Your Weather Status?

Ratmagiclady · 02-11-2010, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by cardinal43

We need about 10 inches of rain to take care of the 28" of snow we got last weekend and the 11" we got Tuesday/Wednesday. It is so much fun pulling 1/2 way out into an intersection to be able to see what is coming because of the piles of snow. Been telecommuting for the past 2 days, and the server at work was down 6 hours yesterday and 4 hours today. Now that is my type of telecommute.

Rupert: Noticed on the news this morning that Dallas was getting 4"-5" of snow. Think the average there is less than 2" a year. My wife's family in MS was expecting snow today.

For those not used to heavy snow-loads, be sure not to let the weight of it get to be too much, even on a parked car, and speaking of rain, if that's a possibility, clear the snow away from your tires: there's a possibility of getting kind of iced-in or even actually frozen down such that you might break the bead on your tires and end up with a flat.

I usually clear snow off vehicles and whatever before it gets to be too heavy, anyway, since I can only move so much weight at once to begin with. A bit at a time it can actually be decent exercise for me, but it's fairly easy to hurt or exhaust myself, too.

**boriscleto** · 02-11-2010, 12:43 PM

Snow ended early last winter and started late this winter. Below average snowfall for Syracuse so far. It's all been to the south or the north. All the snow that fell in December melted in January so we've only got about 4-5" on the ground. I wouldn't be surprised if we were hit with a double dip noreaster in March.

Prairie Dog · 02-11-2010, 12:47 PM

Normally we receive about a half inch of rainfall in the month of January and about the same for February. This year in the part of Las Vegas where I live we received just under 3 inches. So far in February, we have received a lot of rain, but don't really know how much. We can see a little snow on the mountain tops surrounding the city. Presently at 11:45 Am it's 56 degrees and fair. We are promised sunshine and 65 degrees for Valentines Day.................it's a tough life here. (I used to live in the Northern Plains and understand cold, snow, ice, wind chill, etc. It's why I moved away).

Rupert · 02-11-2010, 07:12 PM

We got five inches or so today and it is still coming down. Here in Central Texas it is equivalent to hell freezing over....and if you are on the highways, you might end up in hell or wherever you are headed pretty quick! No one here knows how to drive on snow, so they just drive like it is a nice Summer day.
Out my back window this afternoon....

**jpzk** · 02-11-2010, 07:52 PM

Total opposite here!
We usually get hwat the Estern USA is getting pretty much all through winter ... normal for us.

However, this winter has been very unusually warm and with much less snow that average.
I consider our area being quite a bit north of the Eastern coast - USA.
Another very strange phenomenon:

The "Basse Côte Nord" in Québec is very, very far North and East (Just Google the word "Havre St-Pierre" and you will see what I am talking about; well, today they had plus 3Celcius temperatures. It is usually, in January and February, much colder with temperatures going down very often to minus 20 to minus 25 (and lower) Celcius, with tons of snow.
http://www.maplandia.com/canada/quebec/minganie-basse-cote-nord/havre-saint-pierre/
Zoom out from the map until you see the entire eastern coast, including the USA and Canada ... Havre St-Pierre is very much North.

Whether this whole thing is due to some "climatic changes" ... probably not but sometimes you wonder what the heck is happening, and this is not limited to Eastern North America.

JP

**Mallee Boy** · 02-11-2010, 07:56 PM

Originally posted by Rupert

We got five inches or so today and it is still coming down. Here in Central Texas it is equivalent to hell freezing over....and if you are on the highways, you might end up in hell or wherever you are headed pretty quick! No one here knows how to drive on snow, so they just drive like it is a nice Summer day.
Out my back window this afternoon....

Quick Rupert!!!.....call the winter Olympics committee and offer them the snow.

Fl_Gulfer · 02-11-2010, 08:20 PM

I went outside a hour or so ago and it was sleeting, I'm about 1000 feet from the gulf water.

larryinlc · 02-11-2010, 08:35 PM

82 degrees and humid here today. Strange weather.

Larry

Rupert · 02-11-2010, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by Mallee Boy

Quick Rupert!!!.....call the winter Olympics committee and offer them the snow.

You think it would be enough for a few Snow Cones? LOL!

Jasvox · 02-11-2010, 10:35 PM

Lately, cool and rainy here. Temps around 0-3c at night and sometimes mild at 12-15c during the day, when it's not windy and rainy. Enjoy it, the summer lasts 6-8 months here anyway.

