Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
We've had about a month total of what you'd call real summer in southern B.C. Canada. A lot of rain, and it's okay by me. The cold Spring is playing havoc with berry ripening and the deer are stick thin, in spite of the rains. The only babies that survived were the ones born late in the Spring, early Summer. I fear for them if we have a cold winter. Our deer population is down by a good 50% from a few years ago. We still have a huge number, but freakish weather is going to take the herd down to nothing, if we get more harsh sub freezing Winter weather.
I will be feeding them throughout the Fall and Winter, regardless of what the naturalists tell you to do.
Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 791 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
GASMON wrote:
First of September tomorrow - hope it will be better than August
What was Neil Diamond singing about in Hot August Night ??.
Apart from 1 or 2 sunny days, warm(ish), but grey, cloudy, miserable most days this month. Quite a bit of rain too. (Raining now). Its true that sunny days make you feel better. or, rather they used to do.
Not had ONE hot, sultry night needing all windows open & cooling fans on this year. NOT ONE.
Roll on winter. Scraping the frost off the car windscreen, and the big heating bills to come.
Off to sunny Thailand in October, while the big birds still fly.
Gasmon
You like constant sun? Weather so hot and sultry at night that you'd rather have the AC on rather than have windows open? You oughta stop by my place for a spell...hehe. Don't like excessive heat? Come in December...that's when I sleep with the windows open and go for long walks under a warm, slanty sun.
It used to be cloudy and rainy in these parts, or so the old-timers say. Kinda hard to imagine week-long streaks of clouds and rain, summer or winter, but they say it really used to happen, once upon a time, so long ago. But not any more. Sunny and dry, that's what our weather is like 90% of the time.
Bro, can you spare us a few rainy days? _________________ Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...
...and the meek shall inherit the Earth!
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Byron, no air-con in 99% of UK homes - no real need for it.
I would willingly swap a few days, but I agree that too much humid heat is not good. A few days though makes a refreshing change for us brits.
I live in the north west, and the Atlantic rules our weather. Used to be we could have 4 seasons weather in a day. Snow, rain, clear up to sun & blue skies. Our summers used to be a few days rain followed by a week or so sun, allways changing, but this year its just got monotonous. Our weather some how seems to have stalled, same every day. Cloudy.
Come think of it, we've also only had a couple of thunderstorms this year and they weren't up to much.
Gasmon _________________ Been there, Done that, Bought the tee-shirt
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 766 Location: northern California
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Well, here it is September. No measurable rain in the entire month of August, 23 days of 90 degree maximums or better, at my homestead. Hottest day was 104, coolest was yesterday, 66. In fact, yesterday was the only day all month that the max was below 80. Lowest temp for August was 32 degrees, on the 22nd. We had a dry cold front blow through Saturday night, lowering the temperature from 92 at 4pm to 70 at 7pm. Then a high yesterday of 66. This morning the low was 25--that just about wraps up my garden watering chores for the year... this is a cold record for the date. _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1850 Location: East of Eden
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
San Diego - Summer weather has been just odd enough this year for people to notice. What is normally June Gloom was a heat wave. Beautiful July was gloomy this year. The heat waves of August were instead just muggy.
I know the desert has been high in humidity and temperature, because I can often see the huge thunderheads building up in the East. Magnificent like high mountains, sometimes glowing incredible colors in the evening sun.
No rain here, that's not unusual, but Encinitas saw a freak micro-thunderstorm last week. This area very occasionally sees small tornadoes and waterspouts off the coast. I wouldn't be all that surprised if something weird happens this year. We'll see what September brings. _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
We had almost 10 inches of rain in August. Above average to say the least. Also had a week of well below normal temperatures in the 70s and 80s. This coming Wednesday is going to be low 70s with low 80s on Thursday and Friday. And it appears that the remnants of Gustav may be headed this way. I guess it will test out the new drainiage system we put in this weekend.
Overall this summer has been mild to me. Except for one week of 100 + temps, they have been running average to below average.
I just hope the Farmers Almanac is wrong about the COLD winter!
The forecast track for Hurricane Hanna runs a little west of my location (by which time it will be a tropical depression). This is quite exciting! _________________ "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
The forecast track for Hurricane Hanna runs a little west of my location (by which time it will be a tropical depression). This is quite exciting!
We could either change the name of the storm to Hurricane Heineken, or change your handle to Hannaken... _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
I'll take the rain, Dune, whatever the name of the hurricane, or me! _________________ "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
Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 791 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Heineken wrote:
Golly, now the projected track for Hanna passes directly through us. And they're maintaining it at tropical storm strength.
Guess I'd better batten down the hatches.
Yeah, that's some pretty exciting stuff for you guys...but I sure hope you don't get a lot of tree damage. :/ If this thing pulls a Hugo, it could bring hurricane-force winds well inland, and tropical storm force winds much further than that.
Doesn't look like either Gustav or Hanna will give us any rain, but there's Ike on the horizon, on a steady track towards Cuba/Florida. Models are already indicating that this storm will recurve into the eastern Gulf and come north...great news for us and the drought if we can get it to stall out over or near us. _________________ Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...
...and the meek shall inherit the Earth!
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6623 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Yes, I'm a bit scared, Byron. This looks as least as threatening as Isabel, an event of which I'm a survivor. We lost power for almost a week, and I spent many weeks removing debris from around and on top of buildings, and along my trail system. Isabel was a big, big deal in Virginia.
Watching Ike along with you.
Edit (several days later): They've changed the forecast. Looks like Hanna will be wanting to bounce back out to sea. Eastern Virginia will get some rain, but not much where I am. Oh well. Sigh. _________________ "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
Just a summer update from crusty southwest Wisconsin.
3rd driest August on record after huge amounts of rain earlier in the summer, now the grass is brown and crusty, soil is rock hard and the trees are losing leaves. I've had to water all my new trees a lot just to keep them from stressing out. Temps have been on the cool side all summer. Hottest 2 days of the summer were yesterday and Monday! Go figure! 93F yesterday and it was really muggy...yucky. Cold front came through (NO RAIN) and the temp dropped like a rock all the way into the 40's last night... it was almost like someone turned on the AC...i was cold! I think next year will be a bad apple year for this area. I think a late summer drought is bad for next years buds.
Heineken-
Wait until that thing starts moving. Models are all wacked out over this storm. I think once she gets moving northward, they should have a better handle. Gustav remnants were suppose to go well to our east and have continued to trend westward and we might actually get wet (doubtful)...
If i was to survive on my garden this year i'd be dead tomorrow. _________________ Clothing should be optional.
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 766 Location: northern California
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Heineken wrote:
They've changed the forecast. Looks like Hanna will be wanting to bounce back out to sea. Eastern Virginia will get some rain, but not much where I am. Oh well. Sigh.
Cross your fingers, Heineken, you might get some weather yet--if not from Hanna, then maybe more than you'd ever imagine, from Ike, now a cat 4 projected to go up the east coast... _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6623 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Summer Weather 2008
Frank and Dune, as hopeless as I may sound at time, I never completely abandon hope. It's always there like an ember in a woodstove with a long-dead fire that you were certain could contain only cold ashes. _________________ "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
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