That's just boring!Hey, it's better than the psychotic weather Oklahoma normally gets. Though the sunny weather isn't helping with the drought.
It was over 40C here today...
It was over 40C here today...
Heavier than shit to shovel.
My back hurts.
It was over 40C here today...
I feel concern for people there who bicycle to work.Riding to work isn't too bad, because the heat of the day has not built up. Riding home in the late afternoon again avoids peak temperatures, but is still hot. The key to hot-weather riding is hydration; I carry a minimum of 750ml of water on my handlebars, adding more water and hydration salts as required by the ride-distance and temperature.
According to the U.S. National Weather Service, my little city's supposed to get progressively snowier *and* warmer as the week goes on.
I don't...I'm getting mixed signals here.
It's also about 1/6 less thermal energy than normal room temperature (referenced to Kelvin temp)...which means any air would lose 1/6 of its volume. Yeah, I think you're lucky to get by with a pulled muscle.Speaking of that: My car has one of those dashboard readouts that lets you cycle through various pieces of info about the car's status. It also doesn't let me tell it that I can't really do anything about the air compression due to the weather. I just need to wait until temperatures rise over sub-zero before it'll stop warning me about the tires.
OU? Is that the same OU I'm at where it's currently 70 degrees?It's also about 1/6 less thermal energy than normal room temperature (referenced to Kelvin temp)...which means any air would lose 1/6 of its volume. Yeah, I think you're lucky to get by with a pulled muscle.Speaking of that: My car has one of those dashboard readouts that lets you cycle through various pieces of info about the car's status. It also doesn't let me tell it that I can't really do anything about the air compression due to the weather. I just need to wait until temperatures rise over sub-zero before it'll stop warning me about the tires.
Also? F*** OU's parking. There's really nothing that could be done about it, but still...
where it's currently 70 degrees?... No.
So it's not Oklahoma... Ohio or Oregon, then?where it's currently 70 degrees?... No.
Speaking of snow, one of our very own forumites was in the news recently...
FYP. I think you got an extra side of Copypasta with your order.Speaking of snow, one of our very own forumites was in the news recently...
Ah, I've only just seen this, and I've posted it in another thread somewhere...but ahw shucks. It's only local news.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photo_gallery_snow_brings_out_people_s_human_kindness_now_tell_us_your_examples_1_1793634 (http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photo_gallery_snow_brings_out_people_s_human_kindness_now_tell_us_your_examples_1_1793634)
I think you got an extra side of Copypasta with your order.
I feel concern for people there who bicycle to work.Riding to work isn't too bad, because the heat of the day has not built up. Riding home in the late afternoon again avoids peak temperatures, but is still hot. The key to hot-weather riding is hydration; I carry a minimum of 750ml of water on my handlebars, adding more water and hydration salts as required by the ride-distance and temperature.
The snow was heavy when I was coming down the mountain, and I saw a highway-size plow and salt truck in the ditch with a car tangled in it's side. I'm guessing the car was passing, and the plow was changing lanes to get to the turnaround.
Fail on both sides.
[...]We had a drift against the house that sealed both the front and back doors shut (they were on the same side of the house).[...]Front and back ... same side ... is that even legal?
[...]snow piles that lasted through the summer and got snowed on the next winter[...]
I hope you have your Worry Hat nearby. Not only is it good against anxiety, but it looks like it should be pretty warm.
Now I'm imagining what it'd be like if it rained powdered sugar. >_>
This is why it may be best I never experience snow....
Boy. I came here to complain about the 3 or so inches of snow we have had on the sidewalks for two days.
I leave. Humbled. :psyduck:
Hah, you thought he was in Ireland. Lawlz.Okay, that always gets my craw. How in the #### is it that a country located north of 50 degrees north latitude have temps in the 80's (F) when it's about a quarter of that temp a quarter of the world away to the West?This is Phoenix, Arizona I'm talking about.
Three inches of snow overnight, gone by 3 PM. Clear, sunny - and tonight, clear and temps in the teens fahrenheit (-10 C).
Yeah, spring's here.
Three inches of snow overnight, gone by 3 PM. Clear, sunny - and tonight, clear and temps in the teens fahrenheit (-10 C).
Yeah, spring's here.
Wow...I'm sorry, how far north of the Arctic Circle do you live?
I useta live in Rhinebeck. Good memories, especially sledding at the Mills estate (http://www.hvnet.com/houses/mills/). The hills out back rolled right down to the river...
Okay, that always gets my craw. How in the #### is it that a country located north of 50 degrees north latitude have temps in the 80's (F) when it's about a quarter of that temp a quarter of the world away to the West?
