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. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Are you sure you really want to know that? --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .