SOCIAL: this rain [warning: science alert]

[Amy Muller]

p.s. I liked your poem, Adrian. And I'm glad to hear that someone's in a
good mood.

On 4/4/06, Amy Muller <amymuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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-----
> > 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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