With less than a hundredth of an inch for the entire month of November, and most of us less that a trace, this has begun a pattern that most meteorologists are not recognizing, nor do they care, which is all-time record drought setting up in parts of the Southwest and Southern Plains, one that doesn’t have any end in sight.
NOAA has downplayed our situation as have most meteorological agancies, because their models are not recognizing just how bad it is here, and are even predicting normal precipitation, I must ask, how is little to no precip anywhere close to normal? Even the deserts have gotten more than that this month.
When temperatures are predicted to be as far above normal as ours for the remainder of winter,  that is almost always a sign of a worsening drought situation, and yet the CPC is only calling for persistence? 
It would be more accurate to put intensification in that forecast.
Nobody has seemed to notice an almost permanent dome of high pressure that has been nearly stationary over the central Rockies, it has not moved for the entire month, and it doesn’t appear as though it ever will, in fact, it looks like it may only strengthen over time, the mountains might be spared the worst of the dryness, but we sure wont.
This is summer all over again…
 By the way, I realize that there have been many lives lost and many more ruined in hurricane Sandy, but Sandy isn’t the only disaster that happened this year, for example, I didn’t see a single nation-wide relief effort to help those who were devastated by the horrible fires that occured all over the west this year, no, everyone forgot about them recently, so many of them are still having to live in homeless shelters 6 months later, but oh right, few people care about them anymore, because they live in a less important state than New York or New Jersey right? so they must be less important people because they’re not from New York or New Jersey, right?
I apologize to those friends of mine here who’s hearts have truly gone out to those who did lose everything in those fires, I truly appreciate the thoughts, just as my heart truly goes out to the victims of Sandy, nobody should have their home washed away, or flooded out, or burned to the ground, nobody deserves such tragedy, but also, I just personally feel like somebody’s situation should never be downplayed or forgotten or even ignored simply because of what region of the country they live in.