Talk:Madden-Julian oscillation

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[edit] Simple English please

I don't consider myself a dumb guy. I am college graduate, a Mensa member, who teaches US history at a university here. My verbal SAT score was somewhere around 700 if memory serves. But I don't understand the first sentences. What does "(MJO) is an equatorial traveling pattern of anomalous rainfall" mean? What does "equatorial traveling pattern" and "anomalous rainfall" mean? I came to Wikipedia to find out, in basic layman's terms, what MJO means. Could we re-write this into simple, 7th grade, newspaper level English? For instance, could we say "MJO is a shifting pattern of rainfall along the equator where one area gets more rain then another for part of the period (or year or whatever) and then it switches and the second area gets more rain then the first"? Other phrases to simplify might be "enhanced and suppressed tropical rainfall". (How is rainfall suppressed? Do they send in the police to beat up the raindrops? :) ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce Hall (talk • contribs) 05:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)