Oh, the weather outside is...

[Arakhor]

Is that the case all year in Normandy?

 

[Zkribbler]

Highs this coming week: 30 C, give or take a degree. Rain or thunderstorms all week, except partially cloudy days on Tues & Wed.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Highs this coming week: 30 C, give or take a degree. Rain or thunderstorms all week, except partially cloudy days on Tues & Wed.

Awww, i'm stuck with 7 C and rain.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is that the case all year in Normandy?

My friend in Le Havre just sent me this today: "The weather is just awful today: dull and grey skies. What a contrast with yesterday!"

Sunny and cool (50 F) in NM today. Just like yesterday and it is what we expect tomorrow. And the nextday and the next day. Most days are sunny; only the temperature changes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Temperatures now seems to have stabilised under the zero mark, but that doesn't help if there's no snow falling from the sky. I'll give it another couple of weeks but come December I want some goddamn snow!

You can have what's on my balcony and in the parking lot. There's some snow on the rooftops of the rowhouses across the parking lot from me, but I'm not going to climb up there to get it for you.

All the snow on my balcony wouldn't make a decent-sized snowball right now. There was more, but it either melted or blew away.

It's the middle of November, so it's cold, grey and miserable. I didn't expect, however, that it would be -2 yesterday morning and stay that way for a few hours!

-2 isn't bad. It's -7 here now, with wind chill. Hopefully Monday won't be as cold as the Weather Network says, because I have to go out that day.

 

[stfoskey12]

Thank goodness our fire season is over here. We had an early snow this year (in September) and that took care of the worst of it. There were other fires last month in a different area - human caused, as some <monumentally ignorant individual> tossed a cigarette out onto a grassy area. Next thing you know, several ranches were burned down (was heartbreaking to see the photos of animal skeletons, as some had absolutely no chance of outrunning the flames) and a town had to evacuate.

We've never had anything as bad as the Fort McMurray wildfire or the ones near Santa Rosa recently, as they're mostly just grass fires. Back in February tho we had one where I could smell smoke and the sun looked red even in the early afternoon. It was only in the 50s F today (low 10s C), as we got a cold front last night.

 

[Snerk]

You can have what's on my balcony and in the parking lot. There's some snow on the rooftops of the rowhouses across the parking lot from me, but I'm not going to climb up there to get it for you.

All the snow on my balcony wouldn't make a decent-sized snowball right now. There was more, but it either melted or blew away.

I'll take it, every inch counts! Here there's a 10cm or so layer of condensed icy snow that's not useful for anything. Give me a good 0.5m of powder and we're in business.

 

[Birdjaguar]

First frost of the winter last night and half the leaves on our huge trees out front came down. To rake or let the winter winds do there work? That is the question.
The rest are still green.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Apparently it's going to get back in the 90's in time for Thanksgiving. Thank god I finally have AC.

 

[stfoskey12]

First frost of the winter last night and half the leaves on our huge trees out front came down. To rake or let the winter winds do there work? That is the question.
The rest are still green.

That's weird. Here some trees are still mostly green even with the three freezes we've had so far, but most have turned colors and are losing leaves or are already bare. Last year some deciduous trees stayed green well into December; I wonder if that will happen again.

 

[Birdjaguar]

That's weird. Here some trees are still mostly green even with the three freezes we've had so far, but most have turned colors and are losing leaves or are already bare. Last year some deciduous trees stayed green well into December; I wonder if that will happen again.

You are pretty much due east of me about 500 miles so I'm not surprised. Our big trees are fruitless mulberries and most years they drop all their leaves over about 48 hours after the first frost. Generally they are all yellow or brown by then. But not this year. Half are green. We'll see if those fall tonight or tomorrow. I expect them to linger into December.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'll take it, every inch counts! Here there's a 10cm or so layer of condensed icy snow that's not useful for anything. Give me a good 0.5m of powder and we're in business.

Sorry, there isn't that much.

It's supposed to cold and snowy this week, though, so maybe by Friday.

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently it's going to get back in the 90's in time for Thanksgiving. Thank god I finally have AC.

That's just nuts. 30-degree temperature and above should be reserved exclusively for the height of summer.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That's just nuts. 30-degree temperature and above should be reserved exclusively for the height of summer.

Yeah it's a heat wave. I forgot which mechanism is causing (Santa Anna winds maybe?) but it's something that happens every few years here according to the weather reporters.

 

[stfoskey12]

That's just nuts. 30-degree temperature and above should be reserved exclusively for the height of summer.

We hit 31 C last February in Oklahoma, but that's the fourth highest February temperature ever there, so it's pretty unusual. On the flip side it got down to -20 C in February 2011, but I lived in North Carolina at the time, so I missed it.

Also, interesting fact: part of Norman was hit by a weak tornado about a month ago, but luckily it caused little damage.

 

[Arakhor]

It is raining so hard outside that the weather is almost drowning out the TV!

 

[Birdjaguar]

We are scheduled for a record high 68 degrees for Thanksgiving Day. It will be sunny as usual.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

We are scheduled for a record high 68 degrees for Thanksgiving Day. It will be sunny as usual.

I expected New Mexico to have significantly higher temperatures than that!

 

[Birdjaguar]

I expected New Mexico to have significantly higher temperatures than that!

Most people think that New Mexico is just like Phoenix. It is not. Most of NM has four distinct seasons with the mountains getting snow in winter. In Albuquerque winter lows get down into the teens regularly. Summer highs are usually in the 90s with a couple of weeks where some days might go over 100. My house is at over a mile above sea level; that is as high as Denver. Well, Denver is actually higher now that marijuana is legal. Our two distinguishing weather characteristics are: lots of sunshine and little rain.

 

[Berzerker]

we're supposed to hit 77 tomorrow... one more nice weekend for golf

you're up fairly high there in NM, I remember driving thru Albuquerque...