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On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:28:31 PM UTC-6, wrote:
For all of the rain that falls in Seattle, if was almost bone dry in Moses Lake, WA. Ellensburg and Wenatchee were fairly lush Funny thing is that despite its reputation as being so rainy, Seattle is not really that rainy. Its just myth, legend. My city of Des Moines Iowa only gets about 6 inches less rainfall/water each year. But it happens on fewer days. Seattle has its reputation due to raining so often. It just does not rain very much on each rainy day. Kind of like riding 10 miles every day of the year. Or riding 36 centuries a year. Total mileage might be the same, but they are different types of bike riding. |
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On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 12:34:33 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:38:08 PM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:28:31 PM UTC-6, wrote: For all of the rain that falls in Seattle, if was almost bone dry in Moses Lake, WA. Ellensburg and Wenatchee were fairly lush Funny thing is that despite its reputation as being so rainy, Seattle is not really that rainy. Its just myth, legend. My city of Des Moines Iowa only gets about 6 inches less rainfall/water each year. But it happens on fewer days. Seattle has its reputation due to raining so often. It just does not rain very much on each rainy day. Kind of like riding 10 miles every day of the year. Or riding 36 centuries a year. Total mileage might be the same, but they are different types of bike riding. West of Seattle is the Olympic peninsula which absorbs the greatest amount of rain. Seattle is still DAMNED wet. Average rainfall in Seattle is 38" per per year which is the average over the entire US. Portland which is closer to the coast is 43". Here in San Francisco it is only 25" of rain a year and in LA, 15" Compare this to London with its 23" after the rain pouring over Ireland and Wales and the rest of England. I am not doubting that Seattle SEEMS very wet and rainy. It does rain very frequently. 155 days per year. But it just rains a tiny little bit on each of those days. So Seattle really doesn't get that much rain. USA averages 38 inches of precipitation per year. Seattle averages 37 inches per year of water. Des Moines Iowa gets 36 inches in 108 days. No one thinks Des Moines is the rainiest place on earth. Like people think Seattle is the rainiest place on earth. But its only an inch different. And its a little below the USA average. But when it rains in Des Moines, it RAINS. Inch or two or three. Not the piddley hundredth of an inch it rains in Seattle. Seattle gets everything wet but its not really rain. Nothing floods. Iowa floods its creeks, streams, rivers couple times a year. 37 / 155 = 0.2387 inches water Seattle 36 / 108 = 0.3333 inches water Des Moines Not a whole lot of difference. 1/4 inch compared to 1/3 inch. Des Moines gets more water every time it rains than Seattle. Just rains a lot more often in Seattle. But less rainfall each time. |
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On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 3:40:27 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/15/2021 5:11 PM, wrote: On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 12:34:33 PM UTC-6, wrote: On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:38:08 PM UTC-8, wrote: On Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:28:31 PM UTC-6, wrote: For all of the rain that falls in Seattle, if was almost bone dry in Moses Lake, WA. Ellensburg and Wenatchee were fairly lush Funny thing is that despite its reputation as being so rainy, Seattle is not really that rainy. Its just myth, legend. My city of Des Moines Iowa only gets about 6 inches less rainfall/water each year. But it happens on fewer days. Seattle has its reputation due to raining so often. It just does not rain very much on each rainy day. Kind of like riding 10 miles every day of the year. Or riding 36 centuries a year. Total mileage might be the same, but they are different types of bike riding. West of Seattle is the Olympic peninsula which absorbs the greatest amount of rain. Seattle is still DAMNED wet. Average rainfall in Seattle is 38" per per year which is the average over the entire US. Portland which is closer to the coast is 43". Here in San Francisco it is only 25" of rain a year and in LA, 15" Compare this to London with its 23" after the rain pouring over Ireland and Wales and the rest of England. I am not doubting that Seattle SEEMS very wet and rainy. It does rain very frequently. 155 days per year. But it just rains a tiny little bit on each of those days. So Seattle really doesn't get that much rain. USA averages 38 inches of precipitation per year. Seattle averages 37 inches per year of water. Des Moines Iowa gets 36 inches in 108 days. No one thinks Des Moines is the rainiest place on earth. Like people think Seattle is the rainiest place on earth. But its only an inch different. And its a little below the USA average. But when it rains in Des Moines, it RAINS. Inch or two or three. Not the piddley hundredth of an inch it rains in Seattle. Seattle gets everything wet but its not really rain. Nothing floods. Iowa floods its creeks, streams, rivers couple times a year. 37 / 155 = 0.2387 inches water Seattle 36 / 108 = 0.3333 inches water Des Moines Not a whole lot of difference. 