Your summer weather report
Still hot. Thunderstorm rolling in.
We get afternoon thunderstorms everyday in the spring. And I mean everyday. You can always tell who is newly assigned to the area as they will leave their car windows cracked or soft tops down because it is so freaking hot. And they have a nice wet surprise at the end of the day.
Hot and humid...humid and hot...:thepain:
Obviously not summer here, but am just getting my head around the following concept...we've got a couple of new staff members from England. I happened to walk out the front door at the same time as one of them the other day and I made a comment about how the sky was grey and it was cold and yukky (what a miserable day it was, blah, blah). What I'm grappling with is that our cold, grey day here is equivalent to quite a pleasant summer's day in London (so I'm told).
...give me a moment while I indulge my incredulessness....thanks...next post now.
Perspective casi, perspective.
Thats all I got for your "next post"
we were on notice for a
derecho today apparently, but it didn't come together.
So interesting new word learned:)
Scary new weather phenomena that could kill us any moment:eek:
( It's like a tornado, but in a straight line instead of swirling)
Yah that went north of me. Thanks for the new word. Too bad you posted the link
>cloud picture in treasure hunt 10 ;)
( It's like a tornado, but in a straight line instead of swirling)
Ah yes, one of the stupidest words in Spanish. Straight directional:
derecho. Right directional:
derecha.
Seriously, they couldn't come up with a completely different word there so people could give adequate directions, and let the word that sounds very nearly like
right mean ocean or somesuch instead?
Ah yes, one of the stupidest words in Spanish. Straight directional: derecho. Right directional: derecha.
Seriously, they couldn't come up with a completely different word there so people could give adequate directions, and let the word that sounds very nearly like right mean ocean or somesuch instead?
And just to really confuse things, derecho also means law and derechos means rights.
Perspective casi, perspective.
Thats all I got for your "next post"
In my life, perspective has to be timetabled in.:D
Summer weather forecast for my area:
Sucky with a chance of suck.
Ah yes, one of the stupidest words in Spanish. Straight directional: derecho. Right directional: derecha.
Seriously, they couldn't come up with a completely different word there so people could give adequate directions, and let the word that sounds very nearly like right mean ocean or somesuch instead?
you should rite about that
We're getting monster's storm now.
FUCKING TREE JUST FELL ON MY FUCKING CAR
FUCKING TREE JUST FELL ON MY FUCKING CAR
You and Lj are very lucky people - except with the cars. Your combined luck with vehicles sends shivers down my spine.
Still - trashing your cars seems a small price to pay for all the other good stuff in your life. :)
I'm freaking out man
that's understandable - but no one was IN the car, right?
they're ok. I couldn't get them for a few minutes there. bad storm, no cell service, power out.
you get dependent on this instant contact thing we've achieved with today's tech.
Wow that shit just rolled through here! Holy Crap - the streets a river.
jinx just got cell service back....
said the storm is fast and violent. dropped to 73 degrees there. took a bunch of trees down, and power is out.
Car is fine. maybe scratches, but no dents... it was a tree LIMB. thank fsm.
the angry storm gods are over Cherry Hill....
that's over the WalMart in Elverson, actually. jinx took that shot.
SRSLY? the one you just had fixed?
Just for a refresher,
this is my favorite radar link.
It's like an ugly red boil. A pox on the Cellar.
ah, it's from West Virginia...no good comes from there.
You and Lj are very lucky people - except with the cars
Can I get a rAmen?! I swear my car is a bigger shit magnet than my husband.
We raced home ahead of this thing, foolishly thinking we might get the groceries in the house before it really hit... made it to about 5 houses down and a big limb came down and bounced off the front of the car (right front corner - again!). One tiny dent, 2 small scratches. Meh.
Trees down everywhere, and cut hay hanging off the power lines like party favors, it's pretty crazy. Just got power back.
shame you already entered your cloud in the treasure hunt
It's a bit freakishly warm here on the west coast where I'm at. The weather is a very nice, dry mid-70's for the 5 day week, and then as soon as the weekend hits the temperature start rocketing up to the mid-high 80's to low 90's. That's hot hot hot when you don't have air conditioning at home and your place is insulated like a garbage bag. When temps get above around 75, heat just begins to build up inside, so that by the time it's 80 outside, it's creepign towards 90 inside. Ugh.
