Sepia Sky
It's a real bummer given that it has been snowing on and off for a few days, but there's already a sepia tint to the lower atmosphere over the Salt Lake Valley. Pity.
America's Rainiest City?
Ketchikan, Alaska is known for two things: salmon and rain. I know this well as I have been here several times visiting family. The combination of wind and rain often makes it feel like you are living in a car wash. Ketchikan, which is located on the inland passage in southeast Alaska, has fully embraced it's status at the Rain City . It proudly displays a "liquid sunshine gauge" on the boat dock showing just how wet it is. A closeup shows that they claim an average rainfall of 12.5 ft (150") per year. That's a lot of rain and, perhaps not surprisingly, Ketchikan is widely promoted as the rainiest city in America (e.g., destimationalaska.com ). Being a meteorologist, I began to wonder if this was really the case. There are the usual challenges in evaluating such a claim. What is meant by a city? What is the period of record? Is the data reliable? Etc... For the purposes of this post, we'll concentrate on clima...
As a Seattle transplant, the ease of how quickly the haze settles in and can be around for weeks in the winter amazes me. I'll take rain almost every day over dirty and stagnant air.
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ReplyDeletea sepia sky is spicy melancholy... when appetites are sprinkled over valley's of discontent ...
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