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

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<bM6dndRJTfTA_BzVnZ2dnUVZ_rzinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

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.

I tend to look at "normal" in this case as being defined by the
historical weather records - if you will, the statistical norm.
In the case I've described, "normal" over the 100+ years that
weather records have been maintained for El Paso say we should
expect 2.73 inches of rain for the first half of a year.

A hundred years should provide better samples for statistics. As I
wrote in my reply to Doug, I've only got 12 years of data, and it varies
so wildly that statistics suggest years of negative rates are possible.

While we _are_ dealing with weather and not with humans, the
application is similar.

The problem is the thunderstorms. If you look at Seattle or New England,
their rainfall varies year to year, but not to the same percentages as
here where the source for everything is thunderstorms.

No question that it CAN get quite cold - nothing like the Great
White North, of course - but winters are generally pretty
tolerable and much as described. With the exception of a couple
of weeks in late January/early February, it's possible to run
around in little more than a light jacket or a sweater during
the day and nothing much heavier after the sun goes down.

I see you are supposed to get 7.32 inches of rain, and 5 inches of
snow on average. I am glad we don't get snow - like you, it's
probably bad enough when it rains and drivers suddenly discover the
fact that the roads are slippery. Astounding!!!

Other side of the coin is that, because the RH is so low, the air
doesn't hold heat very well and cools pretty rapidly after
sundown - a blessing in the summer, something of a mixed-blessing
in mid-winter.

It doesn't cool down _that_ much. We get about a month in Spring
and Fall when it's possible to open doors/windows for some portion
of the day/night. That doesn't last long.

IIRC, our mean elevation is about 4500 feet.

I'm looking at the aviation charts - the river seems to be around
3850', and the terrain North to Southeast seems _relatively_ flat
in the low 4000s, There are hills to the East to a bit over 5000,
but that line to the West gets up to 7200. Across the river, there is
also stuff above 6000.

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

No, but it moves the air around.

I've got two small humidifiers running - one in the computer area, one
in the bedroom, as more than that would make it to muggy. But then,
every room in the house has a ceiling fan, and they run 24/7 the year
round. I did the yard work this morning, because we've got an Excessive
Heat Advisory from 10:00-21:00 today and tomorrow. You can tell the
humidity is high - I looked like someone hit me with a fire-hose when I
came back in.

Old guy
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