<html> At 08:04 AM 3/7/2006 -0600, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Bottom line is that until you have a way of measuring every variable in the system, both what they were then, and what they are currently, it can't be explained simplistically. Ron N</blockquote> So, what is a simple-minded person to do? <grin> Move to Oregon -- we don't get a lot of sudden humidity swings. Well, at least we haven't had them in the past. From here on out, with global warming events confounding even the most skeptical dismissals, anything goes -- we'll get the weather we get, and LIKE it. After all, in the past Mother has served up super-volcanos, 18" of pyroclastic welded tuft over thousands  of square miles, abrupt changes to ice age conditions within a dozen years, the ice lasting for hundreds, and thirty-year droughts over whole regions, which apparently is what "disappeared" the Anasazi and brought down the Maya cities. Oregon has offshore earthquakes every few centuries, involving a sudden three-foot drop of coastal areas. [KA-RUMP!!rattle*rattle*rattle] The whole Cascade Range has a series of lovely white volcanos, some extinct, the rest just waiting and grinning quietly. Mt. Rainier <shudder> Well, enough gloom and doom for today -- Oregon pianos are really in great shape, over time. Dry-ish summers, wet but not cold winters. Wonderful climate. sssssnn </html>