Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:14:37 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Weather
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> My only allergy:
> Northern lawn grass.
> In Taiwan.
> That's what almost go me *mumble* decades ago.
> ( . . .  and isn't he turning a cute shade of blue . . .)
> ( . . .  let's inject some adrenaline . . .)
>
> Here in Baltimore, the rain will only momentarily lower the temperature =
> and humidy.  Soon, the temperature and humidy will commence their speedy =
> trip upward.  Ick.

Come on, Mike, remember your high school science!   The rain may lower the
temperature (in two ways -- by "soaking it up" via evaporation, and, more
directly, via downdrafts which bring cold air down from aloft), but it surely
won't lower the *humidity*.  The reverse, of course.

This is all pretty academic to me.  It got dark and windy and it thundered,
but the storm went to the south of Falls Church, with only a few splatters for
a moment to mark its passing.  Like last night's, which went to the *north* of
Falls Church....   I was mowing my lawn, which, fresh-cut, is now *covered*
with tulip-poplar flower petals (and there are *drifts* of them in the
street!).

--Ted White