst of the media conglomerates that cover the weather with intensity when it affects those regions.<\/p>\n

However, it’s important nonetheless to the rest of the country if we don’t get some moisture. Immediately!<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve written before about how the national media report with added fervor on those storms that pound New York and Washington. Why? It’s a local story to them. They are affected by the rain, the snow, the ice, the cold. In the summer, it’s the heat, man! https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2010\/02\/local-news-goes-national\/ It occurs to me, though, that we … Continue reading A national weather story is brewing right here<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[2121,4670],"class_list":["post-27895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","tag-high-plains","tag-texas-panhandle-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27899,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27895\/revisions\/27899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}