Polar f'n vortex...

[N2CHX]

So last winter was like an entire effing YEAR long (or so it seemed). Now this.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/weather/polar-vortex-in-septembers-forecast-20140806

"The polar vortex – that extremely cold air that swirls above the North Pole – may make a brief visit to the Northeast next month, AccuWeather.com reported Wednesday.“There could be a significant shot of chilly air that comes across the Great Lakes region and into the interior Northeast sometime in mid to late September,” said Paul Pastelok, the lead long-range forecaster for the State College, Pa.-based weather forecasting service.

The polar vortex, you may remember, led many local school districts to exceed their annual allotment of snow days last winter because temperatures and the wind chill were considered too dangerously cold for children to be outside. It also was blamed for copious amounts of lake-effect snow.

AccuWeather has even more bad news for fair weather fans: El Niño, the flow of unusually warm surface waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that changes rain and temperature patterns, will debut early this winter, fueling early snow across the Northeast.

“December could get kind of wild due to the very active southern jet stream that is going to provide the moisture for bigger snowstorms. The Northeast could have a couple of big storms in December and early January,” Pastelok said."

The one child whom I thought would never cave on moving somewhere else, last night while watching Portlandia says to me "I wouldn't mind moving there." So... I may have finally convinced the kids to leave this area for somewhere warmer. Music to my ears. Plans are to visit the NW next summer. If this winter is as bad as they're saying it's going to be, we're outta here. I can't take another winter like the last one.

[N2NH]

Yep. Last Winter was the coldest anyone can remember here. The Winter before was one of the snowiest in memory here. I agree, another Winter like that would be hard to take, but no matter what, it beats living in Mr. Sharpton's Neighborhood. I don't think we get as much cold or snow as you guys do, but here on the mountain, we do get a lot more of both than in the valleys. There are times the winds are pretty incredible too.

[PA5COR]

Just for reflection, we had no winter, not one day of frost or even a light night frost, no snow etc, matter of fact temps were too high of 8 monhs in a row from December till july.
The winter before that we had a few fet of snow, some - 12 to -15 C kids could ice skate on the lakes and rivers here, what is normal here in a winter.
I went from 1400 Cubic meter natural gas use for heating cooking shower etc to 700 cubic meter.
Almost never used the hearth in the livingroom, I like + 18 C as fine temp here.
Just the heating upstairs was used for my son when he was in his bedroom computering.
I blame the same as you guys the changing weather patterns...

[K7SGJ]

Come to sunny Arizona, Kelli. No worries about snow in the high desert. Well, maybe a light dusting once or twice a year where I am, but it's a dry snow.

[VE7DCW]

Come to sunny Arizona, Kelli. No worries about snow in the high desert. Well, maybe a light dusting once or twice a year where I am, but it's a dry snow.

Eddie...... sort of like the idea that it gets to a million degrees in the desert,but it's a dry heat? :mrgreen:

[K7SGJ]

Eddie...... sort of like the idea that it gets to a million degrees in the desert,but it's a dry heat? :mrgreen:

Exactamundo. I was putting some white latex roofing goop on one of the cargo containers the other day, and it was like working on the surface of the sun, but it's a dry sun.

That stuff not only seals leaks, but it really reflects a lot of heat, even at 0600.

[WØTKX]

El Nino seems to have tweaked Colorado back to almost normal. Cooler and wetter. We needed it.

Crazy weather with the changes in the jet stream, winds are now diverted to through the Bering Strait?

Wild.

Jet Stream So Weak Winds Are Running From Pacific to Atlantic Across the North Pole (http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/jet-stream-so-weak-winds-are-running-from-pacific-to-atlantic-across-the-north-pole/)

n the central Pacific, along a band above 20 North Latitude and about 500 miles west of Hawaii, a broad stream of easterly winds yesterday took a turn toward the north. The wind field was then pulled into a long frontal boundary spinning out from a large low pressure system off Irkutsk, Russian and driven on toward the Western Aleutian Island Chain.The winds continued their sprint northward through the Bering Strait before being again captured by a low, this time over the East Siberian Sea. Sped on by this second nudge, the winds, running at 15-25 mph, spilled over the North Pole and into a third low spinning just north of Svalbard. This system shoved the winds southward over the North Atlantic and finally into a cyclone just north of England where the winds finally turned eastward, returning to the prevailing west-east global flow.
This is an epic journey in defiance of typical and prevailing weather patterns spanning thousands of miles and three oceans. It is decidedly not normal.

http://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/image3.jpg?w=759&h=1013

