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Rain and 40º but tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and 65º.
Oh I'm hip to the weather there I grew up in Orange County, South Laguna to be precise and my 80+ year old parents still live there. There are a lot of things I don't mis about Southern Cal but the weather isn't one of them. The older I get the more attractive it is to move back home.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
Ah, a fellow native prune picker, I didn't realize that. Agreed, there are many things to dislike about SoCal but the climate makes up for a lot of warts. Oddly enough, even though Laguna is scarcely 100 miles north of San Diego, there's a noticeable improvement in the weather as you come down this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by ka4dpo
Everytime I look, the totals are going up. This map shows 24-30" of snow for Boston, and NYC is 24-30" too, particularly Long Island and Southern CT. We'd get 8-10" if it is true...
http://www.wunderground.com/data/ima...Total_Snow.gif
I think they're hedging their bets...
Brooklyn is going to get the worst of it. Already winds are whipping up big time along the shore
There really is a big difference, SD is milder both in summer and winter. Looks like we are going to be right between the two weather systems here in the DC area so we might get an inch of snow but it won't stick for long as temps warm up tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
The AccuWeather.com page to 'track the Blizzard'. Got 3" already, winds 30MPH and still coming down heavily.
Track the Blizzard Live on Radar
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc200...pace-storm.jpg
"Brooklyn is going to get the worst of it."
Always with the Brooklyn. (;->) Eh, I can understand fascination, the place does have a certain charm... and Cyndi Lauper.
They used to always play this on the first big snowstorm in NYC in the 70s-80s.
http://youtu.be/Pc3OnSQc48s
We got hit pretty hard here. Looks like at least 2 feet of snow and very hard winds. But, yes, Brooklyn got it worst. I was talking with a friend in Brooklyn. Just before his phone and power went out he was reporting sustained winds of 50-60 mph with gusts up to 80 mph. Snow was coming down 4-6 inches/hour and blowing into massive drifts. The Brooklyn Bridge was impassible due to the high cross winds coming in from Brooklyn.Quote:
Originally Posted by kb2vxa
Walked out the door and met a 3 foot drift. The walkway here is over 2 feet deep, maybe as much as 2-½ feet.
It's even quiet for the country. All you can hear are the birds complaining.
Hit a 8 foot drift covering the back door of the house. had to go out the front and dig it out. Took about 2 and a half hours to get the back of the house cleared. When i was a kid this would have kept us out of school for at least 2 days provided it happened on a weekday rather than a weekend.
Orco is coming.
Orco? WTF is it with the Weather channel and their names? I see where we're supposed to get another storm on Wednesday. Preliminary totals are the same as they were for this one. Time will tell. I might just run out of beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
I think the NWS comes up with the names. Just wonder how money changed hands in this case to give them names. Maybe they wanted Winter Storms to have a name distinctive enough that you can tell by hearing the name the difference between a Summer and Winter storm.
Nemo, Orco, what's the next one gonna be called? Poontang?
You know it won't be Pamela.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
Oh, so it is just a Weather Channel thing. In that case it's meaningless and should be discontinued.Quote:
BOSTON -- Meteorologists might not be sure whether the storm heading into the East Coast will drop 12 inches or 24, but they are sure about one thing – this storm is definitely, absolutely, not called Nemo.
But that’s what the Weather Channel has decided to call it, part of a policy announced in the fall in which the TV station will give names to winter storms so that people can more easily follow them.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/n...0,401412.story
I certainly hope so. "The wettest storm in recorded history!"Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
Such a funny little guy...Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//pict...pictureid=1901
"The New York mayor’s office has fully embraced “Nemo,” tweeting “Fun fact: There are 6,300 street miles in New York City to be plowed and salted -- that’s like going from NYC to LA and back."
That figures, Major Mikey is a TFC... Twit First Class. Fun fact??? Not for people on side streets in the outer boroughs who won't see pavement until spring.
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Originally Posted by NA4BH
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
I think that this is going to lead to 'product placement.' That is, I think that eventually, the Weather Channel will be selling these names to the highest corporate bidder to be put on their storm names list.
This could end up being the Oreo™ storm by next year. Color me suspicious.
Am I correct in saying that your U.S. weather people are now giving names to winter storms??Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
......stupidest thing i've ever seen....... a storm to remember named after a Disney cartoon.... I would've gone with Poontang myself.... :agree:
I guess that after one's power has been out for days and his roof has partially collapsed under the weight of snow accumulation, it's more of a consolation to imagine it was all just a passing visit from a friendly Disney character.
Not weather people, reality entertainment programming.Quote:
Originally Posted by VE7DCW
https://forums.hamisland.net/showthr...-Channel-Water
some serious snow here too, 1 inch on the ground ;) LOL
Edit, make that 2 inches and counting..
Why does everybody remember Nemo as a fish when I remember him as captain of the Nautilus? Cummon, I'm not THAT old! Frankly the storm fit the captain and not the fish. Speaking of Jules Verne momentarily, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea follows the same theme as Master Of The World, an attempt to bring world peace through use of superior weaponry. In both stories both ships and their mad captains meet their doom at the hands of their captives. There's a message here totally lost on a fish, even a flying fish won't get it.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea -- wasn't that a TV reality show?
It's HAARP !!! ;)
Nothing HAARP y about the full day of below freezing here....brrr
Last night was -2 F (-18C), today we are flirting with 50 F (+10C).Quote:
Originally Posted by PA5COR
I always liked that submarine but the leading edge surfaces are hardly hydrodynamic.
Good for keeping them goddamned giant squid offa the boat, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
I thought Nemo had a big lever to pull when squideses hugged the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
Nemo is no one. Or a Citroen.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...t_20100711.jpg
Thursdayy the remnants of Nemo will reach us, snow, then freezing rain, then rain will fall, and temps will go up above freezing.
Will be an interestng drive to the shooting club ;)
"I thought Nemo had a big lever to pull when squideses hugged the boat."
True, but the electric charge failed to repel it, they were forced to surface and dislodge the beast.
"Thursdayy the remnants of Nemo will reach us..."
The Nautilus struck a reef and sank, Nemo went down with it off Vulcania, his secret lair. By now the sub has rusted away so I'm not surprised his bones will wash up on shore come Thursday.
I think this spring/summer I am going to start naming thunderstorms.
How about one named "Sparky"?Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ize