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

In article <slrng857ig.kl1.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
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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.

Why only 12 years? Surely, weather data has been collected for
Phoenix for longer than that.

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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.

Well, not quite _everything_ is as the result of thunderstorms - we
do have the infrequent soaking rain. But, then, think what a
thunderstorm entails - usually daytime heating coupled with relatively
high humidity.

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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!!!

Precip totals - last I looked, we can expect, on average, ~9.5 inches
total, divide it out however you wish. Problem with a dry climate
is that there's nothing to wash the accumulated oil residues off the
roadways, so that when there IS rain, it creates an oil slick that
makes driving really fun.

But, then, during my sojourn in Colorado Springs a while back I
was astonished at the number of people there who thought that
having a 4wd vehicle cancelled the laws of physics while driving
in a snowstorm, the attitude seeming to be "I'll just slam it into
4wd and everything will be ok and I can _still_ go 90-per". As a
sorta aside, the folks in CO seem to treat _all_ traffic signs as
merely advisory and something to be ignored. While the drivers in
Italy are possibly among the worst in the world, those in CO come
close.

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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.

Low point is certainly along the river and it certainly is lower
the farther downstream you go. But the mean elevation is
somewhere around 4500 feet - bit more, bit less, close enough
for government work.

Ranger Peak is the highest point in the Franklin Mts, the spur
that pretty much divides El Paso in half (and would, save for the
river). I don't recall the exact height, but the 7200 feet figure
sounds about right. El Paso owes its existence to the fact that
it is/was the farthest north year-round passage over the
Continental Divide. Certainly, there were other factors, but that
fact helped draw the railroads and the trans-continental trails
and later highways.



Splendid Ol' Bob

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