SOCIAL: this rain [warning: science alert]

[Amy Muller]

Thank you, Randall.

For the past few days I have been <articulately> asking "Isn't there someone
who knows something about something who can explain what the hell is going
on with our weather???"

Apparently YOU are that someone. Thank god. Seriously, it is so satisfying
to get a reasonable explanation. 'Cause, it was either that or end times and
you know, I prefer reason.

Cheers
~amy muller

On 4/4/06, Randall Isaac <randall at deadletter.com> wrote:
>
>         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-----
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> 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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