Oh, the weather outside is...

[onejayhawk]

Cloudy, breezy cool day for Thanksgiving. The high was 55° F. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear and much warmer, maybe 75°. It's a pity. I was hoping for some rain this week. Now I need to water the vegetables.

J

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Berzerker: For many people Albuquerque is a pass thru. Next time you do pass through, let me know and I'll buy you lunch.

 

[Berzerker]

thx... looks like beautiful country...compared to Kansas anyway.

I actually prefer the Moab/Canyonlands region of southeast Utah, something about all those reddish rocks. But I'm stuck here now

 

[Kyriakos]

Currently the weather isn't bad; 10 degrees Celsius at night, at worst, which is fine. Around 15 at day.
I hope we won't have 10 consecutive days of <0 temperatures ALL DAY & snow. That was dreadful, and happened last year.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Then there is Verkhoyansk in Siberia. It's record high was +37.5 degrees Celsius in the summer and its record low was minus 67.6 degrees Celsius. Usually It ranges from Plus 20-30 degrees Celcius in the summer to around minus 50 degrees Celcius in the winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk

 

[Zkribbler]

thx... looks like beautiful country...compared to Kansas anyway.

I actually prefer the Moab/Canyonlands region of southeast Utah, something about all those reddish rocks. But I'm stuck here now

I dunno. I've heard of people in Kansas being swept up by tornadoes and being deposited in distant lands.

BTW: After months of rain and winds, the weather here has turned delightful. Sunny, 31C [88F] for as far as the eye can see.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Currently the weather isn't bad; 10 degrees Celsius at night, at worst, which is fine. Around 15 at day.
I hope we won't have 10 consecutive days of <0 temperatures ALL DAY & snow. That was dreadful, and happened last year.

Oh, horrors. Ten consecutive days of sub-zero temperatures. However did you survive that?

It's been a bit warmer here; wome of the snow has melted from the roofs of the rowhouses opposite my apartment building.

I dunno. I've heard of people in Kansas being swept up by tornadoes and being deposited in distant lands.

But does Berzerker have a dog, and can he sing? (Berzerker, not the dog)

BTW: After months of rain and winds, the weather here has turned delightful. Sunny, 31C [88F] for as far as the eye can see.

31C is not delightful. That's 13 degrees over my comfort level.

 

[Arakhor]

20 degrees is room temperature. How can that be above your comfort level?

 

[Kyriakos]

20 degrees is room temperature. How can that be above your comfort level?

Canadians

Then there is Verkhoyansk in Siberia. It's record high was +37.5 degrees Celsius in the summer and its record low was minus 67.6 degrees Celsius. Usually It ranges from Plus 20-30 degrees Celcius in the summer to around minus 50 degrees Celcius in the winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk

That can't be healthy.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

20 degrees is room temperature. How can that be above your comfort level?

That may be your room temperature. In the summer, it's not mine.

I do turn the thermostat up a bit in the winter, but not too much, or I end up with headaches. It's up enough to make sure I don't have problems with the pipes in the heater (they run along the length of the walls underneath the windows and we're cautioned to not open the windows or balcony doors in winter), and after that I adjust as needed. Of course I'm going to turn the heat up if it's -20 or colder (depending on wind chill; -20 with no wind chill isn't really that bad). But I also know enough to wear layers, both inside and outside.

Canadians

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, some of us. There are people here who hate winter and love 30C, for some weird reason. There are parts of winter I don't like, like icy roads and sidewalks and people who don't seem to understand the need for shoveling. Wet snow can be a problem, if it's too heavy and brings down some power lines.

 

[Zkribbler]

There are people here who hate winter and love 30C, for some weird reason.

C'est moi!

 

[stfoskey12]

It's snowing in South Texas right now. It's 20F and dry here; it's sad when you're kind of far south already but the snow still winds up missing you to the south.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/us/south-texas-snow-trnd/index.html

 

[Zkribbler]

25C [77 F]--cold for us--and rainy all day.

There's a tropical storm on the other side of the island. Our mountains are protecting us from the winds but the rain is constant..

 

[Zkribbler]

A second tropical storm has come ashore at Samar, where supertyphoon Haiyan hit four years ago. It will turn right and head up the coast.

It is giving us neither rain nor wind, but the sea is angry. We could barely hear the TV over the roar of the waves.

 

[Snerk]

Will be raining next week it seems. Bad news for the xmas snow

 

[stfoskey12]

Norman, OK might get its first rain in over a month tonight but I'm headed back to North Carolina for winter break.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We might get a millimetre or two by Christmas. Maybe. After my shopping trip later today I don't plan on going anywhere, so anytime it wants to snow, it can be my guest. We need snow, or we're going to pay for it next year.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The Thomas fire is now the third largest in state history. I'm quite far away but our air quality has tanked here.

Our heat wave (mid 80's F/upper 20's C) has passed and we're in the 60's-70's with clouds and sunshine. The Santa Anna winds that drive these fires have died down here. Not sure if they will return or not or if they have subsided north of LA.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I saw an article a day or two ago, that was talking about how fast forests recover after experiencing fires. Turns out that some of them don't recover anywhere near as fast anymore, and some will never recover - they'll gradually change to grassland, assuming anything can grow there at all (when a fire is so hot that it burns everything organic, how can it possibly grow back, at least without human intervention?).

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah @Timsup2nothin informed me of that the other day on the wildfire thread and I heard it on NPR last night as well. It's sad.