The Weather/Climate Thread

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This thread is for anything relating to discussion of weather or climate other than climate change/global warming, which has its own thread. The main reason I created this thread is to discuss what the weather is like in other parts of the world, since climate tables often do not provide a complete depiction, but I do not care if it gets more broad than that.

So to start off, what are the warmest and coldest temperatures recorded so far in your region this year?

In the Raleigh area it got down to 18 F twice and up to 96 F once.
 
The most I have to say is that severe weather season and hurricane season have been dull as hell this year. One or two storms the entire summer, and both were busts, and to boot no hurricanes to follow. Pretty boring it you ask me.

Temperature wise the entire summer was extremely mild, up until the first week of school (end of August) when suddenly heat wave. Now it's been on and off mild heat wave. Once again, boring stuff.
 
96 in Raleigh only once? Back in the day in Fayettenam we had 100+ at least 14 days a year.

Joecoolyo, you live in Iowa, where the affects of hurricanes are negligible!

Try riding out the storm in the sand-dune jungles of Fayettenam!
 
Hottest day here was like 102 this year which seems low honestly.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
Joecoolyo, you live in Iowa, where the affects of hurricanes are negligible!
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Well yeah, doesn't mean they're not interesting to follow. The development of some can get to be pretty exciting/cool looking.
 
More rain here, cloudy and cool in this slice of the tropics. Locals have said they've never seen the ocean so cold. Typhoon, cat 5, the strongest storm on the planet this year went north of Luzon and I don't know if its hit Hong Kong yet as predicted. If anything like that ever hit here it would tear everything to shreds, I can't imagine. Kind of a passing shot at Luzon but tore right through the small northern Philippine Islands. Really should Google some pics, see how they fared. Most of the people here live in nepa huts, if the folks there do then those homes are gone.

Read recently that there hasn't been a category 3 hurricane or above hit the US in the last 8 years.
 
CavLancer said:
Read recently that there hasn't been a category 3 hurricane or above hit the US in the last 8 years.
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Went to go check the veracity of that, and huh, yeah, its true. There's been plenty of storms that have been stronger than Category 3, but the ones that near landfall have always seemed to have weakened ever so slightly to a maximum of Category 2. I would hazard guess that's not out of the ordinary, since nearing land can disrupt the structure of a hurricane incredibly, and it would have to have been either far more powerful prior to landfall (as to weaken to a Cat 3 when nearing land) or be small/have an amazing structure.
 
Just looked at the weather forecast for the next five days. Its going to be between 15 and 17 between day and night which is unusually constant.
 
Joecoolyo said:
Went to go check the veracity of that, and huh, yeah, its true. There's been plenty of storms that have been stronger than Category 3, but the ones that near landfall have always seemed to have weakened ever so slightly to a maximum of Category 2. I would hazard guess that's not out of the ordinary, since nearing land can disrupt the structure of a hurricane incredibly, and it would have to have been either far more powerful prior to landfall (as to weaken to a Cat 3 when nearing land) or be small/have an amazing structure.
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Amazing though isn't it? I remember one year when 3 (or was it 4?) hurricanes of Cat 3 and above hit Florida. Of course that brought on the dire predictions of the future, but now 8 years and not one. Make's one think. No Fear!, right? :dunno: Fear is a form of mind control.
 
Sydney had a record temperature last summer: it got up to 47C in the west. It was also particularly unusual in that it got up to 45C in the city itself, whereas normally there's a 5-10C difference. Apparently winter was quite unusually warm too, and my weather app tells me it's already hitting 30+ fairly regularly.

Here, meanwhile, it's getting colder, which seems unnatural for late September. When the sun was out the other day I saw a temp display which said 27, but then it's been raining mostly, up to 16 or 17, maybe only 13 or 14 next week.
 
CavLancer said:
Amazing though isn't it? I remember one year when 3 (or was it 4?) hurricanes of Cat 3 and above hit Florida. Of course that brought on the dire predictions of the future, but now 8 years and not one. Make's one think. No Fear!, right? :dunno: Fear is a form of mind control.
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If anything, that was probably 2005, an incredibly freakish year. I'm not even sure what caused it, but I guess it was just the perfect mix of everything needed to create hurricanes the busiest recorded season in history. I mean five category 5 hurricanes, one of which is was the strongest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic, ever. Its just mind boggling how that all came together. It got the point in which they ran out of names, and had to use Greek letters to name all the late season hurricanes. I mean, a tropical storm in January? Damn.

Insane stuff.

But yeah, nothing has come close to 2005 in terms of intensity, just because, that was like a once in a century event.
 
The guys on the news were say that it was 'the new norm" that it was going to get worse, that this was all caused by AGW. What they were n o t saying is that it was a once in a century event. They got that sooooo wrong. Eight years and nothing, talk about miscall!

Anyway here I sit in the tropics and its very cool. This keeps up I'm going to bring my long pants and shirts over from the US. This just isn't right. Years ago these clouds would just burn off, they wouldn't stand a chance. When I got here 17 years ago it was h o t. Haven't seen the sun all day.
 
CavLancer said:
The guys on the news were say that it was 'the new norm" that it was going to get worse, that this was all caused by AGW. What they were n o t saying is that it was a once in a century event. They got that sooooo wrong. Eight years and nothing, talk about miscall!

Anyway here I sit in the tropics and its very cool. This keeps up I'm going to bring my long pants and shirts over from the US. This just isn't right. Years ago these clouds would just burn off, they wouldn't stand a chance. When I got here 17 years ago it was h o t. Haven't seen the sun all day.
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This thread is not about global warming
 
Ahh, thanks
 
Anyone ever walk to work and it's so hot outside that the asphalt melts and sticks to your shoes?
 
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