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.