The place is burning in December in case ya haven't noticed!
Posted on 12/10/2017 3:11:44 PM PST by BunnySlippers
The so-called Thomas Fire is only 15 percent contained, now threatening the city of Santa Barbara and the nearby coastal town of Carpinteria, and is on track to become one of the worst wildfires in California history.
It has already destroyed 583 structures and scorched 173,000 acres, the authorities say. New evacuations were ordered in Carpinteria, which been under fire threat for days.
The new evacuation zone extends within two miles of the Santa Barbara Zoo.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There are many years the annual rainfall of Los Angeles is BELOW 10 inches. Here below is a small example of how damn dry S. CA can be.
Total Seasonal Rainfall (Precipitation) Downtown Los Angeles
1884-1885 9.21
2003-2004 9.24
1893-1894 6.73
1893-1894 6.73
1899-1900 7.91
1918-1919 8.58
1927-1928 9.77
1947-1948 7.22
1948-1949 7.99
1950-1951 8.21
1963-1964 7.93
1969-1970 7.77
2006-2007 3.21
And there are many more years where it dropped below 10" which is not unusual for the region. Look it up.
Yes It averages out a bit more than 10"...Again if if looks like a duck...For all intents and purposeless S.CA is a desert, but with slightly cooler temps due to the pacific.
Would you like to see some more historic images of S. CA moonscape?☺
You do understand the definition of the word “average” right?
In 2004-2005 it was 37.25. Now THAT’s a desert! LOL!
“”Yes It averages out a bit more than 10”...Again if if looks like a duck...For all intents and purposeless S.CA is a desert, but with slightly cooler temps due to the pacific.””
Cane you read?
(I really hate to repost stuff, but so many here seem ignore what is written to them).
You never answered, would you like to see more historic S.CA moonscape photographs of the barren S.CA landscape before they pumped in all the water?
Would you like more links showing the actual classification of the climate here?
Yeah, it averages 15 inches, fifty percent more than the desert threshold. Santa Barbara averages 21 inches, over twice the threshold.
I moved from my old Ventura neighborhood five years ago and I notice on the fire map now that the house I lived in for 11 years is within feet of the fire. It’s tough to think that the houses I walked past or saw right over the back fence are likely gone.
I moved from my old Ventura neighborhood five years ago and I notice on the fire map now that the house I lived in for 11 years is within feet of the fire. It’s tough to think that the houses I walked past or saw right over the back fence are likely gone.
The place is burning in December in case ya haven't noticed!
That’s deep thinking.
Actually, it’s pretty basic stuff.
So that’s the definition of a desert now? If you have wildfires, it’s a desert?
http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/31/70376/how-much-rain-has-southern-california-received-a-l/
Huh, how about that? That moonscape must have got soaked!
☺
Yes “desert like,” just not desert. We’re making progress!
Btw, it was about 8 degrees cooler in the high desert today than the coastal LA/OC basin.☺
“Even in the warmest locations with a mediterranean-type climate, however, temperatures usually do not reach the highest readings found in adjacent desert regions because of cooling from water bodies, although strong winds from inland desert regions can sometimes boost summer temperatures, quickly increasing the risk of wildfires.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate
“adjacent desert regions”
“Deserts are areas where the rainfall is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or only very scanty scrub. The rainfall in desert areas is less than 25 mm or 10 inches per year, and some years may experience no rainfall at all...
...The Mediterranean climate is a special type of climate that describes a regime of hot summer drought and mid winter rain in the mid latitudes, north of the subtropical highs. This climate occurs most noticeably in the regions around the Mediterranean, from where the climate gets its name, but also in coastal areas of California, South Africa and southern parts of Australia.”
http://www.weather-climate.org.uk/13.php
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