Re: Northwest Weather Warming and Drying Up

From: Hank Oredson (horedson_at_att.net)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:16:50 GMT

"777thSector" <BrotherLode@tmicha.net> wrote in message
news:1103784263.649938.279680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Hank Oredson wrote:
>> "777thSector" <BrotherLode@tmicha.net> wrote in message
>> news:1103617074.471186.255620@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> > Months of well under-average rainfall continue to pass season after
>> > season and year after year.
>> > Drought months are not uncommon, even in late autumn and winter.
>> > Hard rain and storms,even steady rain is disappearing.
>> > Freezing low temps.are rare while 70 degree temps. and clear days
> are
>> > becoming the norm by early Spring.
>> >
>> > Can continual ocean warming,if not cyclical and
> reversible,eventually
>> > result in arid desertification sometime in this century?
>>
>>
>> The view from my window refutes those ideas.
>>
>> --
>>
>> ... Hank
>>
>> http://horedson.home.att.net
>> http://w0rli.home.att.net
>
> Don't know where your window is, but if it's in the mid-Willamette
> valley of OR,you see no snow,ice,or wind,no hard or even steady
> rain and no freezing temperature;and this is not an aberration but
> a trend.
> Ocean warming and its drying effect is no longer debatable.You may
> rightly reject the idea of the possibility for desertification,but the
> important arguments must deal with the solutions for the long term
> effects of a growing population and water depletion.

And here I thought you were talking about climate change,
as opposed to climate variability. The variability is well-known,
and the current observed weather is what one would expect
at this point in the climate cycle. From my window I have
recently seen snow, ice, wind, heavy rain, light rain, fog,
low clouds, sun, sleet and rainfall well within the normal range.

I have seen zero evidence for a possible reduction of rainfall
into the less than 5 inches per year range you suggest. Where
is the evidence for such an occurance? 

-- 
  ... Hank
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