Take this El' Nino and shove it.
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Take this El' Nino and shove it.
"What's that, Edgar?"
"Tornado warnings in San Diego."
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Originally Posted by K6BSO
"I don't think we are in Kansas anymore Toto" :scared:
Nope. They don't have waterspouts in Kansas.Quote:
Originally Posted by VE7DCW
http://i.imgur.com/B4IaK7p.jpg
IT'S COLD!
Been cold.
Wow! .......neat photo! ......we here on rare occasion will sometimes get water spouts form on the Strait of Georgia with unstable air masses aloft.They have tried to be politically correct by calling the straits the "Salish Sea" :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by K6BSO
Don't worry, when Trump becomes President, he'll deport El Niño.Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ize
Five inches of snow over an inch and a half of ice. Two pm yesterday it had been icing for a couple of hours when a large tree up the street came down. Eight poles in the neighborhood were replaced last night. Twelve hours without power. Twenty-nine hours without internet or even TV.
I started tuning around the FMBCB and AMBCB on a portable. Not one report of local conditions on the commercial stations. NOAA weather radio was useless in the situation as well. I would be interested in local reports and updates. Two meter repeaters were quiet. Need an updated scanner if I want to listen to public safety and work crews.
Twenty one degrees is the forecast for tonight. Thirty degrees last night in all the mess.
Forecast earlier in the week said maybe an inch.
Thursday night, we were in the "1 to 3 inches" belt.
Snow was supposed to start falling at 6 PM, then at 9 PM yesterday.
Snow started at 1 PM, very light. Really started coming down & sticking around 4 PM.
We ended up with 7 inches.
10, 15 miles South of us (KB3LIX's neck of the woods) had 18 inches, and the further South you went, the deeper it got.
10, 15 miles North of us... nothing.
An 80+ mile stretch of the Pa Turnpike was closed last night. It's still closed. Estimated 500 vehicles stranded. Several tractor trailers jackknifed, and once traffic stopped, the snow just piled on. They have no idea when they're going to get traffic moving again. Meanwhile, most of those vehicles have been stuck for over 24 hours -- no food, no water, no way off. And you figure some of them have run out of gas by now, as well...
Stuck on the westbound side is the bus carrying the Duquesne University men's basketball team home. Stuck on the eastbound side is the bus carrying the Temple University girl's gymnastics team home. Hmmmm......
Attachment 14483Got 30" at the qth here in northern virginia.
That's a lot of four letter word.
It snowed here for over 24 hrs. No ice though.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. South wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
We got clobbered here, with dual monitors I was watching movies on one and NWS Doppler radar on the other. I had the scanner on in the background listening to the usual stuff, nothing moving except for emergency services, even flights at Lakehurst NAS and McGuire AFB were suspended. Things are starting to move today, sort of, I heard them digging New Jersey Transit trains out in Bay Head Yard, still nothing moving at 4:00pm. Thankfully power and heat stayed on and so did cable for my Internet and TV for those easily entertained by dreck. Anything can happen here at the Jerky Shore, but I half expected power to stay on because the 27KV 3 phase atom by wire feeders are well clear of trees and I'm only a block from the substation so I expected the 4800V 3 phase secondaries to hold up, I'm glad I was right. This was a rare event here at the shoreline and I'm glad of that too, if it happened every winter I'd move to SoCal the land of fruits and nuts where I'd easily fit in the can of mixed nuts and leave the fruits to do their own thing. Floriduh has the weather but not the climate, you know what I mean. Oh, the scanner has a 12V 7.5AH gel battery on float charge so it doesn't even notice a power failure, at least I'd have had something to listen to while I froze my ass off by the light of a candle.
You must run a really big linyear to need them kind of volts in yer shack!Quote:
Originally Posted by kb2vxa
Enough to knock him off his rocker?Quote:
Originally Posted by XE1/N5AL
That would explain a lot...Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
Storm was severe here. Massive snow drifts driven by 100 mph crosswinds across from Brooklyn. . Snowfall at a rate of 12 inches a minute along with intense lightning, thunder and frequent tornado's. Had to climb out to the roof with snowshoes to get out of the house at hurricane wind driven ice and snow at temperatures of -80 below zero.
