How's Your Weather?
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I gather it is a rare event to have these seismic events in your area? Is there a fault line that runs through KY?
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Today's weather is really horrid, raining and cold (well coolish). I'm over it and it's hear until Friday.
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Three beautiful days in a row, with crazy 20 degree temps. here.
Lovely.
Wow ... that's quite the rapid change for you - from so cold and shoveling snow just a week ago or so ... and now this 20 degree (68°F for the US peeps) stuff. I guess that would be a time for celebrating spring.
Ouled Nails
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Most curious, Muza. And I hear about a recent snow storm in Alberta and Saskatchewan! Here, in Maine, we went from winter to summer without any spring, I swear! It was 70F today and it's been close to that for over a week. The mud season lasted about ... six days. I'm sure it's all a great illusion and we'll dip back down for a spell of late winter/spring in a few days....
Muza
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I know, we would have one day thats hot and sunny, unexpected summer, and then back to this crazy weather. I lived in Bay Area for last 5 years, and it was never like that. Its usually pretty warm this time of the year.
I just hate it cause i dont really have anywhere to go these days, but I dont even want to step out of the house for a walk cause Im afraid to be blown off the face of the earth so im just sitting around the house ;(
I just hate it cause i dont really have anywhere to go these days, but I dont even want to step out of the house for a walk cause Im afraid to be blown off the face of the earth
so im just sitting around the house ;(
Ouled Nails
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I absolutely loved San Francisco on the two occasions I attended a professional conference there. What a city! In fact, I do believe that it is the most beautiful [big] city in the States. (I also lived there for a couple of weeks during the "hippie" years).
On a different note. To what extent are we more attentive to weather patterns because of all the news about climate change -- paying far more attention to climatic fluctuations than we ever used to? To what extent are these climatic fluctuations far more excessive than anything we ever witnessed in our existence?
That is the question......:smirk:
On a different note. To what extent are we more attentive to weather patterns because of all the news about climate change -- paying far more attention to climatic fluctuations than we ever used to? To what extent are these climatic fluctuations far more excessive than anything we ever witnessed in our existence?
That is the question......:smirk:
Muza
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Yes, San Francisco is indeed one of the most beautiful cities - I cant compare it to a lot of other cities, I havent seen that many, but i think one may compare it to a European city. It has this kind of a European style - architecture, people, even weather. Thats why I absolutely love it.
Regarding your questions, i think generally we are paying more attention to weather patterns, but only because the weather patterns have been shifting in my opinion. Whether those fluctuations are due to random variations or to one certain phenomena, known to us as the Global Warming - i dont know. But you have to admit, there has been a lot of whacky stuff, weather wise, going on lately...
Regarding your questions, i think generally we are paying more attention to weather patterns, but only because the weather patterns have been shifting in my opinion. Whether those fluctuations are due to random variations or to one certain phenomena, known to us as the Global Warming - i dont know. But you have to admit, there has been a lot of whacky stuff, weather wise, going on lately...
Ouled Nails
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I easily admit. When the lake where I spend some "quality" time in the summer reached a really low level, last summer, I gathered some "bleached" wood (wood normally submerged under the water) along the shore and piled it up in the fire place. You should have seen the burst when I ignited it!
Low water level in the lake / very dry fire wood from the lake / sparks flying into the branches of ever greens = "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"
I am especially concerned about the Maine woods. Forest fires, such as those which devastated southern California last summer, are not good news for everyone and everything that lives.
Low water level in the lake / very dry fire wood from the lake / sparks flying into the branches of ever greens = "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!"
I am especially concerned about the Maine woods. Forest fires, such as those which devastated southern California last summer, are not good news for everyone and everything that lives.
Muza
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Yeah, those fires are really crazy. my family and some of my friends were asked to evacuate, but gladly - everything turned out fine for them.
I dont know how doable it is (economically cost-efficiency speaking), but there should be some kind of preventative treatment - some controlled fires and things like that.
But then of course thats not everything - if im not mistaken, those southern california fires were started by people. some brains and decency wouldnt hurt!!!!