The gods apparently did not get enough laughs by dumping snow over great portions of the country, so they sent some to the Phoenix, Arizona area. (http://i.azcentral.com/commphotos/view/665992.jpg)back when we were living in the asylum that is Arizona (due to my dad's work) I experienced snow, a few days before christmas 2010. One of the two times I've ever seen it.
I get mood swings with such a depressing sky.The worst is when you are just starting to wake up and feel like crap. I don't even have to open my eyes to know the sky looks like crap.
...I maybe should explain that I am from Rochester NY which averages 95 inches of snow and has 200 "cloud cover days" (more than 3/4 of the sky is cloud) a year.
I want to move further north. Who knows where. Maybe Canada. Or maybe somewhere like Russia or Germany. I like it cold and snowy!
Carl, it sounds like you and I have pretty similar weather patterns. A few friends joke that the Hudson Valley is the only place you can experience all 4 seasons in one week.
Here in Indiana we have more snow scheduled for this weekend. I'm over it.
5-10 year plan, move to Puerto Rico.
Here in Oklahoma I've heard that quote, except referring to Oklahoma instead of Indiana, attributed (probably falsely) to Will Rogers.Carl, it sounds like you and I have pretty similar weather patterns. A few friends joke that the Hudson Valley is the only place you can experience all 4 seasons in one week.
Oh thank God. We joke about that in Indiana too, only it goes something like "Indiana! If you don't like the weather...wait ten minutes." Least that's how I've always heard it. Freakin' winter-to-spring transition is usually the worst about it.
I asked Google and it says the quote is from Mark Twain and originally referred to New England, although the sources I found suggest that attribution may be suspicious as well.As a New-Englander, I've heard that quote my entire life, but I didn't bother to ponder whether it was originally referring to this area...or who penned it.
I just woke up and looked out of the window.
Snow.
Well, that's true - it's getting a bit old, though.
Duh, it even says that in the title.
perhaps I should change the title,
It's m*********ing spring, can we get some spring weather already?
And I verified that my car is okay at least.I spoke too soon on that one. Got into my car yesterday and noticed a small crack in the windshield that is really hard to see from the outside...
Grrrr.... Going to take the dog out and it's too hot for jeans.....
Idk, maybe you just inspire poetry in me or something. But reading a paragraph in verse is incredibly annoying, and not something that really ever happens to me. :psyduck:
-16.Farenheit? In April? Ugh!
Why? o_O Fungus is yucky.
*googles*
they look like something that would kill me slowly and painfully, enjoying every minute of it and feasting on my remains. :psyduck:
They're the swellest <3
poem
but it's a swollen axolotl
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM CDT SATURDAY...
* SNOW WILL ARRIVE BY LATE EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY MORNING. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BE MIXED WITH SLEET AT TIMES.
* 3 TO 6 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED.
IMPACTS...
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...WIND GUSTS 70 TO 80 MPH...AND
TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH DISCRETE SUPERCELLS. DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE GREATEST CONCERNS WITH STORMS ALONG
A COLD FRONT.
Currently 75 headed to over 80 today with some rain. Mushrooms any time.$50/pound? Wow, we probably ate thousands of dollars worth of those things when I was a kid...
Some mushrooms I found last night in the spoiler.(click to show/hide)
Some mushrooms I found last night in the spoiler.(click to show/hide)
i mean to be honest whatever weekend plans we follow through with i'm pretty sure i will be satisfied with, what with the company and all
it's been thunderstorming for three days now and I LOVE IT.I knew I couldn't be the only one who loves rainstorms. :-D
IMPACTS...Oh boy...
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND TORNADOES WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS
WITH SUPERCELLS IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70
MPH ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL.
and I learned tonight there is a town in Oklahoma called Cookietown. It got hit by a tornado.
edit -- and I learned tonight there is a town in Oklahoma called Cookietown. It got hit by a tornado.A cookie-deleting tornado? Those things are dangerous!
I also found one of the largest mushrooms I've ever picked:
21°?!
IT'S FUCKING NICE
After a really rainy weekend it is now sunny and getting up to the upper 70s. At least for a few days until it rains for the weekend again.What part of the country are you in? According to my mom, mushroom season is just beginning where she lives.
Mushroom season is over. :cry:
After our lesson on cooking potatoes eventually panned out across central and eastern oklahoma last evening, today we get to the meat.
All of the weather seasonings that Oklahoma has to offer will be marinading our atmosphere during the day today, including a late season cold front and that dry rub of a dry line out west. A potent storm system will approach Oklahoma from the west this evening, and where these ingredients meet, there will likely be a grill fest of dangerous severe weather, including the possibility of flooding rains, very large hail (maybe softballs, and not the WCWS kind!), and large and violent tornadoes.
After the dry rub marinade, the atmosphere will likely pour a lot of sauce on the storms today, and localized flooding will be a problem this evening and tonight!
