Posted by John Lambert on May 06, 2009 at 17:55:56 user John.
In Reply to: Re: Daylight saving time posted by Peter Ceresole on May 06, 2009 at 17:38:05:
Further to your comments about the currents in the south Pacific, we also feel the effects of the massive drift of the sea in the northern Pacific. When the moist soutwesterly winds reach coastal British Columbia they rise to clear the mountains, condense and drop their moisture as rain on the windward side of the mountains. The intermontane valleys of B.C. are, as a result, quite dry. A community just south of Vancouver city gets 29 inches of precip. a year, while where I live gets 90 inches. Can't get much more graphic than that.