[KStrawn]

gfhq94a, on 18 October 2009 - 07:28 PM, said:

Adama, on 04 January 2008 - 02:39 AM, said:

The Weather has been crazy-weird as of lately. Here in Nor-Cal we're having a lot of rain, and are expecting a really bad storm which has been brewing since last night.

They expect 8 feet of snow in Lake Tahoe - that's a lot of snow!

They're predicting floods in certain areas that were hard hit a couple of years ago, so people are already preparing for it, with sand bags, etc.

We've had a lot of rain today and right now it's drizzling where I live. And it's been really windy. I had to go to the post office and at one point, my umbrella was turned inside out by the wind!

How about you - what kind of weather are You having where you live?

Well it was raining & breezy, but the rain has let up and I am not 100% sure about the winds.

Here, in Orange County, California, it is perfect. Yes it is cooling quite a bit, but it is nowhere near the freezing point.....

[MacMax]

Sunny and 65.

[MacMax]

It is a rather nice day overall...I should probably be outside rather than sitting inside!

[myloginname]

Crazy weather. One day its 0C(freezing point). the next day we're in t-shirts and its around 15C. wow....

[coastie65]

The from Thursday last week thru Sunday, it was cloudy damp and drizzly with the temps only in the 40's Yesterday was Sunny and in the 60's and in the 70's today. It will remain sunny and the temp will probably hit 80 by the end of the week. Guess it will be a good time to get some yard work done.

[KStrawn]

coastie65, on 20 October 2009 - 06:47 PM, said:

The from Thursday last week thru Sunday, it was cloudy damp and drizzly with the temps only in the 40's Yesterday was Sunny and in the 60's and in the 70's today. It will remain sunny and the temp will probably hit 80 by the end of the week. Guess it will be a good time to get some yard work done.

Quite funny how the rest of the nation is freezing their @$$es off while I in California am enjoying temps in the 70's!

[mjd420nova]

Had a big storm slam us yesterday in central California. Got over three inches of rain in three 15 minute bursts. I was coming down so fast it was running off the roof faster than the rain gutters could drain it off. The storm drains in the street were so full that the water was two inches deep, curb to curb. I thought I'd have to get out the Zodiac. Then before it got dark it had moved on to western Colorado. Talk about a fast mover.

This post has been edited by mjd420nova: 20 October 2009 - 06:31 PM

[techie4fun]

KStrawn, on 20 October 2009 - 07:57 PM, said:

coastie65, on 20 October 2009 - 06:47 PM, said:

The from Thursday last week thru Sunday, it was cloudy damp and drizzly with the temps only in the 40's Yesterday was Sunny and in the 60's and in the 70's today. It will remain sunny and the temp will probably hit 80 by the end of the week. Guess it will be a good time to get some yard work done.

Quite funny how the rest of the nation is freezing their @$$es off while I in California am enjoying temps in the 70's!

Doesn't California have humidity? 70's would feel more like the sticky 90s....

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[mjd420nova]

T4F: Yes, we do have humidity but it is usually quite low, less than 25 percent is normal. If it gets to 70 degrees and above 50 percent we really begin to feel it. In the winter, when the humidity gets above 50 percent and it gets cool in the mornings, that's when we get that dreaded fog. In the valley, where it is most common, it happens after a good rain and the moisture starts coming up off the wet ground, it gets very thick. They call it TOOLY FOG and is so thick you're lucky if you can see 100 feet. I've driven in it when it was so thick you could only see from one reflective marker in the lane to the next. You're forced to hug the right lane, follow the white line. Normally, the line follows an off ramp and is called a fog line. If all you can see is that line, it will take you on the off ramp which is good because you don't want to be on a freeway when it's that thick. There are idiots who will get over in the left lane and continue to do the speed limit, that's why you hear about the terrible multiple car wrecks.

[coastie65]

We have idiots like that back here in Va. If the speed limilt is 65, then they are going to run 65, regardless of the conditions. Snow and ice willl slow them down some as a rule. We are close top 80 if not at 80 with clear, blue, sunny skies. Tomorrow promises more of the same. Figures after having spent over $2000 for a new furnace.

[smax013]

Got up to 70 today. A rather nice day.

[coastie65]

It is nice and sunny and close to 80 at the moment. This is good as I need to go up on the roof and put my Anemometer back up.

[myloginname]

coastie65, on 22 October 2009 - 01:33 PM, said:

It is nice and sunny and close to 80 at the moment. This is good as I need to go up on the roof and put my Anemometer back up.

Lucky you! Weather's been crazy these days....sometimes its freezing cold, sometimes its boiling hot, and now its pouring rain!!!