Jason

Rupert · 02-12-2010, 07:40 AM

What I see out my window this morning here in Central Texas...

reeftool · 02-12-2010, 09:03 AM

Originally posted by little laker

Although it's cloudy and miserable outside it's the warmest winter here recorded. I've only shoveled the driveway twice, and I shouldn't have bothered either time. It would have been melted 2 days later

Just a few hours down the road they're actually trucking, and flying in SNOW... for some Rich Man's Party called the Olympics.... just so they can have a couple of events on a mountain which rarely has good snow. This year it pretty much has None

We had similar weather conditions here in 1980 for the Lake Placid Olympics. In late December, it rained so hard one of the main roads got washed out (9N if I remember). They hauled artificial snow in dump trucks for the cross country trails as they didn't have snowmaking capability there. We finally did get a pretty good dump of snow but there were a lot of nervous people for a while.

Phil1 · 02-12-2010, 10:10 AM

My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al!

Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next.

Rupert · 02-12-2010, 10:57 AM

Originally posted by Phil1

My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al!

Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next.

Relax Phil! Boll weevils know how to stay plenty warm!

Regards!

Ratmagiclady · 02-12-2010, 03:05 PM

Snow! Blessed be!

So what if once again it's totally not in season!

Originally posted by Phil1

My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al!

Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next.

Weevils. It's spelled *weevils.*

Also, what's happening here and now is not only *quite in tune with climate change models, actually. Again. *

But it's also *colder down here than in Minnesota.*

Last I looked, anyway.

Do you think today's weather means 'climate change doesn't exist/is fine' ....Or that maybe there's more to it?

Oh, my Gods! It's becoming darker!!!! This can only mean that the Sun was destroyed and all laws of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in a gaseous atmoshere have fallen to ruin! It's not my fault!!!!!

02-11-2010, 07:52 PM	#20
jpzk Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 8,251	Total opposite here! We usually get hwat the Estern USA is getting pretty much all through winter ... normal for us. However, this winter has been very unusually warm and with much less snow that average. I consider our area being quite a bit north of the Eastern coast - USA. Another very strange phenomenon: The "Basse Côte Nord" in Québec is very, very far North and East (Just Google the word "Havre St-Pierre" and you will see what I am talking about; well, today they had plus 3Celcius temperatures. It is usually, in January and February, much colder with temperatures going down very often to minus 20 to minus 25 (and lower) Celcius, with tons of snow. http://www.maplandia.com/canada/quebec/minganie-basse-cote-nord/havre-saint-pierre/ Zoom out from the map until you see the entire eastern coast, including the USA and Canada ... Havre St-Pierre is very much North. Whether this whole thing is due to some "climatic changes" ... probably not but sometimes you wonder what the heck is happening, and this is not limited to Eastern North America. JP Last edited by jpzk; 02-11-2010 at 07:56 PM. Reason: added a link

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02-11-2010, 12:42 PM	#16
Ratmagiclady Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: GA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,563	Originally posted by cardinal43 We need about 10 inches of rain to take care of the 28" of snow we got last weekend and the 11" we got Tuesday/Wednesday. It is so much fun pulling 1/2 way out into an intersection to be able to see what is coming because of the piles of snow. Been telecommuting for the past 2 days, and the server at work was down 6 hours yesterday and 4 hours today. Now that is my type of telecommute. Rupert: Noticed on the news this morning that Dallas was getting 4"-5" of snow. Think the average there is less than 2" a year. My wife's family in MS was expecting snow today. For those not used to heavy snow-loads, be sure not to let the weight of it get to be too much, even on a parked car, and speaking of rain, if that's a possibility, clear the snow away from your tires: there's a possibility of getting kind of iced-in or even actually frozen down such that you might break the bead on your tires and end up with a flat. I usually clear snow off vehicles and whatever before it gets to be too heavy, anyway, since I can only move so much weight at once to begin with. A bit at a time it can actually be decent exercise for me, but it's fairly easy to hurt or exhaust myself, too.

02-11-2010, 12:43 PM	#17
boriscleto Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: North Syracuse, NY Photos: Gallery Posts: 16,475	Snow ended early last winter and started late this winter. Below average snowfall for Syracuse so far. It's all been to the south or the north. All the snow that fell in December melted in January so we've only got about 4-5" on the ground. I wouldn't be surprised if we were hit with a double dip noreaster in March.

