Walks, Seen the Forecast?

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Quote from: walkstall on February 16, 2015, 01:02:16 PM
My Weather Channel is stepping out side and looking around or the net.  Right now outside is telling me it's 55º and sunny.  :biggrin:
Same here. I'm sitting here bare ass naked, house wide open with 70+ outside.
Hey, if it has to be a drought, at least it's a nice one. :biggrin:
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Quote from: TboneAgain on February 16, 2015, 01:14:32 PM
Not even a good joke! LOL!

A&E, History, Discovery, Science, MTV, VH1, all gone. Wall to wall 'reality' crap, which leaves you to wonder what sort of 'reality' reigns wherever these shows are produced. (And it leaves us to wonder why there isn't a channel called "RealityTV.")

For online weather, weather.com actually isn't too bad, despite its affiliation with TWC. But there are better alternatives. For straightforward, completely unimaginative, "just the facts, ma'am" weather reporting, I use NOAA. But Weather Underground is gaining credibility in leaps and bounds lately. Around here, I have to be careful what reporting stations I trust. (Example: the nearest WU station to me clearly has it's temperature sensor located in the open. When the sun is shining, the temp readings are WAY too high, typically by ten degrees or more.) I especially like their graphic presentation of their 10-day forecast.
Yep, I use them all, the bare facts is all I need, that and the satellite and I can generally do a better job than the rest when it comes to weather in my micro climate.

But out here on the west coast, we have a retired meteorologist that just couldn't seem to stop working.
The guy (The Old Forecaster) is by far more accurate than any of the local TV stations that rely on computer modeling, this guy uses experience as well as his gut to tell him what to expect.
You may have one of these guys in your neck of the woods, do a search, you might be surprised.

http://www.northstateweather.com/
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Here's a news item to make us pine for 6 feet of snow, year-round.....

QuoteFederal offices in weather-sensitive metropolitan Washington will not open on Tuesday, the Office of Personnel Management announced late Monday night.

Emergency workers and staffers who can work via computer must follow the policies of their individual agencies, the office advised on its website.

The area is expected to see 4-8 inches of snow overnight and 6-10 inches on Monday, according to the National Weather Service. A snow emergency will take effect at 7 a.m. ET.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/16/weather-washington-federal-offices/23532875/

Solar

Quote from: quiller on February 17, 2015, 03:19:13 AM
Here's a news item to make us pine for 6 feet of snow, year-round.....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/16/weather-washington-federal-offices/23532875/
If only we could direct that over DC for a few years nonstop. :biggrin:
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Quote from: Solar on February 17, 2015, 05:22:26 AM
If only we could direct that over DC for a few years nonstop. :biggrin:
I know damn well they'd pay $125,000 each for snowmobiles, to get back and forth. Maybe if we had fire-truck hoses spraying water onto their houses, sealing them in with ice.....

Solar

Quote from: quiller on February 17, 2015, 08:29:12 AM
I know damn well they'd pay $125,000 each for snowmobiles, to get back and forth. Maybe if we had fire-truck hoses spraying water onto their houses, sealing them in with ice.....
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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OK, campers, if you're a blues fan, this one will probably require you open a second browser just to keep Albert Collins playing us a mess of HARD-core down-'n'-dirty winter-time blues from his album FROSTBITE. (No real video to speak of.)

This here's the link to the whole album, but the one enduring masterpiece of this L/P begins about 31:20 or so.... Anybody who's EVER tried to start a car in winter will swear by this one.

Albert Collins - Frostbite (Full Album)

Feels like minus 25. Dammit, I want a background music track, and this one's IT!!!!

keyboarder

Camper? Where?  Good Lord it's cold here.  In SC, if it ever gets in the teens, we've had it.  Totally not used to this kind of cold.  The projected low here on Thursday morn is only at 0deg with an expected high of somewhere in the twenties with the wind picking up speed.  Like some kind of horrible punishment.  I can tell where my knickers land.

Seriously, we had 1.5 inches of nothing but ice on our deck and everything else was covered too.  No one around here went to school or work yesterday.  Mostly what we get is usually always ice and that makes going almost impossible.  More of the same forecast for the weekend.  We've seen this before though and it won't last too long.  Spring is right around the corner!
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Quote from: keyboarder on February 18, 2015, 11:52:22 AM
Camper? Where?  Good Lord it's cold here.  In SC, if it ever gets in the teens, we've had it.  Totally not used to this kind of cold.  The projected low here on Thursday morn is only at 0deg with an expected high of somewhere in the twenties with the wind picking up speed.  Like some kind of horrible punishment.  I can tell where my knickers land.

