Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Nov 17, 2024 1:23:57 GMT -5
Saw this on social media:  That was in Manchester, right? It's grim up north. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 17, 2024 6:23:22 GMT -5
(...) I was a bit sceptical, but I did find at least two websites - Live Science - was one, both of which looked credible, and both of which stated that it possibly did rain for that long. Hope there were umbrellas back then… It's what geologists call the Carnian Pluvial Episode (during the Triassic), and it apparently lasted longer than a million years. There is a really informative video from PBS Eons about it:
By the way, the Eons videos are, besides being educational, very fun and well made. I've frittered away many an hour on YouTube just clicking at the successive links to them.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 17, 2024 6:25:01 GMT -5
That was in Manchester, right? It's grim up north. Or the Pacific Northwest, at least based on the weather complaints of locals back in the '70s and '80s... |
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Post by driver1980 on Nov 17, 2024 7:21:55 GMT -5
(...) I was a bit sceptical, but I did find at least two websites - Live Science - was one, both of which looked credible, and both of which stated that it possibly did rain for that long. Hope there were umbrellas back then… It's what geologists call the Carnian Pluvial Episode (during the Triassic), and it apparently lasted longer than a million years. There is a really informative video from PBS Eons about it:
By the way, the Eons videos are, besides being educational, very fun and well made. I've frittered away many an hour on YouTube just clicking at the successive links to them.
Thank you. I shall take a look. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 17, 2024 16:01:22 GMT -5
That was in Manchester, right? It's grim up north. Or the Pacific Northwest, at least based on the weather complaints of locals back in the '70s and '80s... I’ve been in Seattle maybe four times. Every time it was sunny and warm. Which means nothing, but I find it interesting. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 17, 2024 17:51:35 GMT -5
Or the Pacific Northwest, at least based on the weather complaints of locals back in the '70s and '80s... I’ve been in Seattle maybe four times. Every time it was sunny and warm. Which means nothing, but I find it interesting. Yeah, that's basically what I meant: locals liked to complain about the 'constant rain' and how they rusted rather than tanned, but that was mostly an exaggeration. And spring and summer where I grew up (the Willamette Valley about halfway between Portland and Salem) were generally quite nice - mostly sunny and warm (and really hot in July and August) with occasional thunder showers.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 17, 2024 19:45:20 GMT -5
My Portland-area perspective: the weather is cloudy and wet a lot. Not necessarily raining, but close to it. And it can stay that way for a week at a time. In some places the pavement doesn't ever get completely dry between late October and early April.
As I wrote on another message board a few years ago, some people look out the window and see gray skies and wet pavement and conclude that it's raining, even if no rain is actually falling.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 18, 2024 4:29:20 GMT -5
My Portland-area perspective: the weather is cloudy and wet a lot. Not necessarily raining, but close to it. And it can stay that way for a week at a time. In some places the pavement doesn't ever get completely dry between late October and early April. (...) Yeah, that's kind of the way I recall it: mostly gray and drizzly, but also periods of heavy (including freezing) rain - in the fall and winter.
By the way, I thought you'd appreciate this - it's a passage from a book published in 1981, Sense of Shadow, by SF and then mystery writer Kate Wilhelm, who was a long-time Oregon (Eugene) resident. It's the musings of a psychology prof at OSU who's originally from elsewhere:
“It had taken him a year to get used to the way people in Oregon walked around in the rain apparently without noticing it. No umbrellas, no hats, no scarfs. Not in the occasional hard rains, they were like other people then, but in the daily winter mist and drizzle and light rain that fell intermittently, or simply hung in the air, they acted as if the sun were shining, went about their business and got wet, or at least very moist. After that first year, he had found that he was doing exactly the same thing, out without an umbrella or hat because either would have been a waste of time and a burden and not very necessary. No one got very wet, but no one was entirely dry most of the winter either.”
It's so true...
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