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

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<hIWdnXxPsNkmiR3VnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

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.

As here

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.

It's difficult to speak about a 'normal' rainfall for the exact reason
you wrote in the first paragraph. Thunderstorm rainfall tends to be
scattered, because a storm cell is rarely larger than a few miles in
diameter, nor lasts longer than an hour. Groups of cells may exist,
but this means only that more random places may get varying amounts.

2000 9.06" 2001 10.53" 2002 5.11" 2003 13.15"
2004 14.25" 2005 17.44" 2006 8.07" 2007 11.45"

So, what is "normal"? Up to 6/30, we had 4.78" year-to-date, and added
0.74" in three "storms" this month.

Of course, we ARE on the northern fringe of the Chihuahuan/Sonoran
Desert, so minimal precip is NOT surprising.

nor is the variability.

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).

I remember it getting down into single digits when I did a week of
support at Orogrande in 1970 or 1971.

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.

You're a good bit higher than we (S. Diablo Way is ~1200'MSL, and I'm
all the way up at 1810' - KELP and Briggs are around 3950'), and
you should be ~9 degrees cooler just due to that. I've actually seen
white stuff on the ground here (it was actually hail, but it was quite
cold and the stuff lasted about an hour), but below freezing temps are
relatively rare even though the agriculture books suggest we normally
get killing frosts in January.

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.

Discussing with ex-residents in California when I moved here, they
mentioned that the North end of town was around Camelback Road (4
miles North of city hall) in the 1960s. The city limits are now about
30 miles North, and 9 miles South. I'm living 20 miles North of that
same reference.

Soggy Ol' Bob

Forecast says chance of thunderstorms over the weekend. Your swamp
cooler probably isn't blowing very cold right now.

Old guy
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