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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoPlainText>> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>…I would think you would be more excited about next weekend, with California 100F temperatures from Saturday through Tuesday! Get the Pina coladas ready! BillK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>…<span style='color:black'>Eh, I see no possibility of cyclones in the Pacific coming to our aid on that BillK. There's nothing to get excited about</span>…<span style='color:black'>spike</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Wooohooo! NOAA just updated and I was greatly appointed to see that one of our low pressure systems made it to a depression. Cool! Now this formation of a tropical depression is highly concerting. The Atlantic didn’t forget how to whoop ass. Excellent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>They shoulda called it something else besides depression however. Too many negative connotations associated with that word. If we recognize that stormy weather is a good thing in modern times when ships know to go around them and we think they might contribute to needed rainfall, we should change that to something a bit more cheerful, as I did in the first paragraph, with the terms “appointed” and “concerting,” terms far more often used in their negation. When they make it to this point, perhaps it should be called a tropical elation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Note that it still doesn’t get a name at this point, only a number (five.) So we are one day out from falling to second to last place in longest span between named storms. 2007 went 60 days, we are 59 days, no named storms. Go tropical elation five!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=596 height=610 style='width:6.2083in;height:6.3541in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D8BDC4.C8A3D750"><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>