Snowshoes? I thought it was barefoot, uphill. both ways... :hyper:Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ize
"You must run a really big linyear to need them kind of volts in yer shack!"
Naaa, I used to have a problem with lights dimming but not anymore. You may have noticed your hardware store was temporarily out of extension cords, I went around and bought them all. Then i plugged them end to end, all 96 million miles of them, tied a rock to the end and tossed it into the sun. You may now notice more "eclipses" than usual, when I key up the SUN dims!
Here's an update on the blizzard, it's all over. (;->) Now for something you DON'T know, its been fairly, just a bit warmer and it's melting thankfully. I used to like snowball fights, building snow forts and sledding, kids without sleds used big pieces of cardboard. Now that I'm a crusty old fart like most hams I HATE WINTER! I think I'll spare you the picture of the snow finger this time.
We had a nice little storm yesterday. About a half-inch (13mm) of rain and wind gusts of over 60mph (96kph). The ash tree on the property next door wasn't up to the challenge.
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It's that El Nino Bugaboo again Carl...... I saw a 200 year old Douglas Fir tree come down in a storm last year on a neighbour's house down the block....... oh the damage! It shows you have been getting the storms your way,we have been a little cool with not so much rain about 5 to 6 degrees Celsius as the daytime highs .......about freezing to about 2 degrees at night......last tiny bit of snow we had was in mid December,but you can see some pretty good accumulations on the hill tops at the higher elevations :yes:
Looking at an inch of rain here tomorrow on top of the three feet of snow that's still on the ground. It's gonna get mushy around here.
Years ago, I had a huge hickory tree that fell into my neighbor's yard during a big storm. Fortunately, it fell in the only direction that wouldn't cause any damage. Still, my neighbors couldn't open their sliding glass door with the pressure of the tree branch tips pushing against it. I imagine that their poor dog almost had a coronary when the tree fell. The dog was on a short chain that was staked into the ground, and the massive tree came down in such a way that the "Y" of the tree trunk hit the ground on both sides of the dog. Aside from the scare, the dog was completely unharmed!
We have been in the low 20 degrees Celsius as daytime highs under mainly sunny skies for about a week now.Spring hit us 6 weeks early and appears to have set the tone for our upcoming summer.........we broke 5 year old high temperature marks in the last days of March! ........here we go again! :yes:
Pollen
We smashed an old temperature record of 25.8 degrees set 4 years ago here in the Cowichan Valley today..........27.1 is the new record for April 18 and the month of April so far,the record we set 4 years ago beat one that stood for about 30 years..........I see the shape of things to come by the looks of it.......... :scared:
If the record temperatures keep going up at that rate, you guys will soon be able to fry bacon on the sidewalk! :)
50 inches of snow in two days of dumpage.
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Air quality warnings issued.
Well then, my new siggy line is perfect. :neener:
While here, it hit 87°F today. Eighty-fucking-seven degrees in mid-April. That's just wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by WØTKX
Had a VERY similar experience here today. I agree; it's just wrong.
Too damn hot!!!
Ah chaddap, ya got nuttin ta complain about, it could be worse: http://history1800s.about.com/od/cri...t-A-Summer.htm Then again it could be MUCH worse: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml
The weather here tonight reminds me of San Francisco—heavy marine layer and a west wind. I can smell the ocean even though I'm ten miles inland.
I'm sure that a good spray of Febreeze will take care of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by K6BSO
You'll need a tanker car of Febreeze at Dayton.Quote:
Originally Posted by W3WNI'm sure that a good spray of Febreeze will take care of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by K6BSO
Nah. I have good nose plugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ3N
And as long as I stay away from the old pharts and curmudgeons... think of them as the Walking Zed... I should be OK.
Well played sir!