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

In article <slrng8abl0.qju.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
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.

Yeah, well, unless the backyard weather station down the block
is sanctioned by NOAA, then the official station's weather
records are the ones that apply. If we gauged the weather here
in El Pasy by _my_ location, our precip totals would be
a helluva lot higher and the temps would be dramatically
different, as well. Not something to argue about, to be sure.


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.

All you have to do is see the satellite pics of the moisture plumes
coming in from the Pacific ... For the most part, our moisture
comes in off hte Pacific, though there ARE times, like this coming
week, when there will be a decidef flow from the Gulf of Mexico
and the tropical storm that's due to come to land somewhere
around Brownsville. The Rio Grande valley forms a natural conduit
for that kind of flow.

<snip>

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.

No doubt. ISTR even more idiotic driving behavior in the DC
area when I was stationed there. The drive in to the District
from Fairfax along US 50 was, shall we say, an adventure. It'd
probably make a helluva good video game, come to think of it.

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.

Yeah, I've noticed that about AZ plated cars here in Texas. And,
no doubt, there'd be those who'd point out that Texas plated
cars are just as bad in wherever-the-hell.


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.

Been there, done that, plus they were shootin' at me at the
same time. Still, I'll stand by my assessment.


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 ;-)

Hey, you gonna dispute the official propaganda? No argument that
the divide is a tad west of here, but for all season crossings
of the mountains (Rockies and offspring like the White,
Franklin, and Sacramento in this area), EP is _the_ place.

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.

Some, to be sure, but it was the railroads and trails through
here that were key. The original El Paso (now Cd. Juarez) was
a stop on the Camino Real between Mexico City and Santa Fe during
the Spanish/Mexican rule. Current El Paso (formerly Franklin)
was a staging point on the Butterfield Trail, as well as a
railroad hub.

(hi)Storical Ol' Bob

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