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Compared to last year, it's been cooler this Summer than last year. It's also been wetter than anything your dirty little mind could imagine. Last year was dryer than your dirty little mind could imagine with record highs. This year, while hot, cloud cover has kept the heat knocked down a few degrees. Last year I remember riding in the evening around 5:30 pm and it felt like was riding through an oven. This time, it's all about the soup.
Guam sunset today, during rainy season...
Beautiful pics Bubba. Guam looks great.
The weather in NYC so far has been similar to what Charles describes. Everytime I watch the news, I can barely see more than a couple of miles on the cam behind the reporters. Sometimes the haze and murk limit things to less than 1/2 a mile.
Here, rainy until a month ago, then mostly dry, cool and sunny. The typical afternoon gets partly cloudy as thermals form the cloud cover over the Catskills and they blow over the Hudson Valley until sunset when things clear up again. Today is a typical example of what happens when it does rain. Rain goes to the north and south, but usually misses us in the middle.
Guam looks great alright but what's that thing that looks like cloth hanging on the tower? Anyway, if you can see a mile in New York it's an exceptionally clear day. When I lived up north in the highest part of Union my kitchen window faced east so every morning if it wasn't raining I would greet the sunrise over Newark and Manhattan. That is at least an hour or so after the sun rose above the horizon, it still had a couple thousand feet to go before rising above the nearly impenetrable soup. The morning flight into Newark from San Juan would come in on a normal glide slope, then as it approached the airport would bounce a few times as the pilot adjusted for a steeper angle, finally it punched a hole and disappeared into the Stygian darkness under a brightly lit sky. If the lower level of the atmosphere above the city were any thicker the planes would crash on impact.
Now that I live about 40 miles to the south on the shoreline I have a different perspective, a little less dramatic but a considerably wider view. Standing on the beach looking to my right (south) I can see mile after mile after mile of clear blue sky and ahead to the east out to sea there are all these little dots, pleasure craft and on the horizon the longer dashes that barely move, large ships going to and from the Port of New York and surrounds. Looking to my left is another story altogether, the shoreline disappears into what looks like someone having taken a piece of charcoal and smeared the horizon for miles out to sea. Ships coming and going have reinforced bows like ice breakers to penetrate the barrier. Occasionally I hear a bang and the scream of tortured metal when a captain doesn't adjust the angle of approach and scrapes sideways like the Titanic did the iceberg.
"Rain goes to the north and south, but usually misses us in the middle."
And for good reason, storms are deflected by the dome too so some bounce north, some bounce south, and some bigger ones split down the middle. You still live close enough for them to miss you, they hit hard and deflect at a wide angle. When it rains in New York it's always accompanied by lightning punching holes allowing the rain to come through. You know that storms in the area have more than their share of lightning and that's why. Now you know, when you live under the dome all you can see is up but from my perspective outside and at a distance I can see them hammering their way in, some even use a chisel.
I'm sure you've heard them say it never rains in southern California. Same thing, bigger dome. Los Angeles County is in a bowl surrounded by hills so the soup collects in it and being thicker than normal air prevents storms from entering the bowl. They slide in off the Pacific, deflect up the hills and keep right on sliding over the valley like a bowl of fruit salad sealed with Saran Wrap. That's why they call it La La Land, FRUIT SALAD you dope!
Then there is Da Bowl, channel 6 where NOTHING penetrates...........
Parts of this story are true, the rest has been changed to protect the innocent. (Cue Dragnet theme.)
Rain let up this evening. It wasn't a hard rain but since the ground was already super saturated ...
Lol,, That cloth hanging on the tower is a Guam flag. There was no wind and dark, so I can see that it would look strange.. Usually its straight out because of the wind.
Finally had a dry (ish) streak. No rain for 12 days straight and the lawn finally dried out enough to mow. Now I need to take down all the other plants around the yard that went rogue. Normally I'd be able to prune or shear them but this time I need a chainsaw.
We'll take the rain. It's been too dry here and our lawn was dying until last night.
It rained fairly hard, but we are still being in the rain department.
The farmers are complaining about the lack of rain.
Leaves began falling a couple of weeks ago, a far cry from last year when it began over 2 months later. About 10% of the trees are crimson from a few hard frosts we've already had. Low was about 34°F a few days ago (2°C). Definitely already looking like Fall here.
Europe and Russia had a cold winter, and colder and wetter spring as normal, end of May someone pulled a switch and summer arrived with a vengeance, hot record breaking and very dry, that lasted till the first week in Septemnr when we got some needed rain, still 8 inches short here for the normal yearly rain we get..
Sunny start this morning, cold 7C at night 18 C in the daytime.
No heating on here, still 21 C in the house because it is very well isolated.
It has become a sport to see how long i can get without putting the gasfires on here, won't happen yet, have some added alternative heating like kerosene lamps and kerosene stove for cooking special meatdishes, they add a bunch of heat and kerosene doesn't smell, just needs some ventilation.
But ventilation is standard here just will have to pick up some kerosene this week, 40 liters ( 11 gallons) will do for the hard winter.
We don't have to fear for electricity loss because all cables are underground, no breaking there.
