Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.
In all probability,global ocean warming is causing this phenomena as
well as higher
temperatures.
Now if it could just warm up that "you know where".

-- a Drought-ridden Ex-Eugenian among Salemites

"777thSector" wrote:


Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.

Except, of course, for all of the other times it's happened.

Lobby Dosser wrote:
"777thSector" wrote:


Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The
continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is bizarre
and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.

Except, of course, for all of the other times it's happened.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I've checked the records at the state library here and since the
1880's there has never been a period with as many mild and dry winters
as there has been in the last 10 years.There also has never been so
many consecutive months of below-average precipitation as in the
last 5 years.
The number of 80 and 90+ temps.and drought summers are on the
increase as well.
Even if this is a relatively short cycle on a geological time
scale,it could still be centuries long.

You're in denial friend;global warming is a reality.

"777thSector" wrote:


Lobby Dosser wrote:
"777thSector" wrote:


Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The
continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is bizarre
and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.

Except, of course, for all of the other times it's happened.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I've checked the records at the state library here and since the
1880's there has never been a period with as many mild and dry winters
as there has been in the last 10 years.There also has never been so
many consecutive months of below-average precipitation as in the
last 5 years.
The number of 80 and 90+ temps.and drought summers are on the
increase as well.
Even if this is a relatively short cycle on a geological time
scale,it could still be centuries long.

Or not.


You're in denial friend;global warming is a reality.

No, you're in denial about the reality of the record. The record for
Oregon is around 125 years. Period.

777thSector wrote:
Lobby Dosser wrote:
"777thSector" wrote:


Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The
continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is
bizarre
and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.

Except, of course, for all of the other times it's happened.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I've checked the records at the state library here and since the
1880's there has never been a period with as many mild and dry
winters
as there has been in the last 10 years.There also has never been so
many consecutive months of below-average precipitation as in the
last 5 years.
The number of 80 and 90+ temps.and drought summers are on the
increase as well.
Even if this is a relatively short cycle on a geological time
scale,it could still be centuries long.

You're in denial friend;global warming is a reality.


So are you of the position that the Earth's temperature is
suppost to be constant?

777thSector wrote:

Even if this is a relatively short cycle on a geological
time scale, it could still be centuries long.

You're in denial friend; global warming is a reality.


Perhaps it is. It would be stupid to expect no cycles
at all. The difference is that some people want to
use this fact to micromanage people and engage in
more social engineering. People can't even begin to
influence these cycles as much as the micromanagers
want to believe. And if the latter really cared, they
wouldn't support a treaty (Kyoto) that permitted
China and the all of the third world to burn coal.

Bob T

On 11 Feb 2005 00:02:46 -0800, "777thSector"
wrote:


Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The continued
incapacity of this
winter sky to yield anything more than mist or sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly
unprecedented in recorded history.

You have not lived in Oregon very long

"Gene" wrote in message

Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The continued
incapacity of this winter sky to yield anything more than mist or
sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly unprecedented in recorded history.

You have not lived in Oregon very long

Well, we don't very often see our ski resorts closed down in the middle of
February for lack of snow. It's definately going to be a brutally dry
summer.

-c

"gatt" wrote:


"Gene" wrote in message

Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The
continued
incapacity of this winter sky to yield anything more than mist or
sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly unprecedented in recorded history.

You have not lived in Oregon very long

Well, we don't very often see our ski resorts closed down in the
middle of February for lack of snow. It's definately going to be a
brutally dry summer.

Or a cool wet one, or ...


-c

Lobby Dosser wrote:

"gatt" wrote:


"Gene" wrote in message

Who needs clear dry days with "rainy" ones like this.The
continued
incapacity of this winter sky to yield anything more than mist or
sprinkle is bizarre and
certainly unprecedented in recorded history.

You have not lived in Oregon very long

Well, we don't very often see our ski resorts closed down in the
middle of February for lack of snow. It's definately going to be a
brutally dry summer.

Or a cool wet one, or ...

When we don't have winter, we have uninhabitably hot, dry summers. We
didn't have winter at the beginning of 1977, 1997, 2000 or 2002, and each
of those summers melted my shoes to manhole covers. 1997 was a *really*
bad summer, I ended up so tanned and sunburned I had to get a new driver's
license because everybody thought I had stolen some Mexican immigrant's
license from the photo and was peeling until Thanksgiving.

This year will probably be bad, as we're still waiting for winter (and no,
that 40 hours of ice we had counts as fall weather, not winter).

--
Paul Johnson

http://ursine.ca/~baloo/