Thursday, September 13, 2007
Monsoon Rainfall (100+ year trend)
Here is the information noted on the 10 pm news. According to meteorologists at the NWS in Phoenix,"A COMMONLY ASKED QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT RAINFALL DURING THE MONSOON IS CHANGING /OR BECOMING LESS/. BASED ON THE LONG TERM TREND FOR PHOENIX THE ANSWER IS NO. THE DATA SHOW THAT THERE IS GREAT VARIABILITY FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT...AND EVEN ONE DECADE TO THE NEXT. THERE IS ALSO A LONG TERM OSCILLATION WHICH APPEARS IN THE DATA SET...WITH PEAKS IN RAINFALL AMOUNTS /WET/ DURING THE 1910S...1950S AND 1980S...AND TROUGHS /DRY/ DURING THE 1930S...1970S AND THE 2000S."
Certainly we need more rain but for now the monsoon is over. Stay tuned as next year the monsoon period of time may be different as it will most likely have a new criteria as determined by the national weather service.
Thanks guys and gals!
Your on-air communicator,
SPG
Posted at 10:27 PM by steve
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