I swear my car is a bigger shit magnet than my husband.
I don't quite know what to do with this quote yet, but I love it :lol:
Did you catch the full moon last night ?
We've had only a couple of cloudless nights all year and it was a treat.
Yesterday was the first really warm day this season here in PDX, and once our resident morning clouds move on we should have another very nice summer day.
Oh yes, the dog is getting over it's kennel cough, so all's right in our world.
Wow, I've never seen storm damage like this. I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym thru the maze of downed trees and power lines and closed roads. Power is still out on many areas - tons of lines down with no one even working on them yet. Apparently lightning caused 3 house fires in the area. I saw one house with a tree laying on it, and read there there are quite a few more just like it.
rained again today. cloudy all day. cool, 60s. I miss summer already.
I had heard 70mph winds,
but they might have hit 90. Whook.
In all, about 350,000 customers lost power as a result of that line of thunderstorms that flashed through the region at lightning speed on Thursday, ripping apart trees from Glenmoore, Chester County, to Hammonton, N.J., and generating winds rarely experienced around here. Gusts reached 75 m.p.h. in Philadelphia, 60, in Camden County, and perhaps 90 in Chester County.
Some of the winds might have hit 90 m.p.h. in Chester County, where Glenmoore was particularly hard hit, said Gigi. "That's just as strong as the winds get around here."
The 215,000 service interruptions in the PECO territory made this one of the biggest outage events ever - No. 11 on the all-time list. About 130,000 Public Service Gas & Electric customers lost power.
Why were the winds so ferocious?
The amazing rapidity of the storms' movement - 55 m.p.h. - certainly was a factor, as was the heat, since storms are fueled by warm air from the surface rising over cooler air. But just as the heat reached a peak in the afternoon and the official thermometer at Philadelphia International Airport hit 97, the highest reading since June 10, 2008, drier air moved in at mid-levels of the atmosphere, said Tony Gigi, a storm specialist at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly.
As the downdraft rain fell into the drier air, some of it evaporated. When water evaporates, it gives off a cooling effect; that's basically how sweating cools the body. In this case, the massive amount of evaporation gave an extra kick to the downdraft winds, which billowed the tarp at Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies were hosting Cleveland.
The Philadelphia temperature plummeted 26 degrees within an hour right before the rains arrived, and the airport measured a 75 m.p.h. gust.
Wow, Jinx! You guys back East have all the fun. Out here in the desert Southwest it won't dare to rain until the monsoon season in August. Meanwhile highs in the 90's and humidity non-existant.
Hardly any damage here, but I think the last lot probably got anything that was good for the getting.....
Thousands in this area won't be getting power restored until late Sunday, meanwhile, mid 90's and humid.
Coming back from Blue Ball, I tried to avoid traffic by taking back roads through Chester and Delaware Counties. Big mistake.
Jinx, I now understand why you might like a vehicle that could climb a tree. wow.
IT IS FUCKING HOT HERE== that is all.
holey moley :eek:
jinx and lj, I'm sure you've used up all of your bad luck for the next 10 years.
Nah, we were very nearly unscathed. The people with crushed cars and houses, and those still without electricity had the real bad luck.
Pieces of a building/roof in Philly took out a whole block of cars...
We only have street trees here - the places around with big tall trees will be cleaning up for a long time.
;) A very good perspective to have.
With the economy today, and after having panic attacks yesterday, I too had to think of the positive, as if thinking about people with mortgages foreclosing and people exhausting their 401 ks, have to be in way more stress than I.
I at least do not have as far to fall as some.
That is my weather report. Fair to partly cloudy. lol
I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym
this is why I love jinx.
I also love her coz she gave me sox.
Cashmere sox.
Nah, we were very nearly unscathed.
