Heads up: drought!

[Daniel]

I attended a forum at the mokupapapa discovery center where this was the subject addressed. The speaker was Dr. Juvik From UHH who is basically the Guru of this subject. He said that that one could pave the mountains from top to bottom and we would still get 150 inches of rain. The rain causes that plants to grow, plants don't make rain. He did mention that in areas where there is fog, condensation occurs on trees dripping down to add the the percipitation. You will notice on saddle road green rings under some trees as evidence of this. But the fact is the mountain makes the difference, not the trees. Don't get me wrong, I love the trees, they make living here so nice, but their effect on the rain is minute.

Daniel R Diamond