August 3, 2004
Regional Drought Photos

Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004:  The Platte River has no flowing water for the third year in a row,
Looking northeast from the middle of the river bed, just east of Grand Island at the I-80 bridge.
The small amount of water off to the right is not moving and is merely
a small pool of water left over from a recent rainfall.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004: Looking southwest from the highway 34 bridge just east of Grand Island.
The entire channel of the Platte River is dry with grasses and weeds growing.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley east of Grand Island.
The darker sand indicates that there was some recent movement of water into the main channel
of the Platte River.  However, there is no surface water evident here at this time.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley southeast of Grand Island.
The small amount of water off to the right is not moving and is merely
a small pool of water left over from a recent rainfall.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center.
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley southeast of Grand Island.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center.
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley southeast of Grand Island.
The traffic on the bridge is eastbound on Interstate 80.


LAST YEAR: Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
The Platte River without any water last year (2003).  Looking north from the middle
of the river bed, southeast of Grand Island at the I-80 bridge.
The primary difference this year is a much larger amount of grasses and weeds growing in the
river channel and few small pools of water on the surface in August 2004.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley southeast of Grand Island,
just south of the Interstate 80 bridge.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center.
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the Platte River valley southeast of Grand Island,
and about a mile upstream from the Interstate 80 bridge.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the main south channel of the Platte River, northeast
of Grand Island and near Marquette, Nebraska.
There is absolutely no evidence of any recent surface water flow.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center.
August 3, 2004: Looking northeast along the main south channel of the Platte River, northeast
of Grand Island and near Marquette, Nebraska. Local residents, with a sense of humor have put up
signs in the main channel of the river and making fun of the fact that the river is more like a residential
street than a river bed.


Image © K. Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center.
August 3, 2004: The grass alongside the Interstate near York is struggling to remain green.

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