HOLY POPTECH! ;)

[W2NAP]

Just for reflection, we had no winter, not one day of frost or even a light night frost, no snow etc, matter of fact temps were too high of 8 monhs in a row from December till july.
The winter before that we had a few fet of snow, some - 12 to -15 C kids could ice skate on the lakes and rivers here, what is normal here in a winter.
I went from 1400 Cubic meter natural gas use for heating cooking shower etc to 700 cubic meter.
Almost never used the hearth in the livingroom, I like + 18 C as fine temp here.
Just the heating upstairs was used for my son when he was in his bedroom computering.
I blame the same as you guys the changing weather patterns...

id rather enjoy not having a "winter" in winter. -20F ain't very fun.

[KG4CGC]

I'd like to move further South. Island Life. Vape Shop KW, a bike and some really nice Winter sun.

[K7SGJ]

I'd like to move further South. Island Life. Vape Shop KW, a bike and some really nice Winter sun.

Like, Antarctica?

[W3WN]

Unless I get a divorce... and one was painful enough, thank you very much... the only way I'll move from Pittsburgh is if the Pirates move to another city. And even then, I don't think the boss will want to leave her extended family behind.

[n2ize]

So last winter was like an entire effing YEAR long (or so it seemed). Now this.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/weather/polar-vortex-in-septembers-forecast-20140806

"The polar vortex – that extremely cold air that swirls above the North Pole – may make a brief visit to the Northeast next month, AccuWeather.com reported Wednesday.“There could be a significant shot of chilly air that comes across the Great Lakes region and into the interior Northeast sometime in mid to late September,” said Paul Pastelok, the lead long-range forecaster for the State College, Pa.-based weather forecasting service.

The polar vortex, you may remember, led many local school districts to exceed their annual allotment of snow days last winter because temperatures and the wind chill were considered too dangerously cold for children to be outside. It also was blamed for copious amounts of lake-effect snow.

AccuWeather has even more bad news for fair weather fans: El Niño, the flow of unusually warm surface waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that changes rain and temperature patterns, will debut early this winter, fueling early snow across the Northeast.

“December could get kind of wild due to the very active southern jet stream that is going to provide the moisture for bigger snowstorms. The Northeast could have a couple of big storms in December and early January,” Pastelok said."

The one child whom I thought would never cave on moving somewhere else, last night while watching Portlandia says to me "I wouldn't mind moving there." So... I may have finally convinced the kids to leave this area for somewhere warmer. Music to my ears. Plans are to visit the NW next summer. If this winter is as bad as they're saying it's going to be, we're outta here. I can't take another winter like the last one.

Sounds like good news to me. :) I am thinking there is a God after all. I hope this is true. To me it is a blessing.

[W7XF]

Like, Antarctica?

Why sounds like a fine place for the Barkeep!

And here's why. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why,_Arizona)

[K7SGJ]

Why sounds like a fine place for the Barkeep!

And here's why. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why,_Arizona)

At least there is hope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope,_Arizona

https://forums.hamisland.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=12847&stc=1

[W7XF]

At least there is hope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope,_Arizona

https://forums.hamisland.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=12847&stc=1

Or here: Zip. Zilch. Nada. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Arizona)

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[n2ize]

El Nino seems to have tweaked Colorado back to almost normal. Cooler and wetter. We needed it.

Crazy weather with the changes in the jet stream, winds are now diverted to through the Bering Strait?

Wild.

Jet Stream So Weak Winds Are Running From Pacific to Atlantic Across the North Pole (http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/jet-stream-so-weak-winds-are-running-from-pacific-to-atlantic-across-the-north-pole/)




http://robertscribbler.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/image3.jpg?w=759&h=1013

HOLY POPTECH! ;)

Natch !!! It's just a natural cycle. :snicker:

[KG4CGC]

Why sounds like a fine place for the Barkeep!

And here's why. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why,_Arizona)

Nah. Even with all that attractive sand fishing, your teagagger goobenur kills the deal. Yes, we have a teagagger goobenur as does Floriduh, but, KW is like a different country with lots of tourists who are in need of services. Like American made e-cigs and liquids.

[K7SGJ]

Nah. Even with all that attractive sand fishing, your teagagger goobenur kills the deal. Yes, we have a teagagger goobenur as does Floriduh, but, KW is like a different country with lots of tourists who are in need of services. Like American made e-cigs and liquids.

She's on her way out; not running again. :bbh:

[W7XF]

She's on her way out; can't run again. :bbh:

Fixed, Eddie. The beyotch is term-limited out.

