Zardnaar
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Southern NZ.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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Canadian Bluebeer
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After living in the Calif desert for a while, when I came back to Canada, 20 was sweater temps. (68F) Summer temps in CA desert? 100F at night.
heh.
(now, in the army in MB in the 80s, when the chinooks warmed up the place to 15C in Feb, that was tshirt time)
(oh, bit of a diff in temp tolerances between being in your 20s vs 60s)
heh.
(now, in the army in MB in the 80s, when the chinooks warmed up the place to 15C in Feb, that was tshirt time)
(oh, bit of a diff in temp tolerances between being in your 20s vs 60s)
Zardnaar
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Hot. Heat pumps on 18 Celsius.
The weather system that dumped snow on Florida yesterday is continuing up the east coast of the US, it will deepen and hit Ireland on Friday as what looks like a very strong storm.
I'm impressed by the modeling as it was forecast before it had even formed in the Gulf ofAmerica Mexico.
I'm impressed by the modeling as it was forecast before it had even formed in the Gulf of
It's snowing and windy here. I wouldn't want to be someone trying to go anywhere tomorrow.
EgonSpengler
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7F/-14C when I'm leaving the house the last two mornings. Okay, that's a little cold, even for me. 
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On first read, I saw "army[...] chinooks[...]" and wondered why the f you were warming yourselves with Chinooks, but needs must, I guess...After living in the Calif desert for a while, when I came back to Canada, 20 was sweater temps. (68F) Summer temps in CA desert? 100F at night.
heh.
(now, in the army in MB in the 80s, when the chinooks warmed up the place to 15C in Feb, that was tshirt time)
(oh, bit of a diff in temp tolerances between being in your 20s vs 60s)
Spoiler :
We had snow this weekend, the first snow since weeks before Christmas.
It was 50F/ 10C the day before the snow started but its been pretty cold everyday since. Its about 18F/ -7C right now and it was even colder this morning. I'm already sick of winter
It was 50F/ 10C the day before the snow started but its been pretty cold everyday since. Its about 18F/ -7C right now and it was even colder this morning. I'm already sick of winter
Bestbank Tiger
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We got sneaux. Got some rare photos of palms and magnolias in a winter wonderland.
Front yard is already clear due to the high sun angles.
Front yard is already clear due to the high sun angles.
We got down to 6 on Monday night, but last night it was only 16. Sunny as usual. Pipes survived.
That is pretty brisk! The Galway Girls will need a hat to keep their hair in place!
FL deserves all the bad weather it gets.Pensacola, Florida got 9 inches (22 or 23 cm) of snow
Major storm lashes Ireland, Scotland with hurricane-force winds
Millions in Ireland and northern parts of the UK have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home
BY JILL LAWLESS AND PAN PYLAS ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.
Forecasters had issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland. Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was hit with wind gusts of 114 mph, the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland.
A man died after a tree fell on his car in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, local police said.
The storm was moving fast and was expected to have cleared Scotland’s shores by late Friday. City centers, such as Dublin in Ireland, Belfast in Northern Ireland and Glasgow in Scotland were eerily quiet, much like the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as shops stayed closed and people heeded the advice to not venture out. For those that did leave home and were caught in one of the wind gusts, it was a struggle to stay upright. “I want to thank members of the public for largely following Police Scotland’s advice not to travel,” said Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney.
More than a million homes, farms and businesses in the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland were without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island. A further 100,000 customers in Scotland were also reported to have lost power. Schools were closed and trains, ferries and more than 1,000 flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland and the U.K., even as far south as London Heathrow, as the system, named Storm Éowyn by weather authorities, roared in. The disruption is set to last through Saturday. ScotRail, for example, said the storm caused significant damage to infrastructure and that a full assessment of the network will need to be done, which will include the removal of debris.
Ireland’s weather office, Met Eireann, said the 114 mph gusts early Friday were recorded at Mace Head on the west coast, beating a record of 113 mph set in 1945. Wind speeds in Scotland were slightly lower through the day, though still historically high. Part of the storm’s energy originated with the system that brought historic snowfall along the Gulf Coast of the U.S., said Jason Nicholls, lead international forecaster at the private weather company AccuWeather. Éowyn became a bomb cyclone, which happens when a storm’s pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours, as it brought whipping winds and heavy rain to parts of Ireland and the U.K. Winds blowing over the ocean encounter less friction than they do traveling over other terrain, like hilly land, allowing them to reach intense speeds.
