On 7/28/23 10:44, bent fender wrote:
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:11:13 -0700 Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> :
Since we're wandering into off-topic territory I might as well add that San Diego has been rather cool too. Indeed, there was a 4-month period starting in mid February this year where we didn't have a fully sunny day. Wolfgang Manor's solar array has been under-producing!
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/1816/2023/Historical-Weather-during-2023-in-San...
Our micro-climate is driven by being close to the coast where the California Current carries cold water down from the Bearing Sea. We have full-blown deserts not too far east of us. The only thing I cannot resist is temptation so off topic here goes!
I take it you live in the micro-climate you describe; I live in another similar one where the Gulf stream cools our eastern Quebec (and maritime provinces) climate. These cyclical sawtooth global warming episodes that have nothing to do with Greta's periods WILL become wider, wilder, and more frequent as we approach the tipping-point over into the next very long downslope to an ice-age. That 'point' may still be thousands of years ahead. What I want to ask you is how YOUR corner of the world is likely to fare with what many predict i.e. the slowing of ocean currents that depend on temperature DIFFERENCES to drive them. YOUR area is already warm, it don't look good with less cooling. A similar situation is predicted for estern Europe where french grape is likely to freeze on the vine not to mention them not just climatologically marginal isles to the north. WE here are likely to benefit as our climate might become warmer, maybe like NY used to be. Time will tell. Banking on less hard freezing ahead I planted 250 alaskan cedars a couple of years ago, if half survive into this new epoch I will be dead BUT famous :-)))
Well, since you ask: yes, I live in the California coastal micro-climate about 6.5-km from the Pacific Coast. A general rule-of-thumb for the area is that the air temperature increases about 0.6-C for every kilometer you move east away from the coast. The effect flattens out about 15-km inland. Once you go inland and cross the coastal mountain range you get into the desert, about 150-km east of here, where the temperatures routinely get above 47-C in the summer. I have no idea what the future holds, it's been both warmer and cooler here in the past. It used to be a lot wetter too, with rivers and large animals roaming about. We even had sabre-tooth tigers and woolly mammoths not too long ago, so go figure. Mastodon bones were found right here in San Diego that were contemporaneous with humans. That's the thing about climates: they change. We really should cease this off-topic behavior before we're cancelled. Why don't you join us at offtopic? Just pop an email over to: offtopic-join@lists.opensuse.org Regards, Lew