[smax013]

It was a nice day today. Sunny and likely in the low 60s or upper 50s.

Of course, this meant I had to be a good boy and mow the lawn/"pick up" leaves. Fortunately, the tractor with a bagger did most of the work. Ended up with 49 bags of grass & leaves for them to pickup. Yeah!

[coastie65]

I has been a Gray, Damp, and breezy day with the temp only reaching the upper 40's. Just been between the computer and the PS3 today. Had planned on firing up the grill and put some Fillets on there to go with some Lobster tails ( Surf & Turf), but it was too wet so didn't.

[MacMax]

54, sunny and nice! Yippee!

[Slik]

Right now on the central Gulf Coast, we are bracing for a Category 1 Hurricane Ida. Our hurricanes are the lesser equivalent of the Midwest's tornadoes (Hurricanes do spawn tornadoes.) and the West Coast's earthquakes and wildfires. The US Northeast has it's heavy snow and Nor'easter's. We only have snow here about every 4-5 years and never have droughts. All-in-all, I will take a hurricane (preferably a fast moving one; tornadoes are so random and powerful that all you can do is hunker down and kiss your butt goodbye.) over all that other stuff. The effects of a typical hurricane last for about 3-4 days from announcement to cleanup. Ida should be over within 18 hours. Some years we get 3-5; this year so far, only Ida. It seems that the Western Pacific has caught the most hell from repeated typhoons. I wish someone would tell me why there is so much variablity in powerful wind/rain events from year to year. Also, I would like to know why the TV weatherman plants his fat butt directly in front of the weather map when what you really want to see is the storm track and probable landfall. (I can forgive the attractive female meteorologists (in front of the weather map) because I am a male chauvinist pig.) Also our main cable weather channel has been taken over by Cox Communications for self-promoting advertisements when all we really want to know is the time, date, current temperature and whether and when it is going to rain tomorrow. I get better direct weather info and weather maps on my laptop's ISP homepage drop-down weather sub-screen, with only small visual advertisements I can ignore.

[myloginname]

i've been busy latley i haven't been on for weeks. the weather has just suddenly warmed up...it was 20C today... tomorrow rain is expected and will be down to 11C, to think a couple of days ago it was close to snowing

[Slik]

Now see. There you go again. Here in the USA, we express temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit, weight in pounds and ounces and distances in inches, feet, yards and miles. Our GPS coordinates are in degrees, minutes and seconds (or decimal equivalents) WRT the Greenwich meridian. We call this the British Engineering system (BES). If I want to know the equivalent info in Metric terms, I have to reach for a calculator. Elsewhere in this hemisphere, there is also a mixed bag of coordinates and physical data references. In some places they drive on the left side of the road.<<<<=====A good way to get killed until you adapt. My IEEE journal gives such data in Metric terms with the BES info in parentheses. It is like the earlier posts about the ICANN changes in the Internet .com, .org, extensions and type fonts in Chinese ideographics, Cyrillic, Urdu and Sanskrit. I expect soon that PCWorld may modify this forum to be in similar character sets and fonts. Upon that day, I'll have to discontinue reading and posting here (I hear those gleeful shouts of laughter and cries of joy.), because I won't be able to understand what is being written. When my PCWorld magazine arrives in Chinese, I will have to get a larger mail box to hold the copy, unless Chinese ideographs come in a reduced character set. I may even have to get the Rosetta Stone language CD's to learn how to speak in Ubuntu and Google-ese. Perhaps we could revert to binary and hexadecimal.<<<====What does all this have to do with the weather?? BTW, the advance rain cells of Tropical Storm Ida have just begun. TS Ida gave all of the area schools and public employees an excuse to take off work until Thursday. The school administrators cite the possibility of school buses being trapped in low-lying pools of stormwater runoff. I expect our local land taxes may be increased to equip the school buses with flotation devices and to teach the children and drivers how to swim. Did you know that a small child can drown in 2 inches (5.08 centimeters) of water? Left exposed outdoors up North in the snow, a small child can freeze to death in weather below 32 degrees F (0 degrees C). It's not nice to fool (or fool with) Mother Nature!!

This post has been edited by Slik: 09 November 2009 - 05:15 PM

[coastie65]

Well, we are getting hammered with Rain and some wind ( not too bad). The temp is about 45 ( they had snow in the mountains this morning). They are expecting 50MPH+ Wind gusts by this afternoon and into tonight. Fortunately, a lot of leaves are off the trees so maybe they will stay up. My Company that has been visiting is stil here as they decided to sit tight rather than travel in this mess. They are ready to start heading back to Oregon as they have been gone for a month or so now. They were planning on a stop in Ohio and Indiana on the way back ( They took the Southern route on the way over).