Natural gas heating never let us down, so no problems there as well, and even if, the kerosene stove and lamps could heat up the living room enough to keep it warm just in case ( and make a nice stew too ) ;)
We'll just have to see what the winter brings if it will be another cold one like the last 5 ones or not.
Checked the car out and readied it for the winter period, shops are 400 yards away so no problem there.
Let it rip ;)
This September has felt like most of the Summer, sans rain.
Last year the trees here didn't start to change colour till late December and it wasn't till well into January that they were down from the trees. Even the 150+ mph winds and tornadoes from Sandy couldn't budge the leaves. This year the trees are losing their leaves fast. I suspect we'll be seeing our first snowstorm very soon.
The june, july and august hot temps and drought let the leaves turn brown and yellow in the first days of September, 2 months earlier.
Can't say a thing about winter, all the big shots expect a colder as normal winter in europe, but that long range forecasting is mostly doubtfull at best.
I prepared for the winter, did the garden, antenná's satellite dish and motor, prepped the car bought 40 liters kerosine for the kerosine lamps and the stove.
Have road salt for my garden path, and the rest we'll have to see...
40 litres of kerosene... that probably broke the bank!!
Nope, for heating the low tax tariff applies 2 x 20 liter tanks are 50 euro or just under 70 Bucks.
Specially extra low sulphur and low aromatic kerosene you can't smell the lamps or stove burning, ideal for in the house.
Maybe a week or so from peak right now. Nearly 1/2 of the foliage has changed. Temps in the 80s all week and no rain for about two weeks - very unusual. Hasn't happened for at least two years. Get the feeling that this is the calm before the storm?
Days in the 80s and nights in the low 60s upper 50s.
"Get the feeling that this is the calm before the storm?"
AH CHADAAAP! We had enough of that chit from the 22nd to the 31st a year ago so keep your feelings to yourself... peas?
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talk of winter storm for north plains already via KMGH in Denverr
Low 70s again plz
80s with summertime-esque humidity is not helping my running times.
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Thanks to the "shutdown," many systrms used by NOAA to warn people of severe weather are not in operation at this time. Should bring us back to the 1960s if it goes on for much longer.
Weeelll, there is this global warming thing that has been mostly ignored for the last half century or so...
I doubt if Mother Nature is a one-trick pony in any case...
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As if this week wasn't active enough, the next couple of days will see Tropical Storm (potentially Hurricane) Karen making landfall on the northern Gulf Coast, a major severe weather outbreak across Iowa and southern Minnesota, and the first major blizzard of the year in the upper Plains.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1...and-a-blizzard
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50+ MPH Santa Ana winds, single-digit humidity and a Red Flag Wildfire Warning here this weekend. Lovely.
Sometimes they last for 10+ miles. :spin:Quote:
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People on QRZ should be thrilled.Quote:
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Past peak for foliage here. Forecast for tonite 31°F and flurries are already falling in the Catskills. It was 34°F last night.
Hopefully winter will not last until the end of April this time. We still had snow on the ground until the last week of April this spring.
We went from days in the 70s with nights in the low 60s to days in the 50s and nights in the low 30s.
Varies greatly around here with the rolling hills. The weather station in one part of town might say 40 while 2 miles away it might be 32. If you've ever ridden down the road on a bike or with the windows cracked and felt a sudden change in air temperature then you know what I'm talking about.
The rolling hills of the region, which is part of and just below the foothills of the Appalachian Chain, have often been said to be reminiscent of the rolling hills of the Scotland and Ireland. For this, and other reasons, there is a rich Scots/Irish heritage celebrated here. Matter of fact, there are families that claim to have been here since the late 1600s.
Up the roof tomorrow, checking out the stuff, monday a 60 knot wind expected here, gusting might even be more.
Damn thise autumn storms...
Looks like another 90 degree day, followed by a 65 degree night. Ho-hum.
25 degrees? Really? I blame Canada therefore it's Ted Cruz's fault.
♪ they're not even a real country anyway ♫
Well past peak foliage here. Had a 10 minute 60-70 MPH burst of wind yesterday morning. Sounded like a train with white sheets of rain falling sideways. Should be in the upper 20s by Monday morning. I hold out hope for a month or two of cold followed by above normal temps in Feb. The locals said the 8 or 10 feet of snow we got last winter was lower than usual. I think we'll get the usual this year. Got snowed in for 3 weeks last winter too.
Clear, sunny and 62°F (17°C) here. You know—another perfect day in San Diego. Yawn.
I've felt that simply walking through wooded areas. I'll go from higher ground to low ground on a hot day and as I step into the low ground notice a definite change in temperature (cooler).Quote:
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I've also felt that sudden temperature drop during approaching severe thunderstorms. It's hot and humid and then a hard blast of cold downdraft wind hits you that is much cooler than the surrounding air it's displacing. Of course that could also be a bad sign. That hot air being displaced rises and if the thunderstorm is spinning all hell can break loose.
When I was up in the Adirondacks a couple decades ago I got snowed in for two months until the spring thaw. There was no way in or out. When I retire and head up to the Yukon I expect to be snowed in regularly for the entire winter season which lasts quite long up there. Well, it still beats dodging falling trees in the hurricanes and having to take shelter from the tornadoes down here.Quote:
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Just a typical week here in the United States. The blizzard is great news for the ski season.Quote:
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