<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Gary, I have only met you once, but for some reason it was really memorable. Please stay in touch. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Nick<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM Gary Schiltz <<a href="mailto:gary@naturesvisualarts.com">gary@naturesvisualarts.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hey Nick, I knew you were interested in weather, but didn’t know you had a book about it. Reference please?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><i>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.<span> </span>This ingenious scheme worked.<span> </span>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 <span> </span>low,
the water table depleted, all conditions that often occur during summer droughts.<span> </span><span> </span>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.<span> </span><span> </span><span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><i>This bit of military history illustrates the relationship
between the jet stream and the weather we all experience, day by day.<span> </span>The jet stream can initiate severe weather,
can spark it, one might say, but only where conditions below have been primed.<span> </span>Its seeds can only flourish where the ground
has been prepared.<span> </span><span></span></i></p>
</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology</div><div>Clark University</div><div><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a></div><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a></div></div></div>
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