Re: Funny Weather

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:20:00 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

[snip]

It continues to appear to me that Phoenix will warm up less than most
other spots in the Northern Hemisphere will, especially in terms of high
temperature. Low temperature is expected to increase, but it will be easy
to blame at least a good part of that on increase of "urban heat island"
effect.

I've lived here for 45 years. If anything the temperatures seem to be
dropping slightly.(*) The _problem_ is that the "official"
temperature is at the airport, one of the largest airports in the US,
and a HUGE expanse of concrete.

As I heard, humidity and rainfall are expected to increase.
(Though I expect that at least a fair amount of the time the uptick in
relative humidity will be one or two percentage points - such as from 12
to 13 or 14 percent or the like).

Cosmetologists and astrologists could do a better predictive job than
our so-called weather experts :-)


See if Phoenix in the 2010's or 2020's shows a trend of an uptick in low
temperatures, winter temperatures, rainfall, thunderstorm activity,
aannual average dewpoint, a slight increase in average relative humidity,
but by 2030 has only gotten 1 degree F past the alltime record high of 122
degrees F set in 1990.

Maybe at the airport. I remember 124°F in downtown Scottsdale in June
of 1962.


And see what Prudhoe Bay, Alaska or Iqaluit (formerly Forbisher Bay),
northern Canada does in that time frame - probably warm up a lot more than
Phoenix will!

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)

(*) I watch my kWh consumption carefully, mostly to spot equipment
failures before it costs me ;-)

If I deduct kWh consumption of new additions to my load, such as a
waterfall pump, a heat-pump on my spa, and a chiller on my salt-water
aquarium, the average consumption has dropped during the summer.

It has also dropped during the winter, so our temperature seems headed
toward more uniform winter and summer.

Works for me.

As for Boston, the Appalachians, etc... isn't most of downtown Boston
(and Back Bay) right at sea level ?:-)

...Jim Thompson
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