I HEAR YOU WELL.  We have had a mixed spring with both above and below
normal temperatures.  I am going camping in west central Idaho about
4500 feet the first week after the 4th and while it is cool this weekend
with mid 70 I do hope it warms up a bit but not too much by that time.



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From: For blind ham radio operators
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:22 AM
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Subject: Re: East of the pond

Brett Winches writes:
> Martin,  How far are you from Moore?  Also are things finally drying 
> out there yet?

	Stillwater is about 80 miles North of Moore and we are still
about to drown. It just won't stop.


>  I was amazed last week in central Kansas as it was as wet as I have 
> ever seen it this time of year.  On the other hand I have not been 
> back in June since 2000.  =20

	Oklahoma had something like either the first or second-wettest
May ever, at least since official records were kept beginning in
1890-something. It's just horrible right now.
I'd take 105 degrees in the dry shade any day over this steamy mess. O
well, my ground rods are working really well if there was only something
to hear.

	Stillwater, which is about 40 miles South of the Kansas border,
is right on the dividing line between two climatic classifications. We
are on the edge of the climatic zone which describes all of the
Southeastern United states in rainfall and temperature extremes. Just to
our West, however is a zone called Desert-steppe. Western Oklahoma has
salt planes and cactus just like New Mexico and Arizona. Because of
that, Stillwater's weather kind of behaves like one zone or the other
from year to year. This year, it is tropical rain forest and we are sick
of it.

	Just two years ago, we were dry as a bone and the fire situation
was flat scary every day. The military was helping fire departments
fight daily battles with range fires that sometimes moved up to 40 miles
per hour like the ones you hear about in California.

	What we need is to be more normal. A little less rain than the
Eastern part of the state and enough for the crops and to keep the whole
world from burning up.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