1 am. 20° C ~= 68 F.
Air conditioning is for weaklings
so I don't get too cold
Also fans are loud, and I can't sleep with a fucking fan on.If your fan is noisy, it is too small. You want large and slow-turning. Permanently installed ceiling fans (up to 1.8m diameter) are the gold standard, but not practical for everyone. There are large (up to 750mm diameter) pedestal fans available here, where temperatures regularly exceed 40C in summer, but I don't know what is sold in Germany.
Or you know, use fanless air ventilators... (http://www.dyson.com/fans/fansandheaters/fans.aspx)Have you ever listened to one of those Dyson things? They employ jets of high velocity air, and are far from quiet. Fanless is a very dubious claim anyway. They have internal fans to generate the air-jets; you just can't see them.
Today it is just 16 degrees here (I'm in Devon at present) - and I'm wearing shorts. Tomorrow will be cooler - and I won't!
I want to move to England. I hate summer so much.
Or you know, use fanless air ventilators... (http://www.dyson.com/fans/fansandheaters/fans.aspx)Have you ever listened to one of those Dyson things? They employ jets of high velocity air, and are far from quiet. Fanless is a very dubious claim anyway. They have internal fans to generate the air-jets; you just can't see them.
It was supposed to reach a high of 120 F in Phoenix today. (That's about 49 C for those of you elsewhere.)
That type of weather is, "Don't even BOTHER going outside".
It was supposed to reach a high of 120 F in Phoenix today. (That's about 49 C for those of you elsewhere.)
That type of weather is, "Don't even BOTHER going outside".
On July 28, 1995, Yuma reached its all-time high of 124 °F (51 °C).
I know we hit 140 on the flight line but it's not the actual temperature per say, it's the actual temp being super boosted by the massive slab of black that is the flight line. So it's very, very local to the flight line and attached hangars.
Southerner trick: hold your wrists under the faucet. After a few seconds of cold water you'll feel your face getting cooler.that only works if its not too hot outside to even HAVE cold water in the pipes....
To fallen heroes.And, in Australia, remember that the vast majority of bush firefighters are unpaid volunteers who routinely risk, and sometimes give, their lives in public service.
I want to move to England. I hate summer so much.
I will have you know we've heard about this 'summer' thing.
Last week, the Central Line on the London Underground was a balmy 34.5C.
Where are you now? Delaware yet? Baltimore for the con?
Sadly Karlsruhe (where I'll probably move to) is even warmer than my town. According to some sources it's the warmest town in Germany. Fucking yay. I think I'll need to look for an AC.
It is cold here. I am not okay with this. Why would any one live in the North?I don't like the cold either, and I have been very cold at night in the desert. Give me the steaming swamps any day.
Unapologetic Desert Rat
You're working indoors, aren't you?
Also, it's Delaware. That's 90% below the mason-dixon line.
I'm saving my sympathy for jwhouk.
You're working indoors, aren't you?
Why would any one live in the North?
I'm 100% above the 45th line of latitude north.
Why would any one live in the North?
Easy. Where I have lived for most of my life:
- I have only felt 3 earthquakes, all minor
- No active volcanoes for thousands of miles in any direction
- Only 3 tornadoes in the area, all minor
- No poisonous animals native within 100 km in any direction. None.
- I have never seen a cockroach outside a museum
- Variety of weather/seasons
- Spectacular autumns
- No population crush
- Fantastic air quality
- Amazingly long summer nights
I dunno, I promise you there is something with poison around near you.
You talk about poisonous creatures as if they were a bad thing...
I'm in Canada, I've been all over the northern half of Ontario. Mostly 47-50 degrees north, so not as far as northern Europe, although the weather is much less moderate.
Yes, the darkness is the worst. It's pretty soul crushing how short the days are in Nov/Dec/Jan.I went fishing with my dad a bunch of times near Espanola. The first time we went it was in July, and at night there was frost on the grass outside. Being 7 years old at the time I went swimming in the lake anyway.
I'm in Canada, I've been all over the northern half of Ontario. Mostly 47-50 degrees north, so not as far as northern Europe, although the weather is much less moderate.
One new benefit of the cold, shitty weather here on my new home on this coast, Eastern type is these little guys!
(http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images/graphics/pde/woolly-bear_BobCongdon.jpg)
Woolly Bears! Aka Isabella Tiger Moth Caterpillars/Fuzzy Catepillars! They're so cute!
