Subj : weather and climate
To : JIM WELLER
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 20:23:30
Hi Jim,
SH> We have had the heat on a few days already.
JW> While Shawn is seeing unseasonably cold weather mine is way hotter
JW> than normal. We set numerous heat records in the NWT almost daily
JW> throughout August and Sept. One day last week we hit 70 F breaking
JW> the old record of 62 when the normal average is just 43 F.
We're getting a bit of late fall weather right now but it's supposed to
get up near 80 by Friday. Then temps will go back down to the 60s, some
low 70s which is the norm for this time of year. We've seen some color
in the trees but will be seeing more and more as the month progresses.
JW> Here's the latest one: we had a frost free September for the first
JW> time in recorded history!
That is unusual.
JW> But that in itself is just weather. However we have also set over
JW> 300 out of 365 daily high records in the past 40 years but more than
JW> 300 out of 365 lows were recorded in the prior 48 years when the
JW> first weather station was built here in 1944. And our permafrost is
JW> melting to the point that buildings are collapsing.
A re-building boom in your future?
RH> Hurricane Ian
JW> One of your five worst ones ever. I see in today's breaking news that
JW> although it weakened down to a storm it regained strength over the
JW> open water and landed again as a full blown hurricane after all.
JW> By the time Atlantic hurricanes get as far north as the Canadian
JW> Maritimes, they have usually weakened down to a mere "ex-tropical
JW> storm" with, at worst, gale force winds. They generally get about
JW> one a year that does any damage. Force 1 hurricanes are a once a
JW> decade event and Force 2 hurricanes happen about once a century.
We got 2.6" of rain from Friday morning to Saturday afternoon. We
actually got off easy in this area, this time. We had a power flicker
but it didn't go out. We've got some canned goods and other non
perishable foodstuffs that could have been loaded into the camper
quickly, had we had to evacuate but didn't, this time. Hurricane season
ends at the end of November so we've still got a couple of months to go.
JW> Fiona hit Nova Scotia and then Newfoundland as a Force 2. Why did it
JW> pick up moisture and regained stength over the open water? Because
JW> the ocean water is warmer than it used to be.
JW> To bring this back to food, the Colorado River irrigates millions of
JW> acres of farmland in Arizona and California. And Lake Mead is drying
JW> up!
JW> "Water levels this summer were at their lowest since the of Hoover
JW> Dam was built in 1937. Lake Mead has been undergoing a downward
JW> trend for a couple of decades. But its water levels have fallen
JW> precipitously over the last two years. The reservoir is now at just
JW> 27% of capacity." - Patricia Aaron, Bureau of Reclamation, on NBC
JW> News.
With both of our daughters out west, we've been watching the news on
that situation. Older daughter is out of Las Vegas so not quite as
concerned for her as for the younger daughter in the Phoenix area. It'll
be interesting to follow the weather out there this winter, see if the
reservoirs replenish.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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