[K7SGJ]

Fixed, Eddie. The beyotch is term-limited out.

Tnx for the fix.

Sometimes, the term limits are way too long.

[W7XF]

Tnx for the fix.

Sometimes, the term limits are way too long.

10 minutes was 9:59.999999999999999999 too long for her.

[n2ize]

So far this August has not been bad. While still hot it is not early as oppressive as it was back in June and much of July. Nichts have been down in the 50's - low 60's and days have been in the 70's to the lower 80's. Better than temps in the 90's plus high humidity.

[NQ6U]

Fixed the sign for the good-but-semi-literate people of Hope, AZ:

http://i.imgur.com/dTaozKG.png

[N2NH]

This from the NY Post on the coming fall-winter:


Looking backward, June was the wettest June nationally since 1989 (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/extremes/201406.gif), even as 34% of the lower 48 suffered drought conditions, the NOAA said. Worldwide, average land and ocean temperatures in June were the highest since records began in 1880.

So, of course that means we're getting cooler too. This is the vacillating temperatures predicted by the crude climate models they had in the mid 70s. Hopefully they were wrong about the avalanche effect but it looks like they were right. Right now methane is going into the atmosphere from the newly thawed out Arctic Ocean and Siberia. Methane is five times more powerful at raising temperatures than carbon is. And the chances of stopping this by changing our ways are slim and none at this point. LINK HERE. (http://nypost.com/2014/08/08/brace-yourself-for-another-polar-vortex-in-september/)

http://i59.tinypic.com/ek5hly.jpg

[K7SGJ]

Fixed the sign for the good-but-semi-literate people of Hope, AZ:

http://i.imgur.com/dTaozKG.png

Thank you. That was done by the same guy that paints the yellow center stripe on the roads in Texas, right over the armadillo road kill.

[n2ize]

We're dead.

[KK4AMI]

We had a really cool wet summer in Virginia. My tomatoes and watermelon grew really well this year. Plus I'm still cutting grass once a week. Usually by August, the lawn is brown and I cut twice a month.

[KG4CGC]

Temps been all over the map in late late July and all of August so far.

[K7SGJ]

We had a really cool wet summer in Virginia. My tomatoes and watermelon grew really well this year. Plus I'm still cutting grass once a week. Usually by August, the lawn is brown and I cut twice a month.

This year wasn't too bad here. Only lost two tomato plants. The peppers, onions, and cucumber plants went nutz this year. Lots of good salsa, pickles, and fresh salads.

[W3NCH]

Thank you for fixing that sign! I was about to have an aneurysm. ;)

[NQ6U]

Thank you for fixing that sign! I was about to have an aneurysm. ;)

Yeah, me too. I tried to ignore it for a while but it finally got to me.

[kb2vxa]

I remember when winters were a lot colder with more snow than the last, nobody heard about a polar vortex and Al Roker was just being born. What does he roke? Is it painful? Then came the '70s and things started warming up and Al Gore wasn't even getting started yet. One cold winter with a few more snowflakes and everybody freaks out forgetting all about the one a few years ago that froze everything but the open sea and had people living in one bedroom with a space heater and the thermostat down to conserve expensive fuel. So we get a cold snap once in a while, just rub two Boy Scouts together and light a fire. Qual es su problema senores?

Movin' to Montana soon,
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Jus' me and the pygmy pony
On skis, ridin' across the borderline.
With my zircon encrusted tweezers
Pickin' up snowflakes!
Pickin' 'em up
An' waxin' 'em down..........

[WØTKX]

http://www.oskarsvensson.com/Dr.Zipe_Healer.jpg

[W5BRM]

Fixed the sign for the good-but-semi-literate people of Hope, AZ:

http://i.imgur.com/dTaozKG.png


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

[NQ6U]

Weather or not their word crimes depends on you're perspective.

[N2NH]

Weather or not their word crimes depends on you're perspective.

Its academic.

[kb2vxa]

That's what happens when "no child left behind" graduates illiterate... morans.

[NQ6U]

That's what happens when "no child left behind" graduates illiterate... morans.

I went too Montessori skool.

[K7SGJ]

I went too Montessori skool.


That's two bad. I know too other people that went there, to.

[N2NH]

That's two bad. I know too other people that went there, to.

Ju du?

[ad4mg]

That's two bad. I know too other people that went there, to.

You misspelled "their". :)

[NQ6U]

You misspelled "their". :)

No, he misspelled "they're".

[W7XF]

No, he misspelled "they're".

Back to the nunnery, Your HolyBushtitness!