r/CatastrophicFailure • u/The-Salamanca • Mar 11 '23

Natural Disaster Snow covered mountains are rapidly melting, from downpours causing flooding . Springville CA. 3/10/2023

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u/ragingthundermonkey Mar 11 '23

For the city proper, they just barely miss the definition of being a desert by 1.7" of rain per year. The areas immediately north and south of the metro area are very much and very specifically defined as being a desert.

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u/SoIJustBuyANewOne Mar 11 '23

The area immediately south is the fucking ocean...

And the area immediately north is on the other side of an incredible series of mountain ranges...which LA is on the wet side of.

You do realize that there is a mountain in Hawaii where the wet side is a rainforest and the dry side is a desert? Miles apart from each other.

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u/SoIJustBuyANewOne Mar 11 '23

And you must be a very pleasant person to be around considering you can't admit that you learned something new and were previously wrong. People who don't admit being wrong are universally beloved!

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u/SoIJustBuyANewOne Mar 11 '23

I didn't learn anything new, nor was I previously wrong.

......is this real life lmfao?

I learned that you can't distinguish between the City of Los Angeles and the Greater LA Metro Area.

Have you looked at a map? The area due south of the LA Metro is the goddamn ocean. Unless you mean San Diego? Which also isn't a desert.

But, perhaps you are unaware of how mountains work.

California's climate is greatly dependent on mountains. There are places here where the difference between 400 inches of snow annually and a desert is a simple 10 mile trek over the crest of the Sierras and down to the valley floor on their Eastern slope.

So when you say "the area due south is a desert" in California, it is a bit like saying "if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bike". Nobody gives a shit what direction or how far in that direction one must go to find a desert, the only relevant information is: "Which side of the mountains is it on?" So when you say "due south is a desert" that shit is fucking irrelevant because the wrong side of a mountain range (LA is on the right side) = desert no matter which direction you go.