Weather talks

[stfoskey12]

We had 0.1" of freezing rain on Monday, but the high temperatures are supposed to be around 20 C/68 F this weekend.

(The worst snow storm I remember happened when I was in elementary school, and I am pretty sure it happened in August. We got something like 9 inches in a single hour due to a freak blizzard triggered by a hurricane. Temperatures were back in the upper 70s the next day. The snow melted quickly, but we still had a couple more warm snow days off from school since it took longer to repair power line that the blizzard had knocked down.)

Where were you living at the time?
Atlanta's August record low is 55 F so they can't have received 9" of snow in that month. It might be possible somewhere in the north Georgia mountains, though.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It was 77 yesterday, will be close to that today. I mean it's great to get SoCal weather without being in SoCal but I kind of wish I got a winter.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Saharan dust cloud covering the whole iberian peninsule. Cant see the sun but sky color is a luminous white. Weird. It is making temperatures lower too.

 

[stfoskey12]

We had some severe thunderstorms yesterday, and we were under a tornado warning for about an hour. Thankfully, there was no significant damage where I was, just some branches and a street sign knocked down.

 

[Daw]

And we keep having it zigzagging around 0 C the usual boring way: below freezing at nights, thawing during the days, then freezing again, then thawing again, and so on. With occasional snow showers turning into slush and mud and then joining the freeze-unfreeze pattern. Streets are being salted so generously that my car's tires got gray.

About a month of that to go yet...

 

[Cutlass]

Poop got real last night. Winds up to 70mph, drenching rains, lightning, temps in the 50s.

 

[Daw]

70mph wind sounds very serious. I don't think I ever experienced anything like that... And I'm not sure I'm curious enough to change that.

A wind like that is strong enough to carry Dorothy to the Land of Oz, right?

 

[Cutlass]

It's a long ways short of a major tornado. But it's serious wind. There's a fair amount of minor damage and broken trees in the area. Lots of branches on the ground everywhere. I talked to one guy today who's roof was damaged. 93,000 people in the state lost power for some period of time. And it's a small state.

 

[Daw]

I can imagine (barely, I guess). Here they issue "orange"* storm warning when they expect wind to be half that strength.

*means that damage is possible, so people are supposed to watch out and stay in as much as they can.

 

[Arakhor]

Serious wind is never fun, but why point out that the temperature was 10 C or so? Do you live somewhere normally baking hot?

 

[Cutlass]

Serious wind is never fun, but why point out that the temperature was 10 C or so? Do you live somewhere normally baking hot?

It's February in the North. Temp like that is well out of season.

 

[Daw]

I appreciate mentioning the temperature regardless if it is normal or abnormal, just to get the full picture.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Serious wind is never fun, but why point out that the temperature was 10 C or so? Do you live somewhere normally baking hot?

It's February in the North. Temp like that is well out of season.

Most of the US (or at least the parts that normally get cold) are having a weird quasi-fall this year instead of a proper winter. It's freaking weird to say the least.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Strongest wind i have ever experienced here has been around 120 km/h but it was the kind of wind that blows continously from a fixed direction, without gusts nor turbulences, so it did not much damage. Slower but highly turbulent winds can be far worse.

 

[Arakhor]

Our winter was positively warm this year and it's only recently that frost has started appearing in various places. It also rained like billy-oh, but that's the price of living in God's Own Country.

 

[Silurian]

Yes my grass is growing like mad.

 

[Bootstoots]

It's an El Niño winter, so it's not terribly surprising that temps are well above average in the northern US. The winter that was crazily warm was the 2011-12 winter, which had no ENSO-related excuse for being as warm as it was. In central Illinois we received at most 10 inches of snowfall all winter, never more than a couple of inches at a time. The snow never lasted more than 48 hours on the ground. It was roughly what I'd expect of a winter in Tennessee or North Carolina, 5 or 6 degrees latitude to the south. It ended with a bizarre mid-March heat wave that brought a couple of weeks of highs between the upper 70s and mid 80s, extending at times all the way to the Canadian border. There were places in Minnesota and North Dakota where the low temperature was greater than the previous record high temp. IIRC, International Falls recorded a high of 79 and a low of 60 on one day around March 15-20, when the previous record high for the date had been in the 50s. Down here, trees were in full bloom over a month ahead of schedule, which resulted in some damage when a frost occurred in early April.

 

[s0nny80y]

cloudy weather is counter intelligence against russian satellites
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[danjuno]

The weather in my area (Eastern Panhandle) has been going back and forth ever since the big one on January 25th. We even got a light snow recently. This is why groundhogs are crappy weathermen.

 

[s0nny80y]

cloudy weather is counter intelligence against russian satellites
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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
https://www.google.com/search?q=ala...F-8#q=Joint+Base+Elmendorf-Richardson+weather

seoul weather
https://www.google.com/search?q=sau...urceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#q=seoul+weather

hafr al batin weather
https://www.google.com/search?q=haf...ndroid-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

a little context...world war three might kick off between march 7 (march 6 stateside) and march 10 (march 9 stateside)

north thunder, the largest arab wargame ever, looks like it may invade syria
although it might just be a bunch of nois...thunder.
coincides with the largest us korea military exercise ever, between "March 7 to April 30" - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/25/kore-f25.html
(only google result to display key resolve foal eagle start date)

"The official Twitter account for North Thunder said the exercises were being held at King Khalid Military City in Hafr Al Batin from February 14 until March 10." - http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi...ary-exercises-begin-in-saudi-arabia-1.1673122