Arrrgh!!!

I was surprised that you have higher rainfall totals than NH for the summer. I was actually surprised by the low number for NH as sometimes it seems it will never stop raining (then again, we couldn't get a pop-up storm to help water the garden in the last 10 days either).

We get a fair amount of rain in an average year. I'm sure it contributes to our incredible summer humidity. Even in drought there's some humidity as the plants and crops breath around us. I can only assume that in places like New Mexico, the plants have learned not to give up their moisture so readily. I wonder if we will have to go back to heirloom seeds to find crops that can sustain themselves during drought.

Sorry....got a little off track there. We have FINALLY gotten a few days of gentle, desperately needed rain, but we need a month of this to help the tree roots and fill the aquifers.

Wow! I just looked at the climate information and compared our three climates (Wichita/Chicago/Concord), made easier by copying the info into spreadsheets. I am amazed to see that Wichita averages 63 days of 90+ temperatures compared to Chicago's 17 and Concord's 11. Average annual precipitations are approximately 29, 36, and 36 inches. Average wind speeds are approximately 12, 10, and 7 miles per hour. (Isn't Chicago supposed to be the "big windy"?) No wonder I have a problem in Wichita! My beloved Albuquerque's numbers are: 63 days above 90 degrees, 9 inches precipitation, and 9 mph. Oh, and the average annual temperatures of the four are: 56, 49, 45 degrees (56 for Albuquerque), the average annual snow falls are: 16, 38, 64 inches (11 inches for Albuquerque), and (finally--surprisingly) the average relative humidity: 72, 75, 71 (51 for Albuquerque). I am surprised that Albuquerque's snowfalls are so low and relative humidity so high. The measurements must be made at the airport which is at an 800-foot lower altitude than that of my old house. At any rate, the relative humidity and the amount of sunshine were the most meritorious of Albuquerque's climatic numbers, to me.

Impressive....very impressive! I didn't know there was a short way to put them into spreadsheets.

I guess what you're telling us is that Wichita leaves a lot to be desired. Albuquerque sounds pretty good, until you get to the 63 days above 90 degrees, and will you look at the snowfall for Concord! Man....it must take until July for it all to melt!

btw...The Windy City isn't named for the incredible winds around those tall buildings downtown, but for earlier politicians who had the gift of gab, but not much honor.

Hmmm. Buffy, how did you manage to post as me?? A wizard! As to Albuquerque's "hot" days, those are the days when the relative humidity is 8-12% so one doesn't feel the heat. I had no trouble, at all, walking 4 miles @ 13-14 mph on the hottest of days (as long as I had my hat!) Of course, I was 15-20 years younger, then. My house, built in 1983, had no air conditioner--didn't need it. I had a whole-house swamp cooler that cooled by evaporation. One year I failed to winterize the system before our first hard freeze and received word from our home office (I don't recall where I was working at the time--either on the West Coast or on the East Coast) that my neighbor reported water running from my roof. A co-worker friend was kind enough to take the key from my desk at work and shut off the water to the cooler--plus checking the roof and the inside of the house for water damage (none). Thank goodness for friends and neighbors!

P.S. By the climatic data display, it was obvious that the data were posted from a spreadsheet. All I had to do was to highlight the data for a city, copy, and paste into a spreadsheet. I put each city's data into a separate worksheet of the same spreadsheet. Then, I linked the three/four worksheets so that I could highlight the cell that had the datum of interest and rotate through the worksheets. (My biggest challenge was remembering the 3 or 4 numbers to write in the comment, without having to go back to check!)

Amazing....just amazing. You can see that I'm not used to working with spreadsheets, and that you clearly are!

Cop Car, I don't know how I did that. I wonder if RedEagle1 helped us out there. I posted a note saying that this is what Cop Car had to say..... Perhaps when she saw that she did a little house keeping.

I've never heard of a whole house swamp cooler. I think I get the drift, but I'm astonished it works. Did you really mean to say that you walked 13-14 mph?? I'm struggling at physical therapy to build my speed back up, and I'd be THRILLED to walk at 3.5 mph, hat or no.

Buffy--Comments in order of mention in your latest two comments:
1) It's obvious that you don't do spreadsheets (I use MS Excel) or you would have bopped me for saying that I "linked" the worksheets. I "grouped" them.
2) Yes, a whole-house swamp cooler really works--well, in the desert. The pretty-good-sized unit was on the roof and the squirrel cage fan output was ducted to the main furnace plenum and thus ducted into the rooms of the house (furnace outlets are near the ceiling--the house sits on a concrete slab so that one doesn't want to run the ducting within, or under, the concrete). In the desert, swamp coolers are much more energy efficient than the typical air conditioning unit. The "down" side is that the house cannot be cooled unless someone is at home since the only effective way of providing enough escape for the air from the rooms is to open windows and/or doors.
3) *chuckling* Nice catch! I suspect that you realize that I MEANT to say 13-14 minute miles. At best, I could walk 4.5 mph. (I'd like to say that I just threw the 13-14 mph figure in there to see if you were paying attention; but, clearly, it was I who was unconscious!)

These days, on the treadmill, I never get above 4.2 mph and my "normal" speed is 3.6-4.0 mph. My exercise partner (who had knee surgery about 1.5 years ago) thinks that she does well to get to 3.5 mph. Our speed disparity is another reason that we don't walk outside; but, she seems to injure her foot/ankle/knee whenever she tries walking outside--and I've wracked up a couple of knee injuries outside, myself.

Gahhh! I just got a server error message, so I'll boil down my rather long post to a shorter one and see if that works.

1) Correcting my error: I did not "link" the worksheets (in MS Excel), but "grouped" them.
2) Yes, swamp coolers are more energy efficient than air conditioning and work well in the desert.
3) Good catch! You are correct that I should have said that I walked a 13-14 minute mile for 4 miles. I can no longer do that. Now, a 15-minute mile is doing well. Since my exercise partner and I are both prone to injury when we walk outside, and since she walks about .5 or 1 mph more slowly than I (she's had knee surgury and she has really short legs), it works better for us to use treadmills at the fitness center.

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