Yeah, i was gonna say.... if any luck got used then, it was good luck. Glad the tree limbs didn't cause you to crash, or hit the windshield or something.
:: knocks on wood ::
Roads that were open yesterday were closed today. Power is still out all over. Tons of lines still down, no one working on them.
I was able to get thru here yesterday, and earlier today, but not on my way home tonight.
I'm gonna get jim to video some of our commute tomorrow.
Did you catch the full moon last night ?
We've had only a couple of cloudless nights all year and it was a treat.
And the partial eclipse, about 4 a.m. Clapped the binocs on it, admired the sooty-dark limb of the obscured moon through them -- there was enough refracted Earth-light you could pick out the rest of the disc.
Temp near 100 and very humid, forecast for Sunday... 20,000 homes still without power in SE PA and 13,000 in south Jersey.
my mom just got power at 7:30 tonight. I almost had to clean my whole house so she could come over and take a shower.
phew!
And the partial eclipse, about 4 a.m. Clapped the binocs on it, admired the sooty-dark limb of the obscured moon through them -- there was enough refracted Earth-light you could pick out the rest of the disc.
Good for you UG. I didn't know it was coming and so I missed it.
There was one a couple of years ago that my grandson and I stayed up to see, and it was well worth while. We both enjoyed the time waiting for it.
Hot and humid...humid and hot...:thepain:
And not in that
good way.
the tornado pics remind me of my time living in Kansas. Saw some wild weather there for sure. Once I remember standing out on the back porch of my apartment talking on the radio(ham radio) and I said "Hey, i don't mean to.. alarm anybody, but.. I see this.. skyhook coming down right here, I mean it's RIGHT here!" I was scoffed at, because there were no warnings or watches. Turns out, the NWS "forgot" to issue the county the warning. What I saw was, in fact, a skyhook - right over the hospital three blocks away. Luckily, as it started twirling down to the ground, it suddenly caught a powerful gust of wind and just.. blew away.
I saw a PECO crew with 5 trucks today, a quarter mile from my house. They were pulled over chatting where there was no damage, in fact there were no power lines along that road. Now it was very hot and humid, and they've probable been putting long hours, but it was mid-afternoon and it looks bad. Just sayin'. :eyebrow:
Heavy rain and thunderstorms today. By the time I left work, all the rain had gotten off the ground and back into the air.
Just got back from a lunchtime walk. It's pretty nice out there. Low to mid 70's. Partly sunny. Low humidity. It could use a gently breeze, but I'm not complaining.
welcome back - how was your trip?
OH and today is freakin gorgeous - mid 60's, sunny and sweet.
It has also been very nice here in Chicago the last couple of days. Low humidity and 70s. I walked down to the river yesterday and stood and watched the boats go by. It's like a mini-vacation.
There's a hurricane coming up from the Gulf. Won't really affect us, other than keeping the current thunderstorms going all through 4th of July weekend.
There's a hurricane coming up from the Gulf. Won't really affect us, other than keeping the current thunderstorms going all through 4th of July weekend.
In Dallas, we whined that hurricanes blew the "painful, biting" mosquitoes up from the Gulf. Of course, the resident blood suckers didn't bite at all...
Low humidity and low 70s here too. We pool people prefer nearer 80s and a little less breeze, but we'll take it....
Local temps creeping up into the low eighties inland, the coastline where I am consistently at least 5 F cooler. It now being July, perhaps we might dispense with the "June Gloom," daily overcast, O Lord? And get some real summer goin'?
Anthropogenic Global Warming doesn't seem to be really pushing matters around here the last few years. It feels like there are more cooler days than there had been.
KYW said nice and cool today and tomorrow, then heat and humidity rising over the weekend, going to 96 and muggy again on Monday.
...with no precipitation in sight.
high of 66. rained overnight and this morning. cloudy now. again. still. duh.
bad link Jim - try
this one instead
high of 62 deg.
steady rain.
The most rain I have seen all year so far.
rain yesterday, and too cold to do yardwork in a tshirt when it wasn't actually raining. not raining now/yet but still cold. I mowed yesterday but the rain picked up when I broke to reload the string trimmer, so I quit for the day. I'll have to wear a jacket or sweatshirt and a hat to go finish this morning.
