Hi Neal, the Colorado Desert is the desert area adjacent to and
surroundign the Colorado River. the majority of the desert lies in
Western Arizona and Southern California, with parts in Southern
Nevada, Northern Arizona, and Southern Utah.
The areas of hyper-sporadic rains would be small localized areas
where terrain and chance combine to exaggerate the effects of being
in the rain shadow of the Coast and Peninsular Ranges and Sierra
Nevada. Also a foctor is an area somehow missing out on both
southern and northern systems, or beign too hot for the ppt to reach
ground when hiigh elevation clouds do try to drop moisture.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Neal Chabot" <sire@...> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> That area in Colorado sounds interesting. Is it East or West
Colorado? I wonder why it is different?
>
> As for New Mexico, I've never really paid attention to where most
of the summer rains come from. I think some come from the gulf, but
most probably come from Arizona since our weather comes from the
West, and where AZ gets it from I'm not sure.
>
> Neal
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David-"The Hern"
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:18 AM
> Subject: [papercreters] Desert Construction Water -was- Re:
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>
>
> Hi Neal, except for a few of the most isolated micro spots type
> desert areas in the northern parts of the Colorado (non-Sonoran)
> desert, I totally agree with you. Besides if the area is too far
> North in the Colorado district it gets reliable but scant winter
> water from the various Alaskan systems minus the rainshadow
effect.
>
> Also the few weeks for those micro-monsoonal spots would vary a
lot
> from year to year. Depends on if a northern or southern system
can
> break through and drop some. Excpet for coastal southern
Californai
> almost all of the areas above Northern Mexico are subject to
possible
> rain from tropical moisture in any given year. Here Chubascos
from
> the Mar de Cortez are rare.
>
> I am guessing the PHX area gets its summer burst from the Cortez
> systems, and ABUQ from the Gulf of Mex, or maybe ABQ also from
the
> northen ystems that brign summer rains to the lower GPlains?
>
>
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