I think it takes more faith to be like you, an atheist, than like me, a believer, and it's because of nature. You know, I just don't think we could've lucked out to have the tides come in, the tides go out, sun go up, sun go down. Don't think it could've happenedit just can't be explained*.
Not over, either. Mr. Boldt uses even more science to explain why:[W]hy does Southern California heat up as the rest of the country cools down?
It turns out, the two phenomena are related, said Eric Boldt of the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
"This happens every year," Boldt said.
As storms travel from the Pacific Northwest to Middle America, Boldt said, they drag a high-pressure system of cool air behind them.
That cool air eventually slides down to an area in the Southwest called the Great Basin. It's just northeast of Southern California, roughly between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains.Boldt said the cool air fills up this region over time, like a bowl filling with water.
The Great Basin Region, photo via Kmusser/Creative Commons
"So cold air builds up on the other side of the mountains, say over Nevada and Utah, and then it starts to spill over the mountains and heats up quite rapidly," he said.
Boldt said this happens because the air is compressed as it flows down the mountains, building heat energy as it speeds up. It's a phenomenon called "compressional heating."
"Every year I go to buy a pumpkin later in October, we seem to be 85 to 95 degrees," he laughed. "So I think you can plan on another heatwave before we get through October."
*Also see Biblical-ish entrail-reading & fear-mongering about so-called blood moons; common sense suggests The Big Fucking Killer In The Sky has to plan his sadistic afflictions of humankind to coincide w/ these easily-predictable-over-millennia events.
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