I am a bit irritated of the poor quality of TV weather programs. The
ones in the local news. I receive 3 stations on my TV of local news,
usually about 5 pm and then 10 pm. And the weather news is generally
about 3 to 5 minutes of the total 30 minute time (not counting the
ads).

I say poor quality because within that 3 minutes the majority of time
is spent on temperature. Anyone alive can sense what the temperature
is. Anyone can look at a thermometer and know what the temperature is.
Yet these TV stations spend about 90 percent of their weather news
talking about what the temperature of every little town between
Ho-dunk and Po-dunk.

My gripe is that they should be spending 90 percent of their time here
in the agriculture states with not temperature but with RAINFALL and
water.

I need a pictorial or graphic or statistic or chart shown every day of
how much rainfall in this area for the past 50 to 100 years. I need to
know if this area is becoming more arid. Unable to support corn or
beans and likely to support only more drought tolerant crops. I do not
need to know that the town 5 miles away was 2 degrees hotter than me.

I need to know weather facts that are important.

Instead of spending 90 percent of the weather news on temperature,
spend it on what is important around here--- RAIN, water.

I need to know what PATTERN of rainfall has set in for the past 20 or
30 years. Is the pattern of a worse drought every summer established?
Can I reckon that summer of 2007 is going to be worse than summer of
2006 for rain.

Instead of TV weather shows talking about temperature, stuff which
no-one really needs, spend the majority of the time on stuff that is
hard to keep track of such as the rainfall.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Droughts tend to make people very irritable when they have plants to
worry about.

I have lived in this area for 7 consecutive summers and have noticed
worsening summer droughts. I have not jotted down any numbers data.
This is the responsibility of the weather forecasters on the TV news.
It is okay to have the weather news be 90 percent about temperature in
the wintertime, but in the summertime the weather news for this area
since it is agriculture should be 90 percent about the rainfall.

Anyone can get in front of the camera and read off the temperature of
every little town in this area and talk 90 percent about temperature.
But temperature is unimportant in the summertime because we all can
"sense" what the temperature is and we can look at our thermometers.

What we need the TV weather news to tell us is whether the rainfall is
decreasing every summer for the past 20 or 30 years. We need to know
whether this area is becoming more arid and by how much. We need
numbers data of rainfall and how bad is this drought. We need patterns
of summer rainfall and what is behind these low precipitation summers.
We need to have some idea as to whether this area is becoming a sugar
beet climate and no longer a corn and beans climate.

We need to know why are the summers have less and less rainfall
occurring. And so for the 3 TV stations of weather news, should be
shifted away from temperature during the summer and pivot around
talking about rainfall for the 90 percent of that 3 to 5 minutes they
talk about the weather.

They talk about the temperature because that is the easiest thing to
talk about but it does not educate or inform the viewer. I do not need
the TV news to find out what time it is because I have clocks and
watches handy. What I do need the TV weather news is to have the data
and information of rainfall in the summer.

This year 2006, my region has had no speakable rainfall for June and
middle of July. It was either summer of 2005 or 2004 where we had no
rainfall at all throughout both July and August. So could this year of
2006 be the year in which our Summertime had no rainfall. This is the
sort of news the 3 TV stations should be discussing, otherwise they are
doing a very lousy job of weather reporting.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Now bear with me for a few minutes as I ask you some questions. During
the Pinatuba volcano eruptions of 1991 and 1992, I was on the East
Coast of the USA and enjoyed what is perhaps the best summer of my
life. It was cool and there was alot of rainfall.

How about here in the MidWest, the Plains region of the USA? What was
the summer of 1992 like here? I know from Minnesota report that the
summer of 1992 was their coolest. But was there alot of rainfall during
that cool summer of 1992?

How about the rest of the USA during 1992 summer. Can we say that the
summer of 1992 was the greatest, the best, the most fabulous summer
Americans ever experienced? I know I can say so for the East Coast as I
witnessed it myself.

Now I experience dreadful summers from year 2000 to 2006, of hot and
dry and drought conditions.

So can we manufacture a summer like 1992? But was the rest of the USA
as fabulous of a summer in 1992 as was the East Coast. Did the Midwest
have alot of rain in addition to being cool?

If so, if the summer of 1992 was the most fabulous summer for the whole
of the USA both in cool temperatures and ample, I mean ample amounts of
rainfall. Then by all means let us try to fabricate another summer like
1992.

How do we do this? We do it by requiring airplanes in the apogee of
their flightpath to emit Thistle seeds and to thus imitate Pinatuba
volcano of 1992. The thistle seed will reflect sunlight and cause a
cool summer and an ample rainfall.

We need a mere 30 kilometer cube of thistle seed. Thistle seed is nice
and fluffy and could easily be grown to fill a 30 kilometer cube. And
airplanes fly daily over the globe and could easily emit 30 kilometer
cube of thistle seed in the apogee of their flightpath. We could easily
imitate Pinatuba of 1992 and have cool and rainy summers and fabulous
summers for the rest of our lives.

All it takes is to just implement this program.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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How do we do this? We do it by requiring airplanes in the apogee of
their flightpath to emit Thistle seeds and to thus imitate Pinatuba
volcano of 1992. The thistle seed will reflect sunlight and cause a
cool summer and an ample rainfall.

Lemme guess...you're being held hostage by a giant goldfinch, and being
forced to say these things. I know it's a goldfinch, because if it were a
blue jay, you'd be telling us that sunflower seeds are the answer to our
impending climatological disaster...and if it were a woodpecker, suet cakes
(although I'm going to have to get busy and build myself a garage before
that one comes to pass).

Gosh, I never realized how easy this climatology thing is until now. To
think of all the time I've wasted slaving away in a lab collecting data for
the past 25 years! Hmmph.

Eric Lucas

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How do we do this? We do it by requiring airplanes in the apogee of
their flightpath to emit Thistle seeds and to thus imitate Pinatuba
volcano of 1992. The thistle seed will reflect sunlight and cause a
cool summer and an ample rainfall.

Lemme guess...you're being held hostage by a giant goldfinch, and being
forced to say these things. I know it's a goldfinch, because if it were a
blue jay, you'd be telling us that sunflower seeds are the answer to our
impending climatological disaster...and if it were a woodpecker, suet cakes
(although I'm going to have to get busy and build myself a garage before
that one comes to pass).

Eric Lucas

Thank goodness it's not a giant oriole! They prefer mealworms.

John
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