Re: Miserable cold wet rainy April

 
You bring those purple mountain majesties right back here, mister.

Those are *our* purple mountain majesties, not Canuckistan's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City#Climate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-arid_climate

 

We get even less precipitation here in the southern San Joaquin
valley.

And I haven't seen a flake of snow hit the ground since I've lived
here.

Month/ Av Lo/ Av Hi/ Rec Lo /Rec Hi /Av Precip /Av Snow

Jan   39°/ 58°/ 19° (1950)/ 79° (1986)/ 2.17"/ 0"
Feb   43°/ 65°/ 23° (1989)/ 85° (1989)/ 1.99"/ 0"
Mar   47°/ 70°/ 28° (1971)/ 91° (2004)/ 2.33"/ 0"
Apr    50°/ 77°/ 29° (1953)/ 99° (1981)/ 0.87"/ 0"
May   56°/ 85°/ 37° (1975)/109° (1984)/ 0.42"/ 0"
Jun    62°/ 93°/ 30° (1971)/ 112° (1976)/ 0.11"/ 0"
Jul     67°/ 98°/ 48° (1955)/ 113° (1972)/ 0.01"/ 0"
Aug   66°/ 97°/ 46° (1968)/ 112° (1996)/ 0.02"/ 0"
Sep   61°/ 92°/ 37° (1968)/ 109° (1950)/ 0.35"/ 0"
Oct    53°/ 83°/ 33° (2003)/ 103° (1996)/ 0.65"/ 0"
Nov   44°/ 68°/ 27° (1993)/ 89° (1966)/ 1.14"/ 0"
Dec  38°/ 58°/ 16° (1990)/ 80° (1981)/ 1.43"/ 0"

Total of average precipitation = 11.49 inches

A climate is technically a desert if it receives less than 10 inches
of rainfall per year.

The other side of the San Joaquin valley is technically a desert.

However, before the farmers drained the huge Tule Lake, it was the
largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes at 800 square miles.

Tule Lake was fed by snowmelt off the Sierra Nevadas, flowing down the
San Joaquin, Kaweah, Tule and Kern rivers.

The water filled the lake and flowed down to the Sacramento River
Delta, and then to the sea.

However, the California Water Resources Board mandated that *no drop
of water* from the southern Sierra Nevada should reach the sea back in
1940.

And using all the water for irrigation and draining Tule Lake has
affected the weather.

I talked to Peggy (she runs Mountain Market in Glennville where riders
stop for refreshments) about whether it snowed there and she told me
that she'd seen snow as high as the top of a fence post when she was a
little girl but draining Tule Lake has caused less rainfall.

Little towns like Glennville and Woody were originally established in
the Sierra Nevada foothills because of the humidity and mosquitos
around Tule Lake.

That's also why the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route ran
along the foothills.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gazpublic/getgooglemap?p_lat=35.7288416&p_lo=
ngi=-118.7036997&fid=271314

 
Mormon.

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