On Jul 31, 10:49?am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:43:15 -0700, Chuck Gould

wrote:
You guys just need more imaginative nomenclature. Out this way we get
winter storms that blow in from Hawaii. We call the phenomenon "The
Pineapple Express". They are tropical windstorms because they
originate in the tropics.

I'll be darned. I always thought they came from the Gulf of Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands. Have they started wearing grass skirts up
that way when no one was looking? If so, I'm now a believer in global
warming.

Very little of our local winter weather originates in the GOA. Most of
the winter storms come from the S/SW. When moisture laden air from the
tropics meets cold-arse air pouring down the Fraser River Valley or
Columbia Gorge from the mountains, we get our rare snowstorms.

But I'll let you off the hook- you don't have to believe in global
warming. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express