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Daw

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After some hard talks about politics and history some more relaxed talks may be seen as a relief. And there is nothing better at that than talking some weather, right?

So, whenever wherever some noteworthy weather conditions occur, it might be a good idea to come here and post something about it, I think.

Now, I got this through corporate mail: "...As you no doubt are aware there is a major winter storm hitting the Mid-Atlantic region of the US on Friday..." - and despite them having no doubt I was not aware.

Is anyone here from the Mid-Atlantic region of the US (and not yet washed away or buried alive under tons of snow) to update me on this, please? Pictures and vivid emotional (just avoid strong language) descriptions are welcomed.
 
Right after Christmas, it rained here for 8 days straight. Not just pittle-pattle either, it really poured and thunder stormed hard for that full week+. A major highway through town (I-44) was completely flooded and they had to divert the highway traffic directly into the town which more or less paralyzed our town. Plus, lots of other backroads flooded and/or were washed away, which was another huge disruption.

The most aggravating part though is that this is not the first time I-44 has been shut down and re-routed through my town yet the city government/DoT has not come up with a good plan to re-route without paralyzing the whole town. It actually took me a half hour to cross a single street, such was the paralysis.
 
Our winter has been amazing, temperatures above 0C all December and no snow until a couple days into January. It's 1 degree right now, which is laughable, in previous years the January temperature usually goes down to at least -10C, and often frequents -15C or colder, usually much colder with windchill. It's not unusual for it to be -20 or colder.

Bring on more climate change, I guess, and thanks again El Nino (Spanish for The Nino)
 
The weather here continues to be paradise. Last night was warm and dry, I spent part of the evening on a rock watching the full moon, the clouds, the bay, all the cities on the bay. So peaceful. Gentle, warm winter breeze. The rain has been heavy but soft, really nice to catch under the big gazebo in the park a mile up from my house.
 
warpus said:
Our winter has been amazing, temperatures above 0C all December and no snow until a couple days into January. It's 1 degree right now, which is laughable, in previous years the January temperature usually goes down to at least -10C, and often frequents -15C or colder, usually much colder with windchill. It's not unusual for it to be -20 or colder.

Bring on more climate change, I guess, and thanks again El Nino (Spanish for The Nino)
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If that happened here, we'd pay for it in the spring. That's what happened in 1986 and 1987. The most insane blizzard we ever had here was in May. May 29, 1986, and it was the sort of blizzard you might expect to happen in December or January. At least the 1987 blizzard happened at a more sensible time of year, in March.

This winter has been a pretty normal one - warm days, frigid days, nothing too excessive. Mind you, the last snow we got was one I'm glad I didn't have to clear away.
 
The past 11 months here in southern New England has been unusually warm and dry. It's been a mild winter so far.
 
Daw said:
After some hard talks about politics and history some more relaxed talks may be seen as a relief. And there is nothing better at that than talking some weather, right?
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Wrong!! Extreme weather may well be the leading cause of death in the 21st century! :nuke::aargh::eekdance:
 
The snow storm you had at the weekend is now dumping rain on Ireland and Britain.

The ground is already saturated from a very wet winter so there will probably be more flooding.

The wind was rocking my little car so I slowed down on my way to work this morning.
 
@Birgjaguar:

Looks like fun. "Hey, everybody, look! It's been snowing overnight, lets make snowmen and play snowballs and go sleighing! Yay!"

The videos like the two below (and the second especially) look like fun up to the 3/4 of them, and then they look like somebody will need a shovel. Btw, do people use winter tires in those parts of America? The weather the videos start in looks like there's normally no need for winter tires, but then it really turns into disaster with snow.

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The wind was rocking my little car so I slowed down
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Last time I had such experience I was piloting a truck toddler I rented to bring some stuff to my mom's country house, and I was on my way back with the cargo hold empty, and with the side wind, and the windage area, and the little weight combined, I felt very much like Dorothy must have felt right before being carried away to the Land of Oz.
 
Particularly warm winter here in southern Spain. Short sleeves and even some beach-worthy days in last Christmas. Not very normal.
 
We are having it exactly the way Warpus described it: the snow settled only as late as a couple of days into January, but over less than 3 weeks since then we've had over 45 cm (1'5") of snow, which was reported as more than the average dose for a whole winter (which I doubt as it does not match my impression, but they know better probably). It was short of -20oC last week, -12oC when I checked my thermometer yesterday, -8oC right now and we're expecting positive temperatures by Thursday. Then it will probably go all the way down again (as it usually does) and then up, then down, and so on until we get nauseous of that swinging (as we usually do).

In the corner of the office backyard parking, they piled up the snow they gathered from the parking, and here's the picture (spoilered because of embarrassingly disastrous quality as my phone is not really suited to take pictures).

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Experts rule out the reptile coruñesa reached the beach from the sea, whereas the water temperature at this time of year is especially low so he could survive. The scenarios focus on the animal she could have escaped from a place where he was in captivity before emptying into a river and, hence, on the sea with strong waves of the past few days have dragged his body up Galician beach.
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The poor croc wanted only go home...
 
I prefer to think it came swimming from Florida because climate change, the end of the world and all that stuff. It is funnier.
 
There is not cocrodiles in north Africa AFAIK, it should come from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa or from upper nyle in Egypt. In both cases the political implications would be too complex and would derail this peaceful thread.
 
It’s raining here in Devon again but there are worse places.

From BBC

After 85 days of rain, the sun is finally shining in a Pembrokeshire village.

Miserable residents of Eglwyswrw, near Cardigan, have had to endure the wet weather since 26 October.

The village was five days short of beating the British record which is 89 days set in Scotland in 1923.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-35360798

I have only seen frost once this winter. The temperature is staying over 5C nearly every night some are not going below 10C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gbvrpf1yf#?tab=fiveDay&fcTime=1453766400

Note the yellow rain warning;)
 
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