Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Why it’s hot (and dry) right now in and around North Texas

(I mean, aside from the fact that it's Summer.)

By Pegasus News wire

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In case you haven't been getting the full psychological effect of the dry and hot (and - perhaps more insidiously - downright mind-numbingly BORING) weather pattern currently in place over the North Texas region, this article describes us as being in the same geographical category as the Sahara desert, the Kalahari and the baked-earth Australian outback.

The Aggie weather scientist quoted in the piece explains at some length about the Hadley Cell phenomenon which keeps us baking under mostly cloudless skies through the deep summer months. If I'm reading the literature correctly, the spot we're in on the globe is also within the "horse latitudes," which might explain why that Shetland pony disappeared recently into one of those cracks in the earth out behind your tool shed.

posted by JM

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