Re: OT: Wild Weather

Jim Thompson wrote:

 > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:24:46 -0500, Mark Jones 
<abuse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
 > wrote:

 >> Jim Thompson wrote:
 >>
 >>> See...
 >>>
 >>> http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/Funnel.gif

 >> Snow in Arizona?
 >>
 >> So, about that whole global warming thing...
 >>
 >> Or maybe the "eurotrash" are enacting vengance against 
the entire state of AZ for Jim's earlier comments?  ;)

 > ROTFL ;-)
 >
 > The snow up north is not unusual... just the heavy 
rains/tornados down
 > in the Phoenix area... though we DO have an occasional 
_summer_
 > tornado... one in 1972 wiped out most of my neighborhood 
in North
 > Scottsdale... houses all around me went down... I just 
suffered
 > sand-blasted paint plus people's roofs in my swimming 
pool :-(

   Same storm that tore part of the roof off the Green 
Gables restaurant at 3d avenue and Camelback and uprooted 
huge trees in the neighborhood immediately north? That was 
back when nobody'd admit tornadoes were possible here; the 
weatherdrones of the day kept blaming microbursts (but then 
they didn't have their own Doppler radar either). Also 
before the current drought started; I remember much more 
severe summer thunderstorms, sandstorms, and rain, and the 
occasional Phoenix snowfall in winter though it didn't 
"stick" very long of course.

   Remember Johhny Carson talking about building a snowman 
in his yard? We got Cali's leftovers that year; my midtown 
yard's total snow load yielded a three-foot snowdwarf. ;>)

   Not evidence of "global warming", just local climate 
returning to "normal". Just an ex-snowbird's opinion; the 
drought seems to be ending.

   Mark L. Fergerson