Classes have been suspended in schools and universities in the country due to energy crisis
Authorities stressed that reservoir levels are critical, and measures will continue until Sunday. Energy Secretary Vincent Prescot, announced today that the measures taken in the field of energy saving have not been enough so it will take a new strategy.
Thus, it was announced the suspension of classes throughout the public and private colleges and universities across the country.
Could this be Global Climate change? Locals I spoke to say they have never experienced a year with the winds lasting so long and the rain coming so late. All anecdotal of course but the crisis is real.
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Have never seen the WASTE of water anywhere like the way they do it here. 6mths ago you could walk 50 ft from my place in Potrerillos, in any direction , and find half a dozen broken water tubes gushing out water…few cared, hardly anybody fixed them. On one farmer’s property, I saw a gusher of water 20ft high from a pipe, it went like that for TWO and half years!!…..no point cryin’ about the lack of water now when its treated so recklessly in the abundant times.
I noticed the EXACT same thing this morning...YES today, on my way into town. I live in Alto Boquete on the road to Calderra. From the turn onto the highway into Boquete, there were 6 large breaks. My son is 6 ft tall, these were shooting up over his head and they were thick streams. We were in the atv and one was so strong that it hit my son in the atv and got him quite wet. This was TODAY about 7:30 am. Everyone I ask seems to blame it on the construction on the road....these are WAY off the road and not even near where they are working. I don't get it.
i am in volcancito. have not lost water at any time. power goes off at night for 20 seconds every night, but we are lucky so far! gracias a dios!
When I closed the gym in Alto Boquete at 6 p.m., my tank was full. But I'm taking in empty gallon jugs and fill them first thing in the morning to make sure I have water to flush the toilets.
The Permo-Triassic extinction event was indeed related to global-warming - but not caused by man's excessive use of fossil fuel as it is in the current event. The most significant part of that extinction was the loss of a number of genera of marine organisms. And interestingly, recent research shows that CO2 levels in cold arctic waters are increasing at a high rate, making Arctic Ocean waters more acidic - and endangering marine life there. With the expected complete summer melt-out of Arctic sea ice in the next year or two, much more cold arctic water will be exposed to atmospheric CO2, so the rate of CO2 absorption and acidity increase is expected to jump up a few notches. We are indeed under the ancient Chinese curse of "May you live in interesting times." But weren't we talking about Boquete precipitation in this thread? Anyway, back to the original subject...
Here's Lloyd's data as a line graph - monthly and cumulative, which gives a couple of variations on visualizing the data:
Does anyone have water now?
Currently no water pressure at Zen Garden on Volcancito Road 1km past Calle Los Pinos, but it goes on and off frequently.
No water south of Alto Boquete (Boquete River Inn area) since early yesterday.
Is the rainy season about to begin - my non-scientific "opinion" is that it is highly possible.
The tropical weather nerds who inhabit the WeatherUnderground blog discussions are showing charts and having discussions indicating that the tropics are becoming active and noting that the 2013 hurricane season is about to begin.
Part of their excitement is about increasing atmospheric moisture levels off both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama. This region is a breeding ground for eastern Pacific hurricanes (a cyclogenesis region) that for tropical cyclones that usually head west, but occasionally head north for landfall in Mexico. From my casa in Volcancito Arriba, I see increasing convection and dark clouds coming up from the Pacific. Not a scientific prognostication, but rather a semi-educated guess by me, is that our rainy season might finally begin. Remember that 2008 started nearly as slowly and then exploded into rain with 3.5 inches in April and then 46 inches in May, and eventually produced serious flooding that took out the Boquete bridge near the Panamonte Hotel and damaged the Ladera Hotel.
It was raining heavily in David this evening, Wednesday, at 6:30, tapering out after Dolega. It just hasn't arrived here yet, in the mountains where it's needed.
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