Sunday Randomness #68 Weather Science Data and straws

This is a favorite link about the weather data for Salt Lake City:    https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=CAR&issuedby=SLC&product=CF6&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0

It's searchable for the last few years-just click on the versions numbers at the top to see the information for a previous month in a past year.  If you go back through the years, it's easy to calculate that we are still in drought mode.  We have not been catching up that much to the levels we really need to sustain our great Utah outdoors, no less all the water consumption we use on both residential and business levels.  Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Water deep and water less often.   Even in the summer months, I try to water just once a week with a deep soaking during the cooler hours.

We've been taking our own containers for leftovers to restaurants for a number of years now and we all use reusable water bottles.   I just got our rain straws from the Kickstarter we supported last year.  If you're interested in a fully washable straw here's the link to their new website: https://rainhydration.com/    We'll have to do a review of the straws on a different Sunday Randomness.

Author #93: Judi and Ron Barrett bring food with the weather

Judi and Ron Barrett worked together on many books, both during their marriage and after their divorce.  They have continued with the food weather books in a new title coming out in August 2013, called Grandpa's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Cookbook.  Plus there are many more titles by Judi and/or Ron Barrett that you can find at your local bookstore and/or library.

An animated movie of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs came out in 2009 and a sequel is due to come to a theater near you September 2013.  For some sneak peak pictures from the new movie, visit: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/01/17/first-look-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-2/1840839/

Author 79: Marilyn Singer with world weather

On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer

From melting snow in Alberta, Canada to hailstones in India to rain in Kenya to hot and sunny in Thailand-there's all kinds of weather in all kind of places all on the same day in March.
Read more about Marilyn Singer at: http://www.marilynsinger.net/