02-11-2010, 12:47 PM	#18
Prairie Dog Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Photos: Gallery Posts: 109	Normally we receive about a half inch of rainfall in the month of January and about the same for February. This year in the part of Las Vegas where I live we received just under 3 inches. So far in February, we have received a lot of rain, but don't really know how much. We can see a little snow on the mountain tops surrounding the city. Presently at 11:45 Am it's 56 degrees and fair. We are promised sunshine and 65 degrees for Valentines Day.................it's a tough life here. (I used to live in the Northern Plains and understand cold, snow, ice, wind chill, etc. It's why I moved away).

02-11-2010, 07:12 PM	#19
Rupert Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 25,123 Original Poster	We got five inches or so today and it is still coming down. Here in Central Texas it is equivalent to hell freezing over....and if you are on the highways, you might end up in hell or wherever you are headed pretty quick! No one here knows how to drive on snow, so they just drive like it is a nice Summer day. Out my back window this afternoon....

02-11-2010, 07:56 PM	#21
Mallee Boy Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Australia Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,904	Originally posted by Rupert We got five inches or so today and it is still coming down. Here in Central Texas it is equivalent to hell freezing over....and if you are on the highways, you might end up in hell or wherever you are headed pretty quick! No one here knows how to drive on snow, so they just drive like it is a nice Summer day. Out my back window this afternoon.... Quick Rupert!!!.....call the winter Olympics committee and offer them the snow.

02-11-2010, 08:20 PM	#22
Fl_Gulfer Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Gulfer Photos: Albums Posts: 3,054	I went outside a hour or so ago and it was sleeting, I'm about 1000 feet from the gulf water.

02-11-2010, 08:35 PM	#23
larryinlc Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Wisconsin USA Posts: 993	82 degrees and humid here today. Strange weather. Larry

02-11-2010, 09:04 PM	#24
Rupert Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 25,123 Original Poster	Originally posted by Mallee Boy Quick Rupert!!!.....call the winter Olympics committee and offer them the snow. You think it would be enough for a few Snow Cones? LOL!

02-11-2010, 10:35 PM	#25
Jasvox Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 3,107	Lately, cool and rainy here. Temps around 0-3c at night and sometimes mild at 12-15c during the day, when it's not windy and rainy. Enjoy it, the summer lasts 6-8 months here anyway. Jason

02-12-2010, 07:40 AM	#26
Rupert Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 25,123 Original Poster	What I see out my window this morning here in Central Texas...

02-12-2010, 09:03 AM	#27
reeftool Pentaxian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upstate New York Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 9,553	Originally posted by little laker Although it's cloudy and miserable outside it's the warmest winter here recorded. I've only shoveled the driveway twice, and I shouldn't have bothered either time. It would have been melted 2 days later Just a few hours down the road they're actually trucking, and flying in SNOW... for some Rich Man's Party called the Olympics.... just so they can have a couple of events on a mountain which rarely has good snow. This year it pretty much has None We had similar weather conditions here in 1980 for the Lake Placid Olympics. In late December, it rained so hard one of the main roads got washed out (9N if I remember). They hauled artificial snow in dump trucks for the cross country trails as they didn't have snowmaking capability there. We finally did get a pretty good dump of snow but there were a lot of nervous people for a while.

02-12-2010, 10:10 AM	#28
Phil1 Inactive Account Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: SoCal Posts: 1,292	My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al! Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next.

02-12-2010, 10:57 AM	#29
Rupert Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 25,123 Original Poster	Originally posted by Phil1 My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al! Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next. Relax Phil! Boll weevils know how to stay plenty warm! Regards!

02-12-2010, 03:05 PM	#30
Ratmagiclady Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: GA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,563	Snow! Blessed be! So what if once again it's totally not in season! Originally posted by Phil1 My friend just called and said it's snowing in Mobil, Al! Damn rednecks are not buying enough carbon credits from Al Gore. Those boll wevels will be endangered next. Weevils. It's spelled weevils. Also, what's happening here and now is not only quite in tune with climate change models, actually. Again. But it's also colder down here than in Minnesota. Last I looked, anyway. Do you think today's weather means 'climate change doesn't exist/is fine' ....Or that maybe there's more to it? Oh, my Gods! It's becoming darker!!!! This can only mean that the Sun was destroyed and all laws of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in a gaseous atmoshere have fallen to ruin! It's not my fault!!!!!