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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  10/15/2006 01:04 PM,Bill Jones wrote:

I really dislike general terms like "out west", reminds me of someone 
telling me "it never snows in California" and I know they are 
thinking of Hollywood & SoCal in general. I often ask them if they 
were ever in Modoc county in the winter...

With that said just what "west" are you referring to? I just checked 
and on the 15th of July 2006 we'd already had 0.26" of rain. 
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KWASHELT3&day=15&year=2006&month=7 

I'm not too far from the Pacific Ocean so I'd feel pretty safe saying 
I'm in the "west" and we did have more than a quarter inch of rain in 
July. <Shrug>, no rain at all in Aug.

Like I said I really dislike 'general' terms for something like this 
but can't really think of another way to put it either.
http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html is a site I keep up with, not 
sure why. It does look dry in a lot of places

There are a LOT of different climates out "west", can you think of a 
way to be more specific?



Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA

> I guess theoretical
> discussions of people cope in dry areas are just beyond you.  I'd never
> leave the West Coast, and no one wants to freeze either.
>
> If you look at this map you'll see that every place you go out west,
> there's less than one inch of rain for all of July.  That's one-quarter
> the amount it takes to keep gardens and pastures green (generally
> accepted to be about an inch per week).
>
> .http://www.timart.be/img/main/climate2.gif
>
> Definitely, stick with what you know.
>
> Bill
> S. Oregon coast