It was super windy last night. Woke me up more than once. Which. I. Did. Not. Need. :(
I hope our Midwestern forumites are all in one piece, I was really alarmed to see on the news that people have died :(Yeah :(. We had wild weather at about the same time. The TV news led with a story about a storm blowing the roof off a shopping mall at Hornsby (northern outskirts of Sydney), trees down, flash floods etc. and I was thinking "Wow, that's bad!" Then they switched to a report on the tornadoes in Illinois, and I thought "Argh, that's worse!" Then there was more on the continuing relief efforts in the Philippines, and I thought "Count your blessings!" :cry:
It drives me insane when the announcement is "We apologise that the x.xx train to [location] is delayed due to slippery rail conditions". It's England. It's November. It is definitely going to rain.
Oh dear, don't say things like that. I'm going camping in Edale this weekend and really really don't want the trains to be delayed.
It drives me insane when the announcement is "We apologise that the x.xx train to [location] is delayed due to slippery rail conditions". It's England. It's November. It is definitely going to rain.
You're forgetting. It's autumn, so the problem is not the rain, but the wrong sort of leaves.From time to time (including during the storms last week) our public transport is disrupted by the wrong sort of waves.
Last winter the school system had a 2-hour delay due to excessive cold. No snow, but it was 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rain
Most in one minute: 38 mm (1.5 in); Barot, Guadeloupe, 26 November 1970.
The cold isn't all that notable (but it is COLD), but the high is presumably indoors, since it's higher than the world record for measured temp.Don't forget that official world records are for specific conditions: Two meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. It is perfectly possible to experience and measure higher temperatures locally.
I am so lost on farenheight temperatures.
The cold isn't all that notable (but it is COLD), but the high is presumably indoors, since it's higher than the world record for measured temp.Don't forget that official world records are for specific conditions: Two meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. It is perfectly possible to experience and measure higher temperatures locally.
...Oh, I didn't know you lived in the UP.
The roads here are never salted or plowed
because the city and the university don't have any plows or salt spreaders.
The roads here are never salted or plowedSame here in Sydney... :-D
snow and freezing rain where I am. The snow it slushy now but everything is glazed in thick ice.
The Northerners around here may get a kick out of what the city here uses to plow its roads (http://photos.normantranscript.com/EventPhotos/Snow-Day/35199677_q3qjRZ#!i=2952380899&k=J69Kv5S&lb=1&s=M).
The Northerners around here may get a kick out of what the city here uses to plow its roads (http://photos.normantranscript.com/EventPhotos/Snow-Day/35199677_q3qjRZ#!i=2952380899&k=J69Kv5S&lb=1&s=M).
What is really depressing about that is the commenters going "hahaha global warming doesn't exist and this is PROOF!".
It's proof of climate change that's for sure.
No no no, climate change is just something they invented when it became apparent that global warming is A FAKE CONSPIRACY TO STEAL OUR CARS or something.
It's proof of climate change that's for sure.
Though of course no single event is proof of anything much other than that it happened.
when our parents were young [...] the freak out du jour was human induced global cooling.
What is really depressing about that is the commenters going "hahaha global warming doesn't exist and this is PROOF!".Our Prime Minister is probably doing the same...
I flew into Baltimore yesterday and drove up to my mom's house... the weather the past few days back in Oklahoma has been in the 60s. Here it's just freaking cold (though it is supposed to warm up by the weekend). :psyduck:And now the weather has reversed. It's supposed to get into the 60s here in Maryland tomorrow, and Oklahoma is getting an ice storm. Glad I'm here and not there.
Just a few days ago, it was 17ºF and we had over a foot of snow.
Now, it's 63º and all the snow is gone. :psyduck:
254°?!
ITS FUCKING...ARE YOU OKAY?
AND SNOWING
TAKE IT OFF!
I just cycled back from central Oxford across the water meadows by the river Cherwell. The water was about 25" deep on the path for a couple of hundred yards, about 2" below the level it reached in July 2007. It seemed a lot harder work cycling through it in the dark than when it was light, for some reason.Riding through water that deep in winter is pretty hard-core! Were your wellies tall enough to keep your feet dry?
Were your wellies tall enough to keep your feet dry?
I was wearing sandals, no socks (as usual), and jeans - I rolled the jeans up to the knees, and they got only a bit damp (from splashing, not submersion). The sandals are synthetic, and dry out pretty quickly; I wear them very loose, so rubbing isn't a problem.Definitely hard-core (http://www.icebike.org/Clothing/footwear.htm) then! I ride in Keen cycling-sandals (http://www.keenfootwear.com/us/en/product/shoes/women/pedal/commuter%20iii/black!gargoyle?fromDealWall=1) most of the time myself, but plunging into frigid UK winter river-water would not be my cup of tea.
hard-core (http://www.icebike.org/Clothing/footwear.htm) then!
Consumers understand there are now a variety of other ways to get weather coverage, free of reality show clutter, and that The Weather Channel does not have an exclusive on weather coverage – the weather belongs to everyone.
Most consumers don’t want to watch a weather information channel with a forecast of a 