Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6178 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Winter Weather 2007-08
This thread is the natural extension of the popular "Autumn Weather 2007" thread, now defunct. Stick your winter weather reports here from around the globe!
My central Virginia property (where I live) is still in drought, but we have reasonable surface moisture from a series of light rainfalls. A jumbo rain in October (almost 5 inches) rescued us from what our boy emperor might call "serious consequences," but there's been little rain since (November gave us less than 1 inch). My southern Virginia property is still really dry. I was down there last weekend cutting trails with a brush mower and the dust was so bad I had to stop.
Basically the same high-pressure dome that's been sitting over the SE US all year is still there, diverting the lion's share of precipitation clockwise around it.
We may get some rain tomorrow and over the weekend.
Temperature-wise, we've been all over the board. Hard to say whether we're running above or below average.
Please remember to give your geographic location! _________________ "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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Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3451 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
Hey I was going to start this thread in 10 days....have you always suffered from pre-mature QWERTY syndrome or is this a new GW induced illness? _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
It's around 0C outside in southern Finland. No snow and it's dark outdoors like in medieval times. Hope we'll get a white christmas this year. Not looking good.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
I can't complain here. We've had some wonderfully cold weather with ample precipitation. I'm hoping the negative effects of the summer drought will be balanced out soon.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
Up here,no drought but below normal temps for about a month.It's gonna snow later today to the tune of about 5 inches.It's been hard trying to conserve fuel when there's 3 other people living under the same roof.Below normal temps are forecast for a least the next seven days.Certainly not like last december.Maybe i'll just use a shovel later today and try to conserve on the gas my snowblower uses.January is right around the corner and "the long dark of Moria"is almost here.Hang in there everybody! _________________ Gimme some demand destruction.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
Currently 58F but supposed to be colder this weekend maybe down to 35F.Here in SW GA we will take any bit of spit of rain Mother nature ses fit to throw our way.This year will probably go in the books as the driest ever for GA unless we get 4+ inches before Jan.1.I rotate my pastures and always have but they resemble a desert more than a pasture at this point.I'd take snow at this point(I hate snow) just for the wet factor!
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6178 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
horsestoaster wrote:
Currently 58F but supposed to be colder this weekend maybe down to 35F.Here in SW GA we will take any bit of spit of rain Mother nature ses fit to throw our way.This year will probably go in the books as the driest ever for GA unless we get 4+ inches before Jan.1.I rotate my pastures and always have but they resemble a desert more than a pasture at this point.I'd take snow at this point(I hate snow) just for the wet factor!
As I suggested in the OP, the starvation of "south" for precipitation in the Southeast is clearly apparent just within my one state. Ever since I bought it in July, my southside-VA property has received less rain---and sometimes far less rain or none at all---out of every rainfall event than my central-VA property, which is only about 70 miles to the north.
The pattern is really astonishingly consistent. You'd think there'd be at least one minor exception during this six-month period, but no. _________________ "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 16, 2004 Posts: 4280 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
We're running the coldest December since 2000. That year saw some EXTREME cold later on. This year looks to be different. After a last push of polar air Friday, i think the heat gets turned back on and we go above freezing next week (something that hasn't happened for over a week). It seemed we were destined for the snowiest December on record, but after some misses i don't think that will happen. We still are sitting at over 10 inches of snow for the month, which is more then i can remember for this month in a long time.
Couple of maps that show the core of the cold has been in the nations icebox of N MN/N Dakota. Also shows all the precip that has fallen up here. Somewhat strange after a very dry fall.
Next week that polar air should drop pretty far south, so maybe Heinekin can get in on the action? That storm should also dislodge some of that chill in Canada and make the heating bill a little smaller for me. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 616 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007
Heineken wrote:
horsestoaster wrote:
Currently 58F but supposed to be colder this weekend maybe down to 35F.Here in SW GA we will take any bit of spit of rain Mother nature ses fit to throw our way.This year will probably go in the books as the driest ever for GA unless we get 4+ inches before Jan.1.I rotate my pastures and always have but they resemble a desert more than a pasture at this point.I'd take snow at this point(I hate snow) just for the wet factor!
As I suggested in the OP, the starvation of "south" for precipitation in the Southeast is clearly apparent just within my one state. Ever since I bought it in July, my southside-VA property has received less rain---and sometimes far less rain or none at all---out of every rainfall event than my central-VA property, which is only about 70 miles to the north.
The pattern is really astonishingly consistent. You'd think there'd be at least one minor exception during this six-month period, but no.
I can certainly back that up from my vantage point here in Atlanta...the high pressure really is locked in over us with blazing sun day after day after day, seemingly without end. A few clouds in the morning, a few in the afternoon is about the best we can do right now. And this winter heat wave is one for the record books..today will be the 6th day of having highs in the 70's...mid 70's for 3 days in a row. 64 F here right at the moment, but that's only b/c of the light cloud cover we have right now.
Sure, it's supposed to get colder (after the rain that is forecast...keeping fingers crossed on this one!), but it'll still be blazing sun all next week, with temps making their inexorable march upward.
As for what might happen in January...I can only hope that the polar jet can shift far enough south to give us some of that juicy stuff the northern states have been having...otherwise, I fear that the winter blowtorch will be turned up to "turbo", blasting 80-degree winds up into north Georgia under desert-blue skies. Believe me, in this pattern, this is very possible.
At least my combined gas and electric bills will probably reach a record low...hehe. No heat, no AC, no fans, and it's perfectly pleasant inside the house. Funny to be wearing shorts while decorating the tree too... _________________ Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...
...and the meek shall inherit the Earth!
Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5143 Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
We are currently in the upper 30s in east Texas, but it's been oscillating wildly. I haven't looked at data so I don't know how anomalous our weather is lately, but I do know some of the trees are confused and trying to bloom. It's not the dogwoods, it's some other tree with small white flowers. They think it's spring. We also had tomatoes and peppers blooming and fruiting in November. _________________ "Every junkie's like a setting sun..." - Neil Young
Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 4280 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Someone flipped the switch!
I think La Nina type winters are usually dry in the southeast. I noticed a few days ago it was 80F in Charlotte? What the hell! I want some of that. My furnace has been on around the clock for weeks now. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Your weather down there in Georgia can only be described as scary.Everytime i hear about what's happening your way i can't help but think Al Gore is right.But on the other hand i don't think the dust bowl of the '30's could be attributed to GW.If i doesn't rain pretty soon,i can see a migration starting to develop.Hang in there! _________________ Gimme some demand destruction.
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