tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post3666729120766893819..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: A Few Drops of Rain in AustinMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-70970714923951133152011-04-04T19:11:39.574-07:002011-04-04T19:11:39.574-07:00And here is the effect on BPA's power generati...And here is the effect on BPA's power generation: <a href="http://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.aspx" rel="nofollow">BPA Balancing Authority Load and Total Wind, Hydro, and Thermal Generation, Near-Real-Time</a>. Note the recent almost complete absense of thermal, which includes the 1300 MW ALtaVista coal burner in Chehalis and the scheduled outage of the one nuclear plant, which shuts down in the spring for refueling.David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-83312948749944360902011-04-04T17:04:10.578-07:002011-04-04T17:04:10.578-07:00"here" (glub glub) is (glub) the PNW (gl..."here" (glub glub) is (glub) the PNW (glub glub) as pointed out above.<br /><br />We practically need scuba gear and the buddy system just to safely walk outside this spring.<br /><br />While a friend told me yesterday that presently there are grassland wildfires in New Mexico, south of Carrizo (Ruido) which isn't far west of Roswell.<br /><br />Looking out side here in PDX, it's hard to believe anything could be burning anywhere at the moment!dhogazahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13589109126483161671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-41527551235059883152011-04-04T16:54:41.454-07:002011-04-04T16:54:41.454-07:00Steve Bloom --- Pacific Northwest<b>Steve Bloom</b> --- Pacific NorthwestDavid B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-15815846162735400512011-04-04T16:17:29.186-07:002011-04-04T16:17:29.186-07:00That's very interesting about Toronto clouds. ...That's very interesting about Toronto clouds. Any idea as to what's behind it?<br /><br />David, where is here?Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-15619594671650793862011-04-04T15:55:26.173-07:002011-04-04T15:55:26.173-07:00All your rain is coming up here.All your rain is coming up here.David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-44731247626490515732011-04-04T11:56:22.962-07:002011-04-04T11:56:22.962-07:00Just saw a tweet for a weather stats interactive g...Just saw a tweet for a weather stats interactive graphing site that really impressed me. You might find this relevant to the OP as a means to look back at rainfall amount, cloud cover, and temperature data for a particular locale. <br />http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;a=Canada/ON/Toronto<br />Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom out to data back to 1979. <br />Viewing the stats for my home town of Toronto, I noticed a strking change in cloud cover from very high in the 90's down to a lot less in the past decade.Jim Prallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04033053570742850619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-11144859073659755622011-04-04T11:26:32.229-07:002011-04-04T11:26:32.229-07:00which I had heard to be in retreat but which still...<i>which I had heard to be in retreat but which still seem robust by the numbers.</i><br /><br />The MEI page was last updated a month ago (March 4th). In the last four weeks, the <a href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf" rel="nofollow">La Niña conditions have weakened, and forecasts are for ENSO neutral conditions by June</a> (PDF).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com