It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty...
Monkey's bum. . . makes one helluva fondue!
Summer? Pffft. We never even got a spring.
June in SW WA was reportedly the second wettest June EVAR. :eyebrow:
Since the first day of summer, it's been cloudy, overcast, damp, drizzly, and chilly, just about every day.
My garden is a pile of shit this year and I'm none too pleased about it.
Not to mention, the odd weather has, for unknown reasons, increased the number of %$#@! critters around my place. The deer have been here pretty much daily, eating my 30+ rose bushes down to sticks (in the years prior to this, deer had foraged my yard precisely three times). The rabbits and rabbitettes have consumed all my hostas. The coyotes have grabbed seven of my hens. The moles have turned my raised beds and my lawn into a freakin' moonscape. And the chipmunks (which were something of a rarity around here) have had an astounding population explosion - I've caught five and killed another six. Finally, gray squirrels have arrived. Never saw them in this neck of the woods before.
Fuckers!
Oddly enough, the snakes and voles seem to have disappeared completely. Weerie.
Dang Glinda you need an Australian Cattle Dog. They love to hunt!
QUICK GLINDA!!!
GO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW!!! I just saw my shadow! I'm sure it was my shadow, I looked it up on the intarwebz. So cool!
Second 90+degree day on the run here.... several more forecast. Swim-A-Thon tomorrow may not need to be postponed due to weather for the first time in recent memory....
59 deg now, and clear and sunny. predicted high of 77! waaahhhhhoooooo!
ferfuxache Its already in the mid 90's and supposed to stay there thru Thursday.
Well, at least I can feel like I'm in a tropical paradise.
It's pretty hot here. But it's not humid. Rather unusual.
92 F out, dayamn it is getting serious. Forecast says 98 is tops for today. It is 100.3 at Kopernik Observatory (local weather station).
Bring on the heat! This week upper 80s. I am going to love some sustained warmth.
Heh. It is now 8:30 PM, mostly dark outside... and it's still 89 degrees.
The TV station was running a poll... would you rather have 100 degree heat, or 2 feet of snow? The results were 50/50. Are you fucking kidding me? If it's 100 degrees for a day or two, then it cools off, and you don't have to shovel it.:rolleyes:
I vote snow!
We have heating here but not air conditioning (generally)
It's been hot and dry here by English standards.
Hose pipe bans being mooted.
Today it's overcast but still 24.8 according to my thermometer (76.6)
Yes - this is hot, actually.
I'm happiest around 18 (64.4). With a breeze.
But we're being promised a BBQ summer.
Sigh.
Ah well, we got a snowy winter. I s'pose I shouldn't complain.
I'd rather have the heat, but it seems to get more annoying as I get older. How do all those old people move to FL? Maybe I have hot flashes in addition, and when I'm older I'll want to move to FL too.
Heat advisory next two days, like many of us in this section of the US. Drink plenty of water, folks!
The TV station was running a poll... would you rather have 100 degree heat, or 2 feet of snow? The results were 50/50. Are you fucking kidding me? If it's 100 degrees for a day or two, then it cools off, and you don't have to shovel it.:rolleyes:
Gimme snow!
Yesterday the AC seemed to fail about 5pm. Indoor temps climbed ten degrees. I rebooted it and it seemed to start working.
Any power trouble yesterday UT?
We don't have AC here since we think we live in the North... Time to start pricing property closer to Canada. Hmmm... Canadian banks are solvent.
I didn't think to measure the line voltage... actually come to think of it, my voltmeter is lost!
I didn't think to measure the line voltage... actually come to think of it, my voltmeter is lost!
I bet you were browning out.
Gimme snow!
Me too! I couldn't get a "heat day" from work if I tried. "snow day" ohhh yeah!
I bet you were browning out.
:headshake not touchin that
one. :headshake
Me too! I couldn't get a "heat day" from work if I tried. "snow day" ohhh yeah!
