Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 731 Location: northern California
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
threadbear wrote:
Are you on the coast, or interior? I'm between Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Do you know if we're expected to get the same? If so, massive electrical storms will accompany the front, with the temperature differential, I'd think. What about high winds? I'd think so. Yikes.
Threadbear, I'm 300 miles from the coast. It's doubtful you'll be experiencing the same system, but who knows? The time frame between Monday and Friday (low pressure-to-high-pressure) seems long enough to preclude a wind event. When we get these massive, stagnant high pressure ridges that lock into position during the summer (I think they call it a Rex Block), often there is no wind at all, just dirty, oppressively hot, dry air. It must be like being inside a truck's inner tube that someone inflates to 100 psi. Feel that pump getting hot? _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Heineken wrote:
Put up some bat houses, Cur. Now is the time.
They really work.
I hope so. I put up two a couple of weeks ago. We always have two bats in summer any way so I am hoping that I can lure in 3 pairs. _________________ Nature is complete because it does not serve itself.
The sage places himself after and finds himself before,
Ignores his desire and finds himself content.
He is complete because he does not serve himself. -Lao Tze
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 3643 Location: Minniesotuh
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Severe storms kill at least 22 in Midwest, South
Tornadoes reported in Missouri, Okla., Ga.; rescue efforts under way
AP--PICHER, Okla. - Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in the piles of debris left after a tornado rumbled through a day earlier and killed at least seven people.
Officials held out hope that they wouldn't find any more bodies in this town, once a bustling mining center of 20,000 that dwindled to about 800 people as families fled lead pollution here.
Residents said the tornado created a surreal scene as it moved through Picher late Saturday afternoon, injuring 150 people, overturning cars, throwing mattresses and twisted metal high into the canopy of trees. …
Last night's storms _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 731 Location: northern California
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Threadbear, how did your weather turn out last week? Big winds materialize? We had 5 horrendously hot days ranging from 94 to 97 degrees here. In fact in parts of Oregon & California, it was the hottest spell ever recorded in May. Yesterday was 95. This evening I've got a fire in the woodstove, & the outside temp is 43 before the sun sets. Lightning strikes close by, ground is hail-covered. Prediction is for high temps 10 degrees below normal tomorrow & Thursday. Might give my new snow peas a little break. I'd say this weather describes "climate change" pretty well. _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
dunewalker wrote:
Threadbear, how did your weather turn out last week? Big winds materialize? We had 5 horrendously hot days ranging from 94 to 97 degrees here. In fact in parts of Oregon & California, it was the hottest spell ever recorded in May. Yesterday was 95. This evening I've got a fire in the woodstove, & the outside temp is 43 before the sun sets. Lightning strikes close by, ground is hail-covered. Prediction is for high temps 10 degrees below normal tomorrow & Thursday. Might give my new snow peas a little break. I'd say this weather describes "climate change" pretty well.
It's been warmer, a couple of 70+ days, but still pretty chilly, all in all. We didn't get any windstorms. You might get new snow? Cripes, You'll have to wait for the warm winter weather for a melt, I guess!
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6492 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
This has been the coolest, wettest May I can ever remember. We're still getting down into the low 50s and upper 40s at night. Many days don't get out of the 60s. Highly unusual for our location. Frequent abundant rainfall has put the drought to bed here. My tomatoes just sit there, not growing and slowly turning yellow. Warmer weather is finally scheduled to arrive next week.
April was also very cool for much of the US (although this was not particularly true in Virginia).
I read on the NOAA website that, for the rest of the world, April was the 13th hottest in history. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Heineken wrote:
This has been the coolest, wettest May I can ever remember. We're still getting down into the low 50s and upper 40s at night. Many days don't get out of the 60s. Highly unusual for our location. Frequent abundant rainfall has put the drought to bed here. My tomatoes just sit there, not growing and slowly turning yellow. Warmer weather is finally scheduled to arrive next week.
April was also very cool for much of the US (although this was not particularly true in Virginia).
I read on the NOAA website that, for the rest of the world, April was the 13th hottest in history.
The west has been baking recently, but overall it has been a cool month nationwide. For those of us on the east coast, we should be getting into some nice warmth by Sunday.
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 731 Location: northern California
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Erratic is the weather word--I guess it's always been that way. As I posted above, it was 95 here day before yesterday. Today the high was 54 and blustery, so that 3 shirts were necessary for my walk. A difference in highs of 41 degrees within 2 days. Might freeze tonight, hope the garden is ok... _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 3643 Location: Minniesotuh
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Twisters hammer Colorado, Wyoming
1 death reported; 130 day-care children earlier moved to safety
WINDSOR, Colo. - Tornadoes touched down in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming on Thursday, killing at least one person, damaging buildings and flipping vehicles. The storm system also triggered tornado warnings in central Kansas through Friday morning. …
TV interviewee said it was the first tornado they'd ever had _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
Joined: May 24, 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Southern Arizona
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
On Monday it was 110 degrees. Yesterday and today we're topping out at 70 degrees and received close to two inches of rain. May rain in Arizona is very rare. Something is definately up with the weather.
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
We have got quite a normal spring weather in Finland (now around 10-20C), but I found this about eastern Europe and Balkans:
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan:
Quote:
Eastern Europe sweltered in a pre-summer heat wave Wednesday that pushed temperatures to a 121-year high in Belgrade and halted a Hungarian train after the tracks bent, the dpa reported. In Bulgaria, temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius in the western part of the country, the highest in a century for the end of May, the Meteorological Institute in Sofia said. Belgrade, Serbia's capital, had 39 degrees, the highest May heat since 1887, meteorologists said. Neighbouring Macedonia recorded 38 degrees in the south and 35 degrees in the capital Skopje. Szeged, a Hungarian city near the Romanian and Serbian borders, reported 34 degrees, the highest for the day since record-keeping began. Similar heat bent the tracks on a railroad line between the capital Budapest and the northern town of Esztergom, forcing a train to stop. Passengers had to switch to buses. Last year, the region was hit by a severe July heatwave that caused dozens of casualties, forest fires and a state of emergency in several countries, including Serbia and Macedonia.
It's celcius degrees they are talking about in that article.
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