"the weather here is great!"

[gOOber]

Goob, how much of Isaac did you all get there around Jackson?

Tugboat"we got 12.5" at my house in 24 hours"Cap!

Jackson only got about four and three fourths inches. Columbia and Hattiesburg got almost four times as much.

[Tugboatc]

Glad the Pearl didn't flood downtown Jackson.  I heard the lake behind Mirror Lake Plazza/McAllisters out on Lakeland just about overflowed.

Tugboat"I used to work at Mirror Lake Plazza"Cap!

[DruulEmpire]

Yesterday (October 25) this Burgh saw a record-breaking all-time high of 82 for that day.  Today was likewise kinda summery.  Yet snow may hit the mountains to the east of us in two days.

Autumn.

[rtpoe]

Hurricane Sandy is heading for New Jersey. Some are calling this "Frankenstorm" * , since it will arrive at high tide, and in colliding with a cold air from Canada, it could produce snow. They're talking potential damages around $1 billion...

I wonder if there's someone in the Romney campaign secretly wishing it would make landfall a little more south, in the swing states of Virginia and North Carolina. NJ and NY are solid Democrat states, and aren't likely to shift to the Republican side by people blaming the current administration for a natural disaster. However, I'm willing to bet that some southern preacher will see the storm as God's punishment for the EEEvils in NYC....

* pronounced "FROHNK-en-sturm"

[BustArtist]

Hurricane Sandy is heading for New Jersey. Some are calling this "Frankenstorm" * , since it will arrive at high tide, and in colliding with a cold air from Canada, it could produce snow. They're talking potential damages around $1 billion...

I wonder if there's someone in the Romney campaign secretly wishing it would make landfall a little more south, in the swing states of Virginia and North Carolina. NJ and NY are solid Democrat states, and aren't likely to shift to the Republican side by people blaming the current administration for a natural disaster. However, I'm willing to bet that some southern preacher will see the storm as God's punishment for the EEEvils in NYC....

* pronounced "FROHNK-en-sturm"

Hope you fared well, rtpoe!  We survived relatively unscathed (LUCKILY!), thought the region suffered devastating damage!   Heh... "potential damages around $1 billion".  Turned out to be about $20-50 billion and rising.

:/

[rtpoe]

No damage to the apt building, but power flickerd and went to "half power" for a few days - half the outlets had power, half didnt. luckily the fridge had power. All back to normal now.

Can't add anything you couldn,t get from the local news website (Lohud.com)

typing this on my minitablet leeching a neighbor's wifi since my own connection is still down...

[DruulEmpire]

rtpoe, my sister lives out your way, she had to live without power for a few days, and watched horses help to pull fallen trees off the roads, but she's sounding all right.

One of the few pluses of this wild new weather is that Pittsburgh may be getting into a new habit: a very pleasant "Indian summer" in the middle of November.  We had one the other year, and we're enjoying one right now.  Gather ye rosebuds.

[Triumph]

  My power came back on one hour ago, took a team of 6 guys 4 hours to correct the outage. It's been 14 days without!!! I'll tell more later from Preston county WV, but theres a lot of things to catch up...  later--->Triumph
  Yeah, 14 days of Amish living without electricity. It was a slush/snow/storm event that the name Frankenstorm befits. Went to bed on the 29th and slept thru the initial cause of my problem to wake and find the 60' hemlock tree in the front yard had snapped about 8 foot up on the trunk. It fell onto the driveway and took out the house service with about 6' of the masthead line torn from their brackets. The service line had also ripped from the transformer on the telephone pole putting the nieghboring house in the dark as well.
  So I get up pretty early most days before dawn. Wake up, huh, my clock is'nt working, look out the front window, see the tree down, think to self "this aint good", go to kitchen and look out that window, hmmm, the rest of town is dark also, think to self " this really aint good" and start preparing a fire in the woodstove.
  Dawn breaks and the fire has the tea kettle singing, get a cup of tea and put the heavy winter gear on and go outside. It's quiet in an interesting and erie way - not much sound at all except for the breaking and crashing of snow-ladden branches and trees. What is this stuff? I grab the snow shovel and try it. It's 8 inches of slush! I carefully trudge my way around the hemlock to see how bad the damage is, oh, there's two 50 foot cherry trees down in the drive as well. Hooboy.
  Later that day the slush achieves a depth of 12 inches. It's incredibly heavy, one can only lift half a snow shovel worth and dump it. My carport shows signs of stress and I get the snow rake out and work on it.
  I'll continue this tomarrow... Later--->Triumph

[Tugboatc]

Had the second frost of the season last night here in SE Louisiana.  Most weather predictions are for a positive PDO with a slit jet stream, bringing a colder than average winter to the deep south and eastern US with a much higher than normal precipitation prediction.  What does this all mean?

LOTS of snow and cold for the Eastern half of the US this winter.  Most are comparing it to the winter of 2010.

Tugboat"Bring on the Snow!"Cap!

[Triumph]

  I wrote this as an email to my friends. It makes a better decription than the 'play-by-play' thing I wrote above. Today's a nice day and I'll be able to do more yard clean-up and maybe work on the house too. Later--->Triumph

[pedonbio]

One of the many things that have changed drastically in my lifetime has been weather forecasting. Mostly thanks to satellite observation and, to a lesser extent, doppler radar, it is now possible to follow the development and track of storms. Weather in the northern tier of the United States is dominated by the jet stream. Its usual track enters North America over southern British Columbia and Washington, and proceeds across Alberta and Montana and the Northern Midwest.

