Subj : weather and climate
To : RUTH HAFFLY
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Sat Oct 01 2022 19:14:00
-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Shawn Highfield <=-
SH> We have had the heat on a few days already.
While Shawn is seeing unseasonably cold weather mine is way hotter
than normal. We set numerous heat records in the NWT almost daily
throughout August and Sept. One day last week we hit 70 F breaking
the old record of 62 when the normal average is just 43 F.
Here's the latest one: we had a frost free September for the first
time in recorded history!
But that in itself is just weather. However we have also set over
300 out of 365 daily high records in the past 40 years but more than
300 out of 365 lows were recorded in the prior 48 years when the
first weather station was built here in 1944. And our permafrost is
melting to the point that buildings are collapsing.
RH> Hurricane Ian
One of your five worst ones ever. I see in today's breaking news that
although it weakened down to a storm it regained strength over the
open water and landed again as a full blown hurricane after all.
By the time Atlantic hurricanes get as far north as the Canadian
Maritimes, they have usually weakened down to a mere "ex-tropical
storm" with, at worst, gale force winds. They generally get about
one a year that does any damage. Force 1 hurricanes are a once a
decade event and Force 2 hurricanes happen about once a century.
Fiona hit Nova Scotia and then Newfoundland as a Force 2. Why did it
pick up moisture and regained stength over the open water? Because
the ocean water is warmer than it used to be.
To bring this back to food, the Colorado River irrigates millions of
acres of farmland in Arizona and California. And Lake Mead is drying
up!
"Water levels this summer were at their lowest since the of Hoover
Dam was built in 1937. Lake Mead has been undergoing a downward
trend for a couple of decades. But its water levels have fallen
precipitously over the last two years. The reservoir is now at just
27% of capacity." - Patricia Aaron, Bureau of Reclamation, on NBC News.
Cheers
Jim
... She dipped her sushi in ranch so I called both HR and the cops
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