On 2009 Jun 29, at 12:58 , MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
Irv wrote: I could look at some other cities in my plot and sine-wave fit, but so far nobody has suggested a city to try -- Mike, how about your city, where do you live?
Do Santa Cruz, California.
I've lived most of my life in Santa Cruz, California. That's where I used daily records to measure a 38-day lag of midwinter behind the winter solstice, when I defined midwinter as a winter day that has equal summed temperatures for the 2 months before and after it.
Irv replies: Well, Santa Cruz is not in the U Dayton list, although nearby San Francisco is, so I'll run that city, hope that's OK. The U Dayton list of US cities is at:
Hmm, it's a west coast locale with prevailing westerlies, some variations with ocean current directions, approximately 37+3/4 degrees north...
-- Irv Bromberg, Toronto, Canada
