How's Your Weather?
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Buchpteclare
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Ho-HO-HO!!!
We got dumped on! The five cm forecast became 20 cm - about eight inches PLUS freezing rain just to make life - ah - interesting? The warm front never showed, so temps never got over +1 (32F about). Commuters were not happy. And the freezing rain caused a lot of power failures. I was lucky - power was off for only about three hours - two of which I slept through.
Anyway I can't complain about the dreary looking bare ground now. In fact it's a regular fantasy land out there this evening. BUT - the weatherman is predicting another big storm thursday night. Sigh.....
Oh yes - current temperature is a cool -10C - but no wind. Not bad.
We got dumped on! The five cm forecast became 20 cm - about eight inches PLUS freezing rain just to make life - ah - interesting? The warm front never showed, so temps never got over +1 (32F about). Commuters were not happy. And the freezing rain caused a lot of power failures. I was lucky - power was off for only about three hours - two of which I slept through.
Anyway I can't complain about the dreary looking bare ground now. In fact it's a regular fantasy land out there this evening. BUT - the weatherman is predicting another big storm thursday night. Sigh.....
Oh yes - current temperature is a cool -10C - but no wind. Not bad.
rojo
(Ret)
^^ Indeed; took me a good 45 minutes to de-ice the car today. I couldn't even get the key in the lock; had to keep chipping away at it. I even broke off the scraper-end of the brush that I was using to bang away at the ice; it was more than a cm thick. Lucky I didn't lose an eye. Hopefully I didn't do any damage to the paint; tried to be careful. Still can't get the trunk open...
I was very glad to have snow tires yesterday. I don't think I would have made it home otherwise; the snow plows hadn't got to a lot of the streets yet.
And no power outage for me, luckily. :up:
I was very glad to have snow tires yesterday. I don't think I would have made it home otherwise; the snow plows hadn't got to a lot of the streets yet.
And no power outage for me, luckily. :up:
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Currently the heavens above Honolulu have opened up and it is thunderingly pouring rain like Niagara Falls and 19C w/ 99% RH and Southerly winds at 9m/sec.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Aloha sunwaiter,
The problem with the extremely heavy rainfall we can get in Hawaii is that it creates catastrophic flashfloods and with the high mountains the water picks up tremendous amounts of rocks, soil, logs and what not else and hurls them along at terrifying speeds towards developed areas.
A couple of years ago a flashflood inundated the basement of the research library of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and destroyed much historic research, maps, microfiches, microrolls, historic books and so on.
No one had predicted that the little Manoa brook would swell over its banks to the extent that it did.
Cheerio,
CD
The problem with the extremely heavy rainfall we can get in Hawaii is that it creates catastrophic flashfloods and with the high mountains the water picks up tremendous amounts of rocks, soil, logs and what not else and hurls them along at terrifying speeds towards developed areas.
A couple of years ago a flashflood inundated the basement of the research library of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and destroyed much historic research, maps, microfiches, microrolls, historic books and so on.
No one had predicted that the little Manoa brook would swell over its banks to the extent that it did.
Cheerio,
CD
methodistgirl
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Here it's cloudy at 37 degrees.
judy tooley
judy tooley
AlmasPerdidas
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Texas...
For the most part it's pretty hot here three fourths of the year since most of what surrounds my city is desert. The winter is pretty nice though we rarely get snow (and when we do everyone goes crazy) or rain for that matter. When we get heavy rain people freak out and there's flooding. It's pretty hilarious when you think of comparing it to a city like seattle that gets so much rain the amount we get here is pretty insignificant yet we panic when we get a few inches of rain lol
For the most part it's pretty hot here three fourths of the year since most of what surrounds my city is desert. The winter is pretty nice though we rarely get snow (and when we do everyone goes crazy) or rain for that matter. When we get heavy rain people freak out and there's flooding. It's pretty hilarious when you think of comparing it to a city like seattle that gets so much rain the amount we get here is pretty insignificant yet we panic when we get a few inches of rain lol
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Oh my goodness has it been raining today and its still cascading like the Niagara Falls with temperature hovering around 19C w/ 99% RH and Southerly winds at 19m/sec.
methodistgirl
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Here it's sunshine at 32 degrees. I envy those who live in the tropics
right now. It's not officially winter yet and all ready I'm sick of this
cold weather.
judy tooley
right now. It's not officially winter yet and all ready I'm sick of this
cold weather.
judy tooley
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Currently overcast and 19C w/ 79% RH and calm.
Tûrwethiel
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Weird. Yesterday we were bashed about by very heavy rain and strong wind. Looked like a cyclone on the radar to me! It was cold and probably around 22, 23C tops. Today we're in for 34C with more wind and they're predicting 24C for tomorrow.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Currently overcast and 22C w/ 99% RH and calm with heavy rains forecast for tonight.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Currently downpouring and 19C w/ 99% RH and SW'erlies @ 9m/sec.
Buchpteclare
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The sun is shining!
But - it's a cool -21C (about 7F) this morning with a wind chill closer to -30 at times. It's a terrific day for some winter photographs. The trees are covered with snow and a crystal like film of ice. It's far from comfortable for the folks in the north eastern states - they had a severe ice storm. Wide spread power failures from New York to New Hampshire....ow the forecast here is for above freezing temps over the next few days. Sheesh!
But - it's a cool -21C (about 7F) this morning with a wind chill closer to -30 at times. It's a terrific day for some winter photographs. The trees are covered with snow and a crystal like film of ice. It's far from comfortable for the folks in the north eastern states - they had a severe ice storm. Wide spread power failures from New York to New Hampshire....ow the forecast here is for above freezing temps over the next few days. Sheesh!
