Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

In article <slrng8017d.6v1.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
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2000 no rain between 3/29 and 6/20
2001 1.50" in April (cloudburst on 4/06, small one on 4/22)
2002 0.31" in April - nothing between 4/07 and 7/10
2003 0.23" on 4/15 - nothing else between 3/18 and 7/30
2004 2.38" in April (cloudburst) - nothing until 7/14
2005 0.37" on 4/24 - nothing else between 3/25 and 7/24
2006 0.04" on 4/04 - nothing else between 3/20 and 7/22
2007 0.42 in April (cloudburst) - nothing until 7/24
2008 0.42 on 5/24 - nothing else between 2/23 and 7/11

We're now in the middle of our monsoon season and have had
several substantial rains. Dries place in the area is
the weather station at the airport, of course, and the rain
pattern is typical of the desert - scattered, moderate to
heavy thunderstorms.

Up til 30 June we were on the verge of having our driest
1st half since they began recording weather in 1879: from
1/1 through 6/29 we had had 0.23 inch (normal for the same
period is 2.73 inch). We got just enough rainfall at the
official station of 6/30 to knock this year out of contention
and to remove it from the top 10 driest first halves. Of course,
we ARE on the northern fringe of the Chihuahuan/Sonoran Desert,
so minimal precip is NOT surprising.

What we don't have in the course of an ordinary year is the
temperature extremes - hottest ever here was 114 F a couple
of years back, coldest since records started -8 F back in the
mid 60s (-19 in Las Cruces, NM, that same winter; 42 miles
more-or-less north of here). Most summers we'll have a double
handfull of 100-105 degree days, rarely anything above that,
even more rarely anything > 110. Winter overnights average
in the upper 20s, rarely hit the teens and almost never
approach 0. While I said I'd rather do Minnesota than Phx -
some truth to that - climate here is a really nice compromise,
methinks.

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I haven't had that much time here before 1996, but I think you're right.

My first trip to Phx was, hmmmm, mid-60s - I was a helluva lot
younger and Phx was a helluva lot smaller and, dare I say?, nicer.
Trip was early spring, as I recall, temps there were tolerable, but
there was NO humidity to speak of that I can remember.

Soggy Ol' Bob

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