We had 5 days in a row of over 100 degrees and we have had no rain in over
a month. Areas around us have had plenty of rain and some are complaining
about too much, but every time a storm approaches York, you can watch the
weather map as the clouds split and go around us. I'm watering the garden
every other day. We will be fine as long as the well does not go dry. I
wonder what the future will be here. My son, Tim, lives on the coast in
Charleston. The water has already risen considerably and the city is
working hard to improve drainage but there are still frequent floods.
Climate change is here and it's too late to do anything about it except
move to higher ground!
Tina
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> But does the west coast not experience the norms of a continental climate
>> rather than a maritime? Or should I have described the UK?s as a
>> temperate, maritime climate?
>>
> Being 900mi north of Moose we get the same Mediterranean/Maritime climate.
> But cooler dry summers and not much fog. Cooler damp winters. Similar temps
> but much different from the UK rainfall pattern where it rains all year
> long. However here locally we are additionally in the rainshadow of the
> Olympic Mtns where rainfall goes from a low of 400mm and quickly increases
> with distance. We get in the 600mm range. Similar to Piers' neck of the
> woods I think but 60% bunched in the Nov-Jan 3 month period. This little
> island is 20mi N>>S getting ~ 425mm in the south to 750+ at the northern
> tip. We're right in the middle.
>
> True continental climate is to the east of the Rockies with a modified
> continental influence between the Rockies and the coast ranges. We get an
> occasional taste of the continental influence when a high sets up inland
> and overpowers the typical westerlies moving the jetstream north of us. In
> winter we get an arctic outflow blast down the Frazer and Columbia Canyons
> which in the summer becomes a heat wave.
>
> Today we shifted to an off shore flow accompanied with orange smoke-filled
> sky. At least it has kept the temps down.This summer is an anomaly. The
> warm pool of water off the coast is really mucking things up!
>
> lesson over, prepare for a snap quiz.
>
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