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Rain - 8/11/2006 11:59:42 AM   
MistressOfGa


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Status: offline 		When I lived in Florida it rained every day at 4pm. You could set your watch to it. I always knew when school was out and when my nephews would be coming home. Now many years later, I live in S.C. on the Savannah River and it rains every day here at 5pm. On the nose! Like clockwork. Can someone please explain how this is possible? I have lived here for 3 weeks and without fail, the rain comes down at 5pm. Frankly, I am rather sick of it. It interupts my fishing and it brings the gators to my dock.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 12:12:47 PM   
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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 12:18:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Probably the heat during the day evaporates a good deal of water from gulf and lands. At some point the air cannot hold any more water vapour and it comes back out as rain.

You might notice on days with wind blowing in a certain direction that the pattern changes. Temperature and pressure changes how much water vapour can be held in air and clouds.

It does seem that tropical or semi tropical areas can have a fairly steady rain time.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 12:20:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to live in a place like that. I love the rain...

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 12:34:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yup- life on/near the steamy Gulf.  During the day, the heat evaporates the sea water and the wind brings in the clouds.  By the afternoon, there is enough to rain.

Better than here- it's only rained twice in Austin in the month I've been here and by "rain" I mean "light spattering of wetness."  I keep asking if this is normal- everyone says "Well, we do get rain at other times of the year and we are on water restriction now" but I haven't gotten a straight answer of whether that happens EVERY year.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 1:20:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I feel bad. I forgot that most of the country is in a drought. The rain has come and gone now. Maybe we can get some fishing in :)
 
LA,
I lived in Austin for a while and it does rain quite heavily in Juen and July, which doesn't help you now lol <s>
 
Cuddle,
I love where I am living now. It wasnt a complaint about the rain, I was just curious as to why it seems to rain every day at the same time. The answers that were given make perfect sense to me now :)
 
Thank you all for answering <s>

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 4:24:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, it takes the 4:00 Florida showers just about an hour to get up to South Carolina, right?

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 4:56:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have noticed that were I live it never ever rains except like once every decade past June 21st to mid august, and rarely between May 15th to Sept 15th... It never rains in California, but girl let me warn ya, it pours, man it pours.

On edit the reason is a high pressure system sits over my state for months out of the year and it rarely moves, caused partially by the Humbolt Current (which is cold) off the coast.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 7:03:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MistressOfGa

When I lived in Florida it rained every day at 4pm. You could set your watch to it. I always knew when school was out and when my nephews would be coming home. Now many years later, I live in S.C. on the Savannah River and it rains every day here at 5pm. On the nose! Like clockwork. Can someone please explain how this is possible? I have lived here for 3 weeks and without fail, the rain comes down at 5pm. Frankly, I am rather sick of it. It interupts my fishing and it brings the gators to my dock.


My geography is not so good, but I am fairly good with meteorology.  Sounds like a sea-breeze effect to me.  During the day the ocean (or any significant body of water) absorbs heat more than the land and the cooler air over the ocean creates a localized area of high pressure.  The warmer air over the land creates an area of low pressure.  Air flows from high to low pressure and the warm air rises creating cumulus clouds and if there is significant moisture and instability in the air it creates cumulonimbus clouds, i.e. thunderstorms. 

During the summer when the south is absent of any large scale weather patterns, these localized weather patterns will repeat in the same way every day, so it rains about the same time every single day.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 7:06:39 PM   
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Better than here- it's only rained twice in Austin in the month I've been here and by "rain" I mean "light spattering of wetness."  I keep asking if this is normal- everyone says "Well, we do get rain at other times of the year and we are on water restriction now" but I haven't gotten a straight answer of whether that happens EVERY year.


I remember when I lived in the OK/TX area, someone would say "it is raining", but really it was as if you were walking through a sauna.  Water didn't really seem to be falling, so much as just hanging in the air and getting you damp.  That took awhile to get used to.  But then in spring you can have hail storms that cause white outs similar to blizzard conditions up north.  Of course your car gets a little more banged up with those.



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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 7:13:04 PM   
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.  Water didn't really seem to be falling, so much as just hanging in the air and getting you damp. 


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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 8:15:28 PM   
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When I lived in Florida it rained every day at 4pm. You could set your watch to it. I always knew when school was out and when my nephews would be coming home. Now many years later, I live in S.C. on the Savannah River and it rains every day here at 5pm. On the nose! Like clockwork. Can someone please explain how this is possible? I have lived here for 3 weeks and without fail, the rain comes down at 5pm. Frankly, I am rather sick of it. It interupts my fishing and it brings the gators to my dock.


