Hi Nick. Is Calvin Simonds your nom de plume? The book sounds great, and I'd get it in a heartbeat if it was available electronically (yeah, I'm one of *those* people LOL).
I don't really have anything to say about Peru, I barely know Ecuador despite living here for 16 years, but if your grandson decides to visit Ecuador instead, I'd be happy to meet him. I attended quite a few FRIAM and Wedtech meetings back in the early 2000s, and on my only trip back to the states, in 2012, which is probably when we met. I now just lurk on FRIAM and occasionally post some snarky irrelevant comment to cover how above my head are most of the conversations. But I still enjoy the camaraderie of being around the complexity crowd. Frank was my first boss in Santa Fe, at Bios Group. I still miss Santa Fe, and am so sad that I'll never be able to shoot the breeze with Carl Tollander. He was a true gentleman and scholar. On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Calvin Simonds The WeatherWise Gardener. Rodale Press, 1980 something. The > title is misleading. It is a general meteorology text with gardeners in > mind. One of a series I started which i called "understand-it-yourself" > books. I think it holds up remarkably well. The effects of climate warming > have altered some of the here rather than there, or the now, rather than in > two weeks, or the Holy Shit, rather than the merely awful. But the general > principles are unchanged. I am stupidly proud of it. A lot more about > the role of the jet stream has come clear since its publication, so I am > hoping to correct that. If you have trouble finding a copy, I will send one > to you. > > My grandson, about to graduate from Grinnell, an accomplished > bio-photographer and artist (see attached), would like to get back to Peru;, > which he visited briefly on his way back from a semester in Ecuador and the > Galapagos. Any thoughts? > > Gary, I have only met you once, but for some reason it was really memorable. > Please stay in touch. > > Nick > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM Gary Schiltz <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hey Nick, I knew you were interested in weather, but didn’t know you had a >> book about it. Reference please? >> >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> As a part of my plan to revise my weather book, I have been working on a >>> chapter on the jet stream. I am thinking of using the passage below as a >>> kind of epigraph. I am sending it along because it brings together two of >>> the salient concerns of Our Glorious Leader. Comments, fact checks, grumpy >>> comments always welcome. >>> >>> During the winter of 1944-5, in the last desperate days of World War II, >>> the Japanese military launched hundreds of incendiary balloons into the jet >>> stream, hoping to ignite fires in American forests. This ingenious scheme >>> worked. Many balloons made the 5,000 mile trip and some even started small >>> fires. However, the plan ultimately failed. For a large fire to be kindled >>> by one of these devices, the ground had to be had to be dry, the >>> temperature high, the humidity low, the water table depleted, all >>> conditions that often occur during summer droughts. Winter, however, is >>> the wet season in the American west. The same jet stream that brought in >>> the balloons, also brought in waves of pacific moisture that soaked the >>> ground and covered the high mountains in deep banks of snow. >>> >>> This bit of military history illustrates the relationship between the jet >>> stream and the weather we all experience, day by day. The jet stream can >>> initiate severe weather, can spark it, one might say, but only where >>> conditions below have been primed. Its seeds can only flourish where the >>> ground has been prepared. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nicholas S. 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