SOCIAL: this rain [warning: science alert]

[Randall Isaac]

Actually, the experts always say the same thing:  that global warming is a
climactic shift and you can't attribute any one year's weather or any one
weather event to it.  There was a lot of talk about whether Katrina and Rita
were caused by global warming, and the answer was the same.

Remember that this March was the *second* wettest month on record; the
wettest was in 1982, and the second rainiest March (in terms of number of
days of rain) was in 1904.  Pretty tough to pin all that on global warming.

Randall

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Tanner [mailto:tanxiaoyue at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:28 PM
To: randall at deadletter.com
Subject: Re: SOCIAL: this rain [warning: science alert]


in all of your reading, has anyone reputable attributed this to global 
warming?


>From: "Randall Isaac" <randall at deadletter.com>
>To: <social at deeptrouble.com>
>Subject: Re: SOCIAL: this rain [warning: science alert]
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:56:14 -0700
>
>	For the last month I have been asking the question "Why does God
hate 
>us?"  And being something of a Weather Geek (among all my other
>geekiness) I've been reading all the NOAA discussions on the topic.  It 
>turns out that God does not hate us, but Greenland does.  A massive 
>high pressure system has been locked over Greenland for the past two 
>months, which is trapping another high over Canada, meanwhile a large 
>low pressure system has been locked west of Hawaii (which has had 
>almost 2 solid months of rain as well).  That low sucks up moisture 
>from the South Pacific and funnels it to the Gulf of Alaska, where it 
>creates storms which would normally move across Canada and the 
>northwest, but they instead rotate south around the Canadian high and 
>straight into us.  These low and high pressure systems create a 
>self-sustaining mega-system that hasn't moved for a couple months.
>
>	The possible light at the end of the tunnel is that Hawaii has
finally 
>started returning to a normal trade wind pattern and is reestablishing 
>a high-pressure system.  This may finally chop off one leg of
>the mega-system, so maybe the other legs will start to fall.  About damn
>time, too.  I don't think I can go two years in a row without a Spring.
>
>NOAA Weather Satellites: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
>World weather map: http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/UA.shtml
>
>
>Randall
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com
>[mailto:social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com] On Behalf Of 
>Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org
>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:26 AM
>To: social at deeptrouble.com
>Subject: SOCIAL: this rain
>
>
>
>Good rain to you all,
>the past few days reminded me of a poem I wrote while living in Taiwan 
>(which has much heavier seemingly unending rain):
>
>       bitter, I spit on the day
>       the day just pisses back more rain
>
>:-)
>Actually, somewhat perversely perhaps, I'm in somewhat of a good mood.
>+ Adrian Cotter
>
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