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

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<cdadnZ_1YcWlXh7VnZ2dnUVZ_ovinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

I've only got 12 years of data

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

Certainly - but not by me. As mentioned, I'm well away from the
official station at the airport, that the weather I see is
significantly different from there.

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.

I'd suspect the warm front pushing moisture from the Gulf (of California
in our case, Mexico in yours) is pretty rare. Most of the air masses
coming in from the Pacific are pretty well emptied by the mountains to
the West before they reach here.

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.

The other problem with the lack of rain is people forgetting about it.
We have the same problem with flash flooding, and people who insist it's
OK to drive right on through. Arizona put in a "Stupid" law, that
basically says that if you are stupid enough to drive into a flooded
area and get trapped or swept away, you pay the rescue costs as a fine.

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".

CO is _far_ from the only place with that problem. I've seen the exact
same behavior in the California Sierras, as well as places in the
Northeast - like PA, NY, and MA off the top of the head.

As a sorta aside, the folks in CO seem to treat _all_ traffic signs
as merely advisory and something to be ignored.

That one too.

While the drivers in Italy are possibly among the worst in the world,
those in CO come close.

Never been to South East Asia? They're lousy learners, and the
teachers were the French.

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.

The chart that tells me "you gotta be THIS high to avoid making a
mess of your bird" says 7197.

El Paso owes its existence to the fact that it is/was the farthest
north year-round passage over the Continental Divide.

Your neighbors a bit West if Deming might think otherwise ;-)

Certainly, there were other factors, but that fact helped draw the
railroads and the trans-continental trails and later highways.

I suspect the river had a lot to do with the siting as well.

Old guy
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Relevant Pages

  • April 2006 National Weather Summary
    ... thunderstorms with frequent lightning were observed, ... San Francisco saw 25 days of rain. ... Hail and high winds were reported from the Carolinas, Georgia, eastern ... Temperatures in parts of the Plains rose into the 90s. ...
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  • National Weather Summary March 2007
    ... Snow and freezing rain fell in New ... temperatures in the 30s and 40s. ... Otherwise, a strong ridge of high pressure dominated the Great Plains, ... scattered rain showers and thunderstorms ...
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  • National Weather Summary October 2006
    ... Rain continued in New ... Showers and thunderstorms moved through the Southwest and Great Basin ... Rain and thunderstorms moved through the Upper Mississippi Valley, ...
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  • National Weather Summary May 2005
    ... Light rain fell in the ... Appalachians, mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions. ... thunderstorms were reported in southern Florida. ... Strong low pressure produced showers and thunderstorms over much of ...
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  • June 2005 National Weather Summary
    ... In the nation's midsection, showers and isolated thunderstorms ... Rain swept across much of the East Coast and central United States on ... Central Rockies on Friday with reports of heavy downpours, ...
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