Re: [californiadisasters] Re: Record-High Temperatures Expected

The interesting thing about "record temperatures" is that they go by one
place and one date. While Dec 12, 2010 may set record highs for some SoCal
locations for Dec 12, the fact might be that some several years on Dec 11 or
Dec 13 were much higher highs.

A look through Kim's compilations of "This date in weather history" reports
shows some interesting things in that regard, e.g. on some day of the year
in some place, one year set a record high and another year set a record low;
one year marked the Nth day without rain and another set a record for
rainfall.

Offshore "high and dry" days in Dec are not unusual in SoCal, nor are temps
in the 80s or even 90s. Rain is always "unusual", but not rare or weird.
(Getting the tail end of a storm system, where LA has clouds and everywhere
north of Point Conception gets rain, is very common also.)

The only thing that's rare or weird, at least in the valleys of the LA Basin
are sub-freezing and snow (last snow in Pasadena was 1949, one of three
recorded snowfalls since the city's founding).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Re: Record-High Temperatures Expected

> Weird in a general sense of what one expects this time of year at this
> latitude in this hemisphere but rather typical for this region during a
> strong La Nina. Thus far the weather across the nation has stuck to the
> script for a strong La Nina.
>
> Kimmer
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Vic <sactovic@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > It's been shirtsleeve weather in Sacramento for most of the last two
weeks.
> > Weird.
> >
> > Vic
> >
> >
> > --- In
californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Lin Kerns <linkerns@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Holy Cow. Right now, I'm looking out my window at the snow falling,
the
> > wind
> > > is howling, the temp is 25 with a wind chill of 11 and tonight, we
should
> > > reach a wind chill of -6. 80 degrees? Oh my word.
> > >
> > > Lin
> > > (in W. TN)
> >
> >
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