{"id":268718,"date":"2025-01-14T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/southern-caifornia-sic-is-about-as-dry-as-wisconsin-and-michigan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:44","slug":"southern-caifornia-sic-is-about-as-dry-as-wisconsin-and-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/southern-caifornia-sic-is-about-as-dry-as-wisconsin-and-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201csouthern Caifornia [sic] is about as dry as Wisconsin and Michigan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-55207\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In wondering why the LA wildfires had worse outcomes than say those in Wisconsi<a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/01\/hazards-of-reasoning-by-anecdotes-la-fires-version#comment-318611\">n, Mr. Bruce Hall makes this assertion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This might be true today, but over time it isn\u2019t. Once again, referring to data, I examine the PDSI for California Division 6 (LA), and Wisconsin Division 8 (Madison).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55208\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix.png 820w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ca_wi_pdsidiffpix-624x405.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> California Div 6 minus Wisconsin Div 8 PDSI (blue), and quadratic fit (red). Source: NOAA and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, since about\u20261968, or so, Madison has been drier than LA\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/01\/southern-caifornia-sic-is-about-as-dry-as-wisconsin-and-michigan\" title=\"8:29 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-01-13T20:29:38-08:00\">January 13, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/01\/southern-caifornia-sic-is-about-as-dry-as-wisconsin-and-michigan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In wondering why the LA wildfires had worse outcomes than say those in Wisconsin, Mr. Bruce Hall makes this assertion. This might be true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}