The storm was so powerful that meteorologists say a sting jet developed, meaning Eowyn tapped into exceptionally strong winds higher up in the atmosphere. A sting jet is a narrow area of winds moving 100 mph or faster that is drawn down to the Earth’s surface from the mid-troposphere and lasts for a few hours. It’s not immediately clear whether the powerful 114 mph wind gust that hit Ireland is linked to the sting jet.
Scientists say pinpointing the exact influence of climate change on a storm is challenging, but all storms are happening in an atmosphere that is warming abnormally fast due to human-released pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane. “As the climate gets warmer, we can expect these storms to become even more intense, with greater damages,” said Hayley Fowler, a professor of climate change impacts at Newcastle University.
@really Your weather made the NM papers.
Millions in Ireland and northern parts of the UK have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home
BY JILL LAWLESS AND PAN PYLAS ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.
Forecasters had issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland. Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was hit with wind gusts of 114 mph, the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland.
A man died after a tree fell on his car in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, local police said.
The storm was moving fast and was expected to have cleared Scotland’s shores by late Friday. City centers, such as Dublin in Ireland, Belfast in Northern Ireland and Glasgow in Scotland were eerily quiet, much like the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as shops stayed closed and people heeded the advice to not venture out. For those that did leave home and were caught in one of the wind gusts, it was a struggle to stay upright. “I want to thank members of the public for largely following Police Scotland’s advice not to travel,” said Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney.
More than a million homes, farms and businesses in the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland were without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island. A further 100,000 customers in Scotland were also reported to have lost power. Schools were closed and trains, ferries and more than 1,000 flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland and the U.K., even as far south as London Heathrow, as the system, named Storm Éowyn by weather authorities, roared in. The disruption is set to last through Saturday. ScotRail, for example, said the storm caused significant damage to infrastructure and that a full assessment of the network will need to be done, which will include the removal of debris.
Ireland’s weather office, Met Eireann, said the 114 mph gusts early Friday were recorded at Mace Head on the west coast, beating a record of 113 mph set in 1945. Wind speeds in Scotland were slightly lower through the day, though still historically high. Part of the storm’s energy originated with the system that brought historic snowfall along the Gulf Coast of the U.S., said Jason Nicholls, lead international forecaster at the private weather company AccuWeather. Éowyn became a bomb cyclone, which happens when a storm’s pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours, as it brought whipping winds and heavy rain to parts of Ireland and the U.K. Winds blowing over the ocean encounter less friction than they do traveling over other terrain, like hilly land, allowing them to reach intense speeds.
The storm was so powerful that meteorologists say a sting jet developed, meaning Eowyn tapped into exceptionally strong winds higher up in the atmosphere. A sting jet is a narrow area of winds moving 100 mph or faster that is drawn down to the Earth’s surface from the mid-troposphere and lasts for a few hours. It’s not immediately clear whether the powerful 114 mph wind gust that hit Ireland is linked to the sting jet.
Scientists say pinpointing the exact influence of climate change on a storm is challenging, but all storms are happening in an atmosphere that is warming abnormally fast due to human-released pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane. “As the climate gets warmer, we can expect these storms to become even more intense, with greater damages,” said Hayley Fowler, a professor of climate change impacts at Newcastle University.
@really Your weather made the NM papers.
Yes, I could feel my house shaking on Friday morning. Lots still without power and water (due to lack of power to pump water to reservoirs). No real damage to my house. Satellite knocked out of position but I fixed that myself.
Neighbours on both sides have damage to their roof and lost slates.
Two of ten on my team were able to log on on Friday.
A big tree fell at my parents nearby but they were waiting for that to happen - it was old and weakened. Just missed a building. Some damage to a shed roof too.
30% of all mobile phone users in the country were impacted at the peak with networks losing power.
Lots of random damage around: trees, fences, signs, sheds, bus shelters knocked over.
Some structural damage from either wind blowing down gables or falling trees.
There's a tree hanging over my broadband line further along the road.
That wind record is probably slightly understated - the station lost power and the backup ran out before the peak.
My 6 year old slept through it, the rest of us were awake from about 2am.
Neighbours on both sides have damage to their roof and lost slates.
Two of ten on my team were able to log on on Friday.
A big tree fell at my parents nearby but they were waiting for that to happen - it was old and weakened. Just missed a building. Some damage to a shed roof too.
30% of all mobile phone users in the country were impacted at the peak with networks losing power.
Lots of random damage around: trees, fences, signs, sheds, bus shelters knocked over.
Some structural damage from either wind blowing down gables or falling trees.
There's a tree hanging over my broadband line further along the road.
That wind record is probably slightly understated - the station lost power and the backup ran out before the peak.
My 6 year old slept through it, the rest of us were awake from about 2am.
