Oh, the weather outside is...
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EgonSpengler
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An article in the paper this morning confirms what most of us already suspected: The "lower 48" had an above-average daily low temperature, June-August, and 5 states set new records. The Northeast states also had unusually high humidity levels. Overall, nighttime lows and daytime highs combined, only the states at the center of the country weren't unusually hot. (NOAA record-keeping goes back to 1895.) Of course there's a vicious cycle here, in that air conditioning and refrigeration use energy, so as the temperatures go up, we use more electricity, which requires generation plants to burn more fuel, which is what raised the temperature in the first place.
So you are now in Texas! BTW, those "dry canals" are called arroyos and yes, when it rains they flood. They are designed to work that way. Turn Texas blue this November please.
Round and round and round we goes, where we stops, nobody snows!
Lexicus
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Florence's predicted path is slowly but surely being dragged further west. There are now several model runs in the ensemble that take it over the DC area. Still not very likely at this point but man do I like following these hurricanes.
Perhaps more interestingly, there are two tropical depressions behind it, moving off the African coast.
Perhaps more interestingly, there are two tropical depressions behind it, moving off the African coast.
Zkribbler
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I woke up this morning to some beautiful weather and settled in to watch the news. By 09:00, there was wind & rain & WTH?! 
Where did that come from?!
Where did that come from?!
We've got a snowfall warning. It's mostly west and north of here, but we might see some of it, tomorrow or the next day.I woke up this morning to some beautiful weather and settled in to watch the news. By 09:00, there was wind & rain & WTH?!
This should be a wakeup call for some people to get their vehicles ready for winter, make sure they know where the shovels and ice chippers/scrapers are, etc.
Well you see, as the moisture on the surface of the earth evaporates into the atmosphere it begins to condense into things we call "clouds" and then the moisture contained in these "clouds"...I woke up this morning to some beautiful weather and settled in to watch the news. By 09:00, there was wind & rain & WTH?!
Bamspeedy
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Moved this post from another thread, seems more appropriate here since it wasn't a hurricane/cyclone.
My area just had two weeks of flooding. They said we've had a decade of flooding, but this last one was the worst. In previous floods they've said "well it wasn't quite as bad as '79, but I think this one beat that. End of the work week I almost didn't make it home twice. Saw one of those 50-100 gallon propane tanks houses use for heat carried into the woods, an RV tipped over, legion hall had 6-8 feet of water in it (previous floods in the last decade only came up to the door, not into it). Second storm brought another 18 inches into the building. Seeing washing machines and dryers carried away makes me think the second storm carried those away after they were brought outside from the first storm.
Some areas got up to 12" of rain from one storm, then a week later another (smaller storm) came through. In the valleys, creeks became raging rivers. One person had a minivan parked in their garage, floodwaters pushed the car right through the wall. First monday I came home from work, got to the bottom of a hill and a tree was across the road and informed the road was washed out ahead anyways, so I turned around and took another way. An hour later a 10 mile stretch of road I just traveled was underwater, in some places what would have been up to the car window. The next monday on my way home there was more landslides on the road from the second storm, but they had just cleaned it up when I was driving through. In one village, rescue people couldn't reach it from any one of the half dozen ways to get to it, so the volunteer fire department already based in the city was the only help they were going to get for awhile.
My area just had two weeks of flooding. They said we've had a decade of flooding, but this last one was the worst. In previous floods they've said "well it wasn't quite as bad as '79, but I think this one beat that. End of the work week I almost didn't make it home twice. Saw one of those 50-100 gallon propane tanks houses use for heat carried into the woods, an RV tipped over, legion hall had 6-8 feet of water in it (previous floods in the last decade only came up to the door, not into it). Second storm brought another 18 inches into the building. Seeing washing machines and dryers carried away makes me think the second storm carried those away after they were brought outside from the first storm.
Some areas got up to 12" of rain from one storm, then a week later another (smaller storm) came through. In the valleys, creeks became raging rivers. One person had a minivan parked in their garage, floodwaters pushed the car right through the wall. First monday I came home from work, got to the bottom of a hill and a tree was across the road and informed the road was washed out ahead anyways, so I turned around and took another way. An hour later a 10 mile stretch of road I just traveled was underwater, in some places what would have been up to the car window. The next monday on my way home there was more landslides on the road from the second storm, but they had just cleaned it up when I was driving through. In one village, rescue people couldn't reach it from any one of the half dozen ways to get to it, so the volunteer fire department already based in the city was the only help they were going to get for awhile.
Zkribbler
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Oh my, Bamspeedy! 
That's real rain!
Oh...sunny and in the high 80s this week. We might get a night time shower once or twice.
It's quite windy this morning. It must have rained overnight, as there are puddles here and there. Still not sure if we're expecting snow, or just more rain.
It smells like autumn outside.
It smells like autumn outside.
Lexicus
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Rain and clouds forecast here until at least Sunday. Haven't seen the sun in four or five days.
That's no way to live....
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Hope the storm blowing in from the east peters out before you snag more of it up there.
I love our volunteer guys, but I really don't think I would want to replace hospital with them for any amount of time. :shudders:
Zkribbler
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Welcome to my world.
We have a super typhoon about to pass the northeast corner of the Phils. We also have our northeast monsoon rains. Satellite imagery shows moisture being drawn across the length of the Indonesian archipelago, across the Sulu Sea, across my island of Bohol, and then northeast into the maw of the super typhoon.Okay, admittedly we do get brief bouts of sunshine, but they're quickly replaced by clouds and fitful downpours.
On the plus side, you don't have cold weather.Welcome to my world.
Okay, admittedly we do get brief bouts of sunshine, but they're quickly replaced by clouds and fitful downpours.
Zkribbler
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Big winds, rain, local schools are closed. Tomorrow winds at 41, gusts to 62 kph. Saturday: winds at 34, gusts to 51 kph.