I dont know how doable it is (economically cost-efficiency speaking), but there should be some kind of preventative treatment - some controlled fires and things like that.
But then of course thats not everything - if im not mistaken, those southern california fires were started by people. some brains and decency wouldnt hurt!!!!
Ouled Nails
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Or look at it this way: brainless punks start fires in the bush as frequently as a pipe bursting somewhere in the city. But on that particular day...........:grin:
I read in the paper the other day that part of our weather change in the states is due to the Jet Stream moving farther North. The report said it moves in that direction about 2.5 miles each year. Here in the Southwestern Desert it means higher summer temperatures with each passing year. At least I live in the high desert (2600' elevation) where it does get extremely hot, but not to the extreme as the lower elevations in this region.
Global warming? Possibly ... but I believe there are other factors and not all of them are human induced.
Global warming? Possibly ... but I believe there are other factors and not all of them are human induced.
Ouled Nails
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I agree that there's no accurate science on this topic and that's why I asked the question about media influence on people's perception. As always, the objective/subjective elements interact like a pinball in a pinball machine. The most reliable information I have found (and my apology for forgetting the scientific terminology [was it phelology?]) concerns budding -- when plants begin to bud in the spring. This is a very old data bank, for economic reasons, dating back to the nineteenth century somewhere in Europe. (Wine, what else!) And the record clearly shows that spring has been starting earlier, much earlier, than it used to. Does this demonstrate global warming? No. It demonstrates climate change on a mid-term scale which can be attributed to something natural, something solar, something "anthropo", in short, to just about anything.
methodistgirl
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The jet stream is an upper wind that carries the weather from the
west to the east. If Krummhorn gets rain sunday, my neck of the
woods Kentucky will get rain in about three days later according
to how fast the storm travels and if it doesn't fizzle out before
making it here. That is what we call the jet stream. Right now
YIPPIE! It's finally getting hot here.:clap: I'm tired of being cold.
The temps right now is 73 degrees. It sure feels good to have
the air contitioner on for now instead of the heater.
judy tooley
west to the east. If Krummhorn gets rain sunday, my neck of the
woods Kentucky will get rain in about three days later according
to how fast the storm travels and if it doesn't fizzle out before
making it here. That is what we call the jet stream. Right now
YIPPIE! It's finally getting hot here.:clap: I'm tired of being cold.
The temps right now is 73 degrees. It sure feels good to have
the air contitioner on for now instead of the heater.
judy tooley
Ouled Nails
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I'm glad for you. There's been quite a bit of flooding in your area. Flooding is an interesting natural phenomenon wherein humans have absolutely no control. We had a lot of snow this winter. It gathered in the wood, sheltered from the sun and just waited.... What is it going to be? An abundant rainfall or more snow? Just a few degrees can make such a difference!!!
In 1988, we experienced an incredible flood simply because rain, rain, rain poured on us as the woods were loaded with snow. To this day, I sit by the river and still can't fathom how such a thing could have happened. Imagine a car bridge followed by a railroad bridge where the water normally rises about twenty-five feet below. That year, the water shot through the space between the railroad bridge ties. I know 'cause I walked on it, as it shook, to experience that natural phenomenon. Streets in this little mill town were floaded. I sat the other day and tried to grasp the volume of water flowing through our town that year. I could not imagine It!
In 1988, we experienced an incredible flood simply because rain, rain, rain poured on us as the woods were loaded with snow. To this day, I sit by the river and still can't fathom how such a thing could have happened. Imagine a car bridge followed by a railroad bridge where the water normally rises about twenty-five feet below. That year, the water shot through the space between the railroad bridge ties. I know 'cause I walked on it, as it shook, to experience that natural phenomenon. Streets in this little mill town were floaded. I sat the other day and tried to grasp the volume of water flowing through our town that year. I could not imagine It!
intet_at_tabe
Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
The Danish weather people and the weather prophets above in the heavens seem to have had enough of rain, rain and then some more rain. They have blessed the Danes with sun from a clear blue sky for the past four or five days, and today is not an exception - all sunny, almost no wind at all, not a cloud for miles around and the temperature keeps climbing up to the level of human survival.