My geography is not so good, but I am fairly good with meteorology.  Sounds like a sea-breeze effect to me.  During the day the ocean (or any significant body of water) absorbs heat more than the land and the cooler air over the ocean creates a localized area of high pressure.  The warmer air over the land creates an area of low pressure.  Air flows from high to low pressure and the warm air rises creating cumulus clouds and if there is significant moisture and instability in the air it creates cumulonimbus clouds, i.e. thunderstorms. 

During the summer when the south is absent of any large scale weather patterns, these localized weather patterns will repeat in the same way every day, so it rains about the same time every single day.

Knight's kyra

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 8:28:17 PM   
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Kyra,
I think you may have missed your calling. I could almost visualize you on the weather channel giving your report. Nice job, thank you :)
 


My Pleasure and I didn't actually miss that calling.  I have bachelor's degrees in Meteorology and Mathematics.  I have even been on the Weather Channel a couple times several years ago; not as a forecaster but just an interview.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 11:41:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm on the East Coast I got used to rain every few weeks, with huge thunderstorms and hail every May and October.  In Ireland I got used to hanging chilly mist non-stop for 4 months followed by warm sunny skies that would break into hail and rain for ten minutes and then return to sun.

We're finally started to get some honest humidity in here...I'm meltinggggg!! (jk, I've been doing ok, though really missing rain)

What kinda interviews?  Did you like explain the difference between cumulus and cirrus clouds?

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 11:45:03 PM   
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Kyra,
I think you may have missed your calling. I could almost visualize you on the weather channel giving your report. Nice job, thank you :)
 


My Pleasure and I didn't actually miss that calling.  I have bachelor's degrees in Meteorology and Mathematics.  I have even been on the Weather Channel a couple times several years ago; not as a forecaster but just an interview.

Kyra

Damn, I should of said it. I truely did see you in my mind. I didn't know this about you, but I "sensed" it about you. Very cool job.

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RE: Rain - 8/11/2006 11:47:30 PM   
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In Ireland I got used to hanging chilly mist non-stop for 4 months followed by warm sunny skies that would break into hail and rain for ten minutes and then return to sun.

God LA, I am so envious of you. I would love to go to Ireland. My ex spent years there and he talks so highly of it. I watch Far and Away just to see the scenery. Maybe one day I will get to visit there.

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RE: Rain - 8/12/2006 1:41:52 AM   
captiveplatypus


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Status: offline 		It rains and thunderstorms severely a few times a week (for like 15-20 min) in Houston in the summer months, which is basically 3/4's of the year.  I love it.

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RE: Rain - 8/12/2006 2:51:43 AM   
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My ex spent years there and he talks so highly of it. I watch Far and Away just to see the scenery. Maybe one day I will get to visit there.

Go in April- the weathers perfect and the tourists aren't there yet.

If you go touristy, you'll see tons of romantic scenery and grass and relics and all that. Really, in order to find authentic Irish stuff, you have to go to the tourist shops.  The actual street shops are just like walking down any city- with standard cultural variances.

If you want to actually see modern Ireland, just hang out in the streets for a few days and wander.

One cute story is that I was shopping for postcards one day with a friend and we noticed one that was of the corner right outside the store- but something was off about it.  We puzzled for a few moments and then realized- they had placed a large tree in front of where the McDs was to make it look more homey and like a more authentically Irish street.

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RE: Rain - 8/12/2006 3:51:36 AM   
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One cute story is that I was shopping for postcards one day with a friend and we noticed one that was of the corner right outside the store- but something was off about it.  We puzzled for a few moments and then realized- they had placed a large tree in front of where the McDs was to make it look more homey and like a more authentically Irish street.

McD's is famous for doing that all over the world. In fact, the largest McD's in the country is spread out over a toll road in Ohio *I think it is in Ohio* It's been years since I have been, but I know it has a huge gift shop..You can sit in the dining room and look down at the traffic underneath you. You can see the yellow arches long before you actually get to the exit.


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RE: Rain - 8/12/2006 4:59:35 AM   
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What kinda interviews?  Did you like explain the difference between cumulus and cirrus clouds?


For a few years I was part of a research team, (Doppler on Wheels) that chased tornados.  A crew from the Weather Channel generally follows the group.  They wanted a female perspective of someone who was part of the team that was there during the May 1999 tornado outbreak in OK.  Considering I was the only woman, I ended up getting my few seconds of fame.  An hour long interview was paired down into about 60 seconds of air time, but it was replayed several times for the next couple of years.

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