I drove 510 miles round trip yesterday/today to observe an asteroid occultation
from Hoover Dam. All the cloud forecasts indicated it would be clear or I never
would have gone. Two hours before the event a huge cloud bank showed up on
satellite and moved into the area and it was only a stroke of lucky that I was
able to see and video record the occultation through a gap. The weather this
year has so far skunked 6 of my planned events and likely 2 more this weekend.
Paul Paul D. Maley email: pdmaley@xxxxxxxxx
From: Leah S <lphxaz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:43 AM
Subject: [pasmembers] Re: Clouds
what a perfect name for a tropical storm! I think that is the name of the
tropical storm that causes *all* of our problems. in the meantime there's a
major ice storm across most of the northern US, there's a tornado alert in
Texas, and OMG we have *clouds*!!!!! call Car 54!
let's just take into consideration that even in a desert, there are sometimes
clouds and rain, and let's hope that our skies will clear in time for the next
star party. :)
On 1/16/2017 11:27 AM, William Finch wrote:
I think it's leftover from Tropical Storm Paine.
On Jan 16, 2017 11:23 AM, "Peter Turner" <peteturner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It turns out that we aren’t the only ones that feel the weather has been
weird lately. This is something of a global phenomenon primarily due to the
buildup in pollutants in the atmosphere. Locally we can expect more cloudy
weather than normal on a long-term basis. “One study published recently in
Nature Climate Change predicted more extreme-rainfall events as a result of the
projected warming. The researchers predicted that extreme precipitation will
increase by 1 to 2 percent every decade in dry regions like the Southwest,
based on 60 years of measurements from 11,000 weather stations throughout the
world. The weather we are getting over the past couple of months is due to a
greater than normal El Nino, which has also lasted longer than normal. This
coupled with a strong Arctic oscillation has resulted in us being wetter than
normal and the arctic warmer than normal. At one point last month the arctic
was recording temperatures above freezing. Pete Turner From:
pasmembers-bounce@freelists. org [mailto:pasmembers-bounce@ freelists.org] On ;
Behalf Of Howard Moneta
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 10:43 AM
To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pasmembers] Re: Clouds Does anyone have an idea of why we are
getting so much rain and so many clouds? How long will it last? On Mon, Jan
16, 2017 at 9:54 AM Don Boyd <azphotog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I ordered a couple of things as well in the past 2 weeks...between the 3 of
us I think thgat meanbs 6 more weeks of this! Just kidding. Don
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Peter Turner <peteturner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don’t feel bad Earl. I ordered two things last week and they just arrived.
Maybe my order and yours will cancel things out. Pete Turner From:
pasmembers-bounce@freelists. org [mailto:pasmembers-bounce@ freelists.org] On ;
Behalf Of Earl DeLong
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:58 AM
To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pasmembers] Clouds Since it has been cloudy for so long, I
decided to order some astronomy toys to give the clouds reason to be here. I
hope it doesn't mean six more weeks of dreary days. Seems like I'm back in the
Midwest. Earl
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