To our neighbours, who whenever they feel hot at night
(and I mean hot in the temperature sense)
Please, desist from smoking pot.
It really peeves your neighbours
who have to close their windows
and put the fan on
and hope that the disgusting smell
this time of SKUNK!
not perfume
passes
and that they won't awake
with a sore throat
from YOUR need to relax yourself
and share with your neighbours.
Monday 4 May 2009
Saturday 2 May 2009
RAIN!
It RAINED yesterday and drizzled today. Rain! In May!
This list shows the average precipitation in inches and (mm) for San Jose, California, over the year:
January 3.2 (81.3)
February 2.8 (71.1)
March 2.6 (66)
April 1.0 (25.4)
May 0.4 (10.2)
June 0.1 (2.5)
July 0.1 (2.5)
August 0.1 (2.5)
September 0.2 (5.1)
October 0.9 (22.9)
November 1.2 (30.5)
December 2.0 (50.8)
Total: 15.1 (383.5)
(Scuse the formatting - can't be bothered writing HTML table code. Plus I think they say 2.5mm on average in June, July and August cos once in 10 years a thunderstorm dumps an inch of rain in one afternoon, then no more rain is seen for ages.)
Of course when I look at the local rainfall data, it says no rain fell at *all* in the last day. That is because it is stupid, IMO. I know rain fell cos I was out in it! There was water running off the pavements. There was water running out the storm drain into the creek. It was not coming from sprinkler systems. It may have only been 2mm of rain but it was enough to make me use my umbrella.
In hairing off looking for local rainfall data (which took over an hour, I might add plus an extra hour for a nice diversion into looking at the seismic faults around here and pics and lovely stuff), I discover that noone particularly cares how much rain falls in San Jose. Weatherunderground has lots of little local weather stations but I get the feeling many of these are quite recent as their data peters out before 2008 or 2007. I eventually found that sfgate has a list of rainfall totals for the current rain year and the last one too. SJ had 80% of its usual rainfall (12" rather than 15"). As far as I can tell, Campbell (where we live) gets less than 10" of rain a year on average, which makes me wonder how on earth they grew fruit trees here - this whole area was an orchard and canned and dried all sorts of fruits.
It just gives me the feeling that people here are just plain not interested in weather. They are used to the weather being unchanging for half the year and barely variable for the rest of it. Where I come from, the weather is a major topic of conversation - it changes. We worry about rainfall, we gripe about it being Too Hot or Too Freezing, or Too Dry or Too Wet (rarely these days - rain is good!), we have a whole network of govt sponsored weather stations, I can look up a website to see how much rainfall fell in my local area in the last day, week or year (and get historical records too)... I guess we are just boring and obsessed at home with our interest in the weather and whether we'll get any rain.
This list shows the average precipitation in inches and (mm) for San Jose, California, over the year:
January 3.2 (81.3)
February 2.8 (71.1)
March 2.6 (66)
April 1.0 (25.4)
May 0.4 (10.2)
June 0.1 (2.5)
July 0.1 (2.5)
August 0.1 (2.5)
September 0.2 (5.1)
October 0.9 (22.9)
November 1.2 (30.5)
December 2.0 (50.8)
Total: 15.1 (383.5)
(Scuse the formatting - can't be bothered writing HTML table code. Plus I think they say 2.5mm on average in June, July and August cos once in 10 years a thunderstorm dumps an inch of rain in one afternoon, then no more rain is seen for ages.)
Of course when I look at the local rainfall data, it says no rain fell at *all* in the last day. That is because it is stupid, IMO. I know rain fell cos I was out in it! There was water running off the pavements. There was water running out the storm drain into the creek. It was not coming from sprinkler systems. It may have only been 2mm of rain but it was enough to make me use my umbrella.
In hairing off looking for local rainfall data (which took over an hour, I might add plus an extra hour for a nice diversion into looking at the seismic faults around here and pics and lovely stuff), I discover that noone particularly cares how much rain falls in San Jose. Weatherunderground has lots of little local weather stations but I get the feeling many of these are quite recent as their data peters out before 2008 or 2007. I eventually found that sfgate has a list of rainfall totals for the current rain year and the last one too. SJ had 80% of its usual rainfall (12" rather than 15"). As far as I can tell, Campbell (where we live) gets less than 10" of rain a year on average, which makes me wonder how on earth they grew fruit trees here - this whole area was an orchard and canned and dried all sorts of fruits.
It just gives me the feeling that people here are just plain not interested in weather. They are used to the weather being unchanging for half the year and barely variable for the rest of it. Where I come from, the weather is a major topic of conversation - it changes. We worry about rainfall, we gripe about it being Too Hot or Too Freezing, or Too Dry or Too Wet (rarely these days - rain is good!), we have a whole network of govt sponsored weather stations, I can look up a website to see how much rainfall fell in my local area in the last day, week or year (and get historical records too)... I guess we are just boring and obsessed at home with our interest in the weather and whether we'll get any rain.
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