Marvelous Movie
George Wilkerson put together the video below of the fog rumbling through Salt Lake City from 6–7 Feb. Check it out.
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...
Reminds me of waves coming in at the beach, then the water washing back out again. Nice video.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great movie! I like watching the sources of steam and smoke near the end of the movie. They wave back and forth as the air sloshes around in the valley.
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