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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.181125.16137@unocal.com>
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- References: <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:11:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
- >
- >I've commented several times about this apparent correlation during the six year CA drought
- >and predicted wet years were ahead. The recent solar cycle peaked in mid-1991 at an unusally
- >high level, ditto the drought. The first winter after the peak has had almost normal percipitation,
- >the second above normal. There was a solar cycle maximum and drought 1976-78 in CA too.
- >Solar geophysical activity is reported in sci.space.news.
- >Based on this hypothesis, normal to above normal percipitation is predicted for CA for the next
- >four or five years until the cycle bottoms out.
- >Weather correlations in CA do not necessarily apply to other parts of the country or world.
-
- A counter hypothesis for the behavior of past twenty-some years was a
- coincidental one-two punch of global warming and global cooling.
- The global warming was caused by atomospheric contaminants and predicted
- an northward push of Mexican deserts into CA.
- The global cooling was caused by Pinatubo and other volcanoes,
- still definately noticeable in sunsets.
-
- Two years ago I and some friends were debating whether the unusally long
- five year CA drought was due to solar activity or global warming.
- I am leaning toward a solar activity explaination these days :-)
- (The smilely is beacause we understand so little about climate.)
-