In the report, it clearly stated, the rainfall during the 'wet season,' which begins May 1 continuing to Mid-December, received huge rainfall volumes. The Panamanian Wet Season of 2005 was one of the wettest they ever recorded.
Yet, the measurement of 'relative humidity' and 'overland flow' (rain water runoff) was severely less in volume than any previous years.
The entire picture in Panama regarding its rain forest is extremely troubling for 2005. None of the principles of 'conservation of matter' applies. Rain arrived and then disappeared. It was as if the rainforest was extremely thirsty and simply soaked up any and all rain that fell.
In the report there is no overt explanation ventured to explain this vast difference, except to state, there must have been a large error from their devices.
That reality is still bothering Panama and they are receiving this year new measuring devices and while I am confident they will create an accurate picture, I sincerely doubt they will explain 'away' the anomally that occurred in 2005. See, in other prior year reports there were some deficits in measuring, human error if you will, but, there was NOT an annual phenomena that defies logic.
You see, even when Panama has their new devices to measure all their parameters more precisely; it is my guess they will never be able to measure and extrapolate an explanation for their tropical deficit in 2005.
Why?
Because it is my strong contention that the 'missing' water vapor from any of the tropical systems didn't stay in that dynamic as it 'manifested in large enough measure' in 2005. Instead, the water vapor was 'siphoned' off the tropical systems by upper tropospheric vortices and used in hurricanes in an attempt to cool Earth. It means the tropical systems in any place in the world are at danger for drought and as Chris Field has stated, fire.
We may very well regret the day, October 4, 2002; when the vortices manifested in this unique heating event of Earth. I said that, too. I also told that to Aaron Brown in some notes I sent. I said, "You know, Aaron, this society will regret ever allowing carbon dioxide to dominate Earth's troposphere and will regret their negligence of a stewardship they were required to exhibit toward the planet they call home."