In winter the weather in any location depends on temperature. Between December and March the temperature at the west end of that track (where I live) stays in a range from the low 30s to the low 40s, so Seattle gets rain. A lot of rain. On the handful of occasions in the past century when the temperature dipped below freezing for more than a day, we got snow in the lowlands. A lot of snow. In 1910 it was ten feet. In 1950 it was six feet. In 1967 it was five feet, which is a lot for a large city. But usually the temperature stays within a degree or two of freezing and we get cold rain, or a snow/rain mix.

This is my way of saying two things: The heavy rains we had last week are now dumping snow on Minnesota and Wisconsin. And, for my friends in the Midwest, you'll have a day or two break, but there is more on the way.

[gOOber]

People tend to forget that guns cause global warming,

[gOOber]

The weather is great somewhere right now.

[solvegas]

^ It was good here. 71 farenheit for the high and 48 for the low according to my fancy-dandy electronic temperature gage. Unlike the east, March will not come in as a lion here in Lost Wages. 

[pedonbio]

Great Seattle weather here! All the way up to 47 degrees, and it only rained for 20 hours today!

[pedonbio]

 

[gOOber]

 

[solvegas]

It's been Hell here in Sin City. Sunny, between 70 - 80 degrees for the highs and 55 - 60 for the lows for the last couple of weeks with almost no rain. Haven't seen the need to turn on the air conditioner / heater at all which means utility bill should be low. The humanity ! 

[pedonbio]

Since the national press has picked up on the recent landslides around here, I should note that the folks who live atop cliffs around Seattle are 1%ers. I suspect that's why the national press gives a damn.

[solvegas]

Since the national press has picked up on the recent landslides around here, I should note that the folks who live atop cliffs around Seattle are 1%ers. I suspect that's why the national press gives a damn.

Same thing when a Hollyweird star home in Malibu slides onto the beach .....

[pedonbio]

Same thing when a Hollyweird star home in Malibu slides onto the beach .....

Yep. Last night the local news channel interviewed Steve Ballmer, who lives about 200 feet from the edge now. Because of the geology the cliff has been sliding for about 11,000 years. Ballmer is an optimist; he thinks 200 feet is enough, and the view is great.

[gOOber]

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[pedonbio]

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Watch out, trailer park!

[solvegas]

I'm here in Dallas visiting relatives and it was 38 degrees this morning. My aunt has been living in this house for 34 years and in this part of Texas for most of her 86 years and can't remember being this cold here on this date ever. The local weatherman says it is a record low. I blame global warming. 

[pedonbio]

I'm here in Dallas visiting relatives and it was 38 degrees this morning. My aunt has been living in this house for 34 years and in this part of Texas for most of her 86 years and can't remember being this cold here on this date ever. The local weatherman says it is a record low. I blame global warming. 

It probably is, sol. While climate change overall is raising global temperatures, the most obvious effect is the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Portland and Seattle are both in the 80s for the next week. 

[Palomine]

I'm here in Dallas visiting relatives and it was 38 degrees this morning. My aunt has been living in this house for 34 years and in this part of Texas for most of her 86 years and can't remember being this cold here on this date ever. The local weatherman says it is a record low. I blame global warming. 

LOL!

Ah, the sterling influence of Faux Nooz continues to be felt far and wide, even years after the fictionalized drivel that Roger Ailes' paid propagandists has been objectively and repeatedly disproved. "Global warming" doesn't mean that it gets hotter every place on the planet every year... how many times does someone have to explain that?! Though the average global temperature has been steadily increasing over time (and there's no meaningful percentage of scientists who disagree with that fact, nor with the conclusion that it's due at least in part to human actions) climate change and natural variations are such that some places will get hotter and some colder, some wetter and some drier... and yes, extreme weather events are more common.

I love it whenever Sean Hannity or another Fauxy nincompoop relates a story about how cold it is someplace (i.e.: like your aunt)... since I can't bring myself to believe that he actually doesn't understand the difference between statistically valid and anecdotal evidence, I can only surmise that he knows what he's saying is utter bull$hit, but he's happy to lie to the public over and over again, simply for his own financial gain (his paycheck, earned furthering the political agenda put forth by his boss Roger).

There are plenty of things that can be disagreed upon by sincere, learned people on both sides of an issue... I'm sorry to tell you that the existence and cause of climate change isn't one of them.

[gOOber]

May snow.

clickit

[pedonbio]

Excuse me, but I think Hell has frozen over. Today Seattle (actually Federal Way) had the high temperature for the country...

[solvegas]

Yesterday and today the weather has returned to normal. 98 yesterday and 104 today. We've had a unusually cool spring so far and it's suppose to cool down again later this week even though not as low as the past few weeks. I'm just glad my power bills will be lower. 

[pedonbio]

Today Seattle had a thunderstorm, the first rain we've had in a week (which is a virtual drought in Seattle) and now the sun is back. What makes this odd is that we average two thunderstorms a year, and this was our third in a year that isn't half over yet.

[gOOber]

 

[gOOber]

Today Seattle had a thunderstorm, the first rain we've had in a week (which is a virtual drought in Seattle) and now the sun is back. What makes this odd is that we average two thunderstorms a year, and this was our third in a year that isn't half over yet.

I wonder why Seattle is called the "Emerald City"?

[pedonbio]

I wonder why Seattle is called the "Emerald City"?

We hardly deserve it. At the moment there is a raging debate going on because the state board regulating ganja has come out with a draft set of regulations which includes a rule excluding hashish and hash oil from the list of allowed derivative products. What a way to harsh on my mellow!

Hash--The Vitamin of the Mind!

[luvdemwhoppers]

^hash is gOOd. I order corned beef" hash" and eggs regularly at IHOP. U get toast and coffee 2.