If you'd rather spend the day shoveling two feet of fucking snow than go to work, you should be looking for a new job... seriously. :eyebrow:
My power was down to 112 volts RMS yesterday, and seems to be the same today.
I have been - just unsuccessfully. I much prefer the cold to the heat. I can always add more clothes to keep warm.
Anyway - the official reading here at the moment is ....
Temp - - - - -100.6 °F
Heat Index- - 105 °F
69 deg when I woke up. expected to reach 89 later todayayayay!
Looks like summer.
Mexico and Central America are cooler than much of the US.
Hot. Friggin' Hot. With an extra side of even more Hot.
feh.
AND i'm going camping starting tomorrow.
real camping, with tents and stuff.
Looks like summer.
Mexico and Central America are cooler than much of the US.
But those word-shaped bits in Canada are 130 degrees Farenheit!
On my way home at 5:45pm
On my way home at 5:45pm
Can't fool us. That's the radio station. You're listening to Hard Rock 101 FM.
85 degrees inside and the voltage is 120.
Mebbe I got a problem
Now it's 81, and the pipes are a little hot/cold WTF
Whats going on? Which pipes are hot? IS there cold air blowing? Icing up anywhere?
When it stops cooling, the input and output pipes are the same temp... now the hot pipe is hot and the cold pipe is cold and it's 5 degrees colder than it was when I first reported in, although it's still about 6 degrees hotter than it should be and it's 9:30. I haven't taken off the thingie to check for ice but that is a good idea.
I keep wondering whether it would help to spray down the outdoor coils with water. I hear this is a new technology, heat pumps that help themselves cool with a mist.
is it a new system? Whens the last time the coils were cleaned?
Had a recharge recently? Are you checking at the outdoor unit or the blower?
How is the air flow -does it feel like the normal amount coming out and is it cold?
At the blower, I just took off the thingie and the coils are cold but not ice-cold. Airflow is pretty normal but maybe warmer than it should be. It was recharged last year, both outdoor and indoor unit are like 10 years. The thing is a fuckin' nightmare and always has been.
85 degrees inside and the voltage is 120.
Mebbe I got a problem
♪♫ Summertime, and the volts are 120. ♪♫
Yesterday's high of 90 surpassed the old record of 88 set in 1953. Today we're expecting to reach 94 degrees, just before the city bursts into flames.
Just been sat outside with the 'rents.
Was a horribly low-clouded humid day earlier, but we had sunshine from about 16.00 - which is when the sun finally hits the decking here.
About 27, (82) but curiously felt okay.
Probably because we were drinking Pimms and lemonade with lots of ice and fruit!
95 f. right now! whoo hoo.
we were on notice for a derecho today apparently, but it didn't come together.
So interesting new word learned:)
Scary new weather phenomena that could kill us any moment:eek:
( It's like a tornado, but in a straight line instead of swirling)
and again...
Very grateful it didn't develop! I was half-expecting to come out of the hospital at the end of the day to find my car upside down somewhere in the football stadium (the football stadium is at the end of the hospital parking lot). And that'd be the least of anyone's worries, of course. So, glad it failed to come together.
I'd just arrived here last year when the superstorm that apparently was a derecho came through. We were at a welcome party for all the new residents, sitting in a faculty member's backyard under a big rented tent that accommodated 100, with rented tables, chairs, etc. We saw the storm coming, looked at each other, said WTF and repaired to the basement. Some of the tables were flung against the fence at the edge of the yard and remained, but the chairs went awol and the tent simply disappeared. And we lost power for more than 24 hours and I got to use my hand-cranked radio for the first time! Even better, it worked. :)
We had a nice storm last night. Nothing as severe as what I remember from Kansas City growing up. But there was lightning and hail and wind. It was nice. No damage to speak of, so even better.
Hunker down, Cellar peeps. It's going to be a wild one.
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its like a convection oven here hot and windy
Like early October here. Overcast, cool and windy.
The storms have passed. That was fun to listen to.
