the watershed

 Hello hello, welcome to the Climate Report! This is just going to be a rundown with some context of the year here in SLC. At some point I would love to do a more detailed rundown for the west, perhaps the country, and maybe even the globe, though at the moment I do not have time to do such things and the info is out there and not too terribly hard to find.  Anyhow!  The basics - Temperature anomaly for the year - 3.5 degrees F above average. Snow data - Total received 16 inches - Annual norm - 56.9  Below is a graph depicting the average and observed precipitation as well.         All of the data used in this is from NOAA using google sheets to do some basic averaging. As you can see, wow it was a rough fucking year if you hate snow and heat and water.    It kind of seems that many do honestly, they seem happy that it doesn't snow in the valley anymore and happy they can swim in their private pools nearly year round. Well, friends,...

  I always find the urge to put in a break, sometimes mid-sentence,  but definitely after each period.  Sometimes I find the urge to make the space wide, a void opened up between thoughts,  make sure there is time to consume what's been said.  Sometimes there are no spaces at all, no line breaks other than that demanded by the end of a page, a screen, simply because I cannot write across the globe in perpetuity.     Why can't I write my science article, my dissertation with forced pauses and style? Why can't I tell you about the mosses and wetlands, where the frogs used to live - before - a fungus, Batachochytrium dendrobatidis, brought by us came and dissolved their skin?  It's a different kind of story-telling, I know, but sometimes it seems more effective.  Translating the facts and data between poetry and professionally formatted article.    They say that science must remain emotionless, disciplined.  No, there are ...