1/4 inch compared to 1/3 inch. Des Moines gets more water every time it rains than Seattle. Just rains a lot more often in Seattle. But less rainfall each time. Oddly enough, my area of Northeast Ohio has been ranked as one of the rainiest in the U.S., but in a way similar to Seattle. This area doesn't lead the country in inches of water per year, but it's close to the top in the number of days in which rain (or snow) is falling out of the sky. However, unlike the PNW, we do get thunderstorms, especially in the summer. Big ones! I was seven miles from home a couple years ago when a train of thunderstorms came through, one after another, dropping their torrents along my route. The road flooding was extreme, and some parking lots had cars up to their windows in water. The traffic backups were so tremendous that I wondered if I would be able to make the drive home. In the end, I made it only because my bike-based knowledge of back streets got me around the worst messes. It seems like afternoon summer squalls are SOP east of the Rockies and more so east of the Mississippi. One of my favorite stories is of riding through Kentucky and dropping into Falls of Rough in the middle of a epic squall and lightning storm. A car was popping up out of the camp ground right he https://tinyurl.com/y3hkpys6 It got hit by lightning when we were about fifteen feet away. It was like a Howitzer going off -- simultaneous flash-boom. It scared the snot out of me, and also scared the people in the car, who were unharmed. We hung out with the people in the car -- a guy and his girlfriend, and he claimed that just before the lightning struck, he swore some oath to his girlfriend about a story he was telling and said that if it wasn't true, may he be struck down by lightning. It seems too convenient, but his girlfriend backed him up. The lightning was well under way, so it may have fit into the conversation even before they got hit. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:27:23 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: Farm states, where crops are grown and farms are reasonable sized. Couple hundred acres at most. That was a reasonable description of my father's farm. In the mid-to-late fifties, he retired and began renting it to a neighbor. (Who didn't work out, but by the time Alice started living there, a reliable renter had been found.) About thirty years ago, I went to look at the forty acres that I inherited from Mother. My farmer was running my forty, my sister's forty, and half of our neighbor's farm as one field. But a twelve-mile drive into town isn't the big deal it was when I was growing up, so most of the old farmhouses are still inhabited, and a passing tourist isn't likely to notice that the barns, silos, and corncribs are gone. (The farm I grew up on is in a different township from the field I inherited, and was divided between the two older sisters, except for the woods field, which the second-oldest sister bought from the estate. Probably a little over a hundred acres. How Dad came by eighty acres in Perry township is a boring story.) -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at centurylink dot net |
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On 1/15/2021 8:25 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 3:40:27 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote: However, unlike the PNW, we do get thunderstorms, especially in the summer. Big ones! I was seven miles from home a couple years ago when a train of thunderstorms came through, one after another, dropping their torrents along my route. The road flooding was extreme, and some parking lots had cars up to their windows in water. The traffic backups were so tremendous that I wondered if I would be able to make the drive home. In the end, I made it only because my bike-based knowledge of back streets got me around the worst messes. It seems like afternoon summer squalls are SOP east of the Rockies and more so east of the Mississippi. One of my favorite stories is of riding through Kentucky and dropping into Falls of Rough in the middle of a epic squall and lightning storm. A car was popping up out of the camp ground right he https://tinyurl.com/y3hkpys6 It got hit by lightning when we were about fifteen feet away. It was like a Howitzer going off -- simultaneous flash-boom. On one bike tour, my kid and I were staying at a Youth Hostel in PA. We were just inside the door chatting with a woman standing on the porch when lightning hit the gutter and downspout of a shed about ten feet behind her. Oddly, it wasn't a huge explosion; just a large "crack" with a long thin spark running down the downspout. But when I worked down south, I was riding my bike home in a hilly city. At the top of one of the hills I was caught by a serious lightning storm. I took shelter on someone's porch as the lightning bolts hit repeatedly within 100 yards of me. It felt like being on the wrong end of cannon fire. I gather that our storms are triggered by relatively cool air sweeping out of the northwest (here, from Canada) running into the super humid air that comes north out of the Gulf of Mexico. And yes, that Gulf humidity does seem mostly concentrated east of the Mississippi. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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