Up here in the North, we've been on broil now since mid June. 29 degrees doesn't sound bad, but add the humidex of 38-42 celcius and it's horrendous. To make it all the more interesting, last week near Toronto, 2 people forgot their children in cars and they died. How sad.
Hot as your hat here.
And twice as sweaty. [COLOR="White"]This is a foreskin reference.[/COLOR]
In fact bought myself a Summer hat yesterday, off the market.
Usually when I come back from the shop in the mornings (I am officially the family paper girl now) I sneeze 10-15 times. Get in, eyes streaming, barely able to breathe and one or other of the 'rents will ask if I have a cold or hayfever. I then pound them to death with a mallet because it's a photic sneeze response and they should bloody well know this by now. I then write that above their corpse so SOCO know this too, but when they turn up they look and me and my watery eyes and ask if I have a cold or hayfever and....
Back in the real world, wearing the hat really helps. I was shopping for one that shaded my eyes.
I'd post a photo, but I seem to have taken over the RFN thread and might leave it for a while.
Up here in the North, we've been on broil now since mid June. 29 degrees doesn't sound bad, but add the humidex of 38-42 celcius and it's horrendous. To make it all the more interesting, last week near Toronto, 2 people forgot their children in cars and they died. How sad.
I don't think it's sad at all that people who forget their children die, and so much the better that they bake slowly in their cars, the stupid fuckers.
Hey, FYI
The adults lived-the kids died
I got it.
I was venting my spleen by sarcastically misreading your slightly ambiguous statement.
How the FUCK do you forget your kid long enough for them to die?! I know it happens--"I forgot" doesn't cut it. I'd rather not start... You shouldn't be put in the position of defending their position.
I read an article about this phenomenon a while ago. It seems that for most of these incidents, the parents have a reputation for being very responsible with their kids, and that on the days these incidents happen, there is some sort of disruption to their regular daily routine. Often with fatigue involved.
I'd venture to guess that for virtually all of them, they are beating themselves up much more than you ever could.
Crazy storms in Pittsburgh this morning - roads flooded, mudslides, and trees down. We're expecting another band of them this evening. My cell phone keeps blaring out flash flood warnings.
Yesterday it was 98F/36.6C with a heat index of 110F/43.3C. Opening the car door was like standing at the gates of Hell. Eugh. Endeavoring to stay inside today.
Rain. We've had nothing but rain down here in NC. Flood warnings almost every day. It's getting a but old. Nothing like the rain stopping and then watching it all evaporate into humidity.
Finally a nice day 76F and not humid.
I read an article about this phenomenon a while ago. It seems that for most of these incidents, the parents have a reputation for being very responsible with their kids, and that on the days these incidents happen, there is some sort of disruption to their regular daily routine. Often with fatigue involved.
I'd venture to guess that for virtually all of them, they are beating themselves up much more than you ever could.
maybe. probably. I have a lot of empathy for harried parents, having been one for the most part of my adult life. I totally get it. The teeth-grinding hair-pulling tragedy of these particular kinds of incidents is that they are COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE. This isn't an accident. It's not intentional, no, but it is not an accident.
...
There's more spleen, but there's no more point. I'll drop it.
Don't drop it, it'll break.
Just arrived in Philadelphia from Tampa. It's only 71F here -- feels WONDERFUL compared to the 90F we left behind.
Thunderstorms yesterday evening and last night.
They were in the wrong direction and too far away for me to see any lightning, but I heard plently of thunder and smelled the rain.
Felt fresh this morning, but has heated up again today.
It's not the same oppressive heat, so I guess humidity might be down - I don't really know how to calculate that.
I'd prefer this morning's temperatures back though, thank you.
Here in Houston we are actually experiencing a rare late July cool front so yesterday we had some light rain throughout the day and night. And the temperatures are cooler by our standards, 70F/21C at night and only 90F/32F during the day when the sun is out. Almost like autumn! :thumb2:
What in the fuck. We finally get to the 10 days where we can go away, and within a 5-hour drive range in every direction, the forecast is freezing for the next 10 days. We want to play in the water and frolic in the forests. we want mid 80s in the day, 70 at night. We want, we want, we want........