Seriously, we had 1.5 inches of nothing but ice on our deck and everything else was covered too.  No one around here went to school or work yesterday.  Mostly what we get is usually always ice and that makes going almost impossible.  More of the same forecast for the weekend.  We've seen this before though and it won't last too long.  Spring is right around the corner!

Didn't get much here in WNC, but it was topped off by freezing ice. I have been iced in for two days because being in the mountains means a lot of shade and steep hills. Hope to get our streets plowed today.
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TboneAgain

Holy shit, boys and girls! The US Weather Service official recording station at the Marysville, Ohio airport, just a few miles down the road from me, just recorded a temperature reading -- not a wind chill -- of -21 degrees Fahrenheit. FWIW, the station also recorded a wind chill rating of -35 degrees. If that's a true reading, it would probably break the low temp record for this date by something like 15 degrees.

Don't know if this is a local anomaly, a faulty thermometer, or what. Nearby reporting stations all say it's somewhere well below zero, but none of them are close to -21.

BR-R-R-R-R-R!! February sucks.
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quiller

Detroit and Ann Arbor records going back to 1900 and before are already broken. That should lower crime rates greatly as well: at least that much is a positive, as are brisk sales in sidewalk salt, kitty litter and other winter paraphernalia. May God bless and preserve all employees of whoever makes Polar Fleece long johns. Seriously!

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Quote from: quiller on February 24, 2015, 03:57:13 AM
Detroit and Ann Arbor records going back to 1900 and before are already broken. That should lower crime rates greatly as well: at least that much is a positive, as are brisk sales in sidewalk salt, kitty litter and other winter paraphernalia. May God bless and preserve all employees of whoever makes Polar Fleece long johns. Seriously!

It must have been some sort of concentrated cell here. Columbus recorded a low around -15, and Bellefontaine (the other direction) hit -12. Both of those are records by a considerable margin. But holy shit! Our temps (recorded at the Union County Airport at an official NWS station) were at -21 before midnight, stayed around -18 to -20 all night, and finally bottomed out at -23 as the sun was coming up. The Delaware NWS station, about 20 miles east of here, similarly recorded -24 about the same time this morning.

That doesn't merely break the record for this day in February. (Of course it does, by about 18 degrees!) Looking at the published records for Columbus, which go back to 1878, it breaks the all-time record for the coldest temperature : -22 degrees on January 19, 1994.

The whole business just frosts my ass.  :tounge:
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walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on February 24, 2015, 12:00:27 PM
It must have been some sort of concentrated cell here. Columbus recorded a low around -15, and Bellefontaine (the other direction) hit -12. Both of those are records by a considerable margin. But holy shit! Our temps (recorded at the Union County Airport at an official NWS station) were at -21 before midnight, stayed around -18 to -20 all night, and finally bottomed out at -23 as the sun was coming up. The Delaware NWS station, about 20 miles east of here, similarly recorded -24 about the same time this morning.

That doesn't merely break the record for this day in February. (Of course it does, by about 18 degrees!) Looking at the published records for Columbus, which go back to 1878, it breaks the all-time record for the coldest temperature : -22 degrees on January 19, 1994.

The whole business just frosts my ass.  :tounge:

Damn I only got down to 18º last night.  But we are hitting almost 60º day time.  I can live with that, as I don't have to start mowing the yard yet.  Did I say it feels like 80º in the sun.    :woot:
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Quote from: walkstall on February 24, 2015, 01:59:23 PM
Damn I only got down to 18º last night.  But we are hitting almost 60º day time.  I can live with that, as I don't have to start mowing the yard yet.  Did I say it feels like 80º in the sun.    :woot:
Yeah, we're having  spring weather (70s for the entire month), Toy mowed the grass yesterday, and I've been landscaping, using the tractor to scrape foot of new growth/weeds coming up.
Pushed down a few trees for next years firewood supply, and it's still supposed to be winter?

I hope to God we get a March miracle in lines of rain and snow, if not, there will be a lot of threatening fires, which will force me to push over nearly 50 trees to create a fire break.

But I'm sure glad we're not getting the weather our friends are getting in the East. :scared:
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Today at 7AM it was 100º on my back deck.  High for today they said 66º, but in the sun it's 82º.  I don't see temps dropping below 40º at night from now on. 

Put down 300lbs of fertilizer yesterday and turned on the yard watering system.  I will gave it a good watering ever other day or so as need until I need to start watering ever day.   I have bulbs sprouting up and the leaves on the trees are starting to come out.  Put in some daffodils to keep the good wife happy this year. 

Will be taking off my snow tires tomorrow as I have not needed them for the last 2 months for snow.  But there been ice on the road at 5AM, up to last week sometimes.   I think this is going to be a very short Spring for us.  This may be a two crop year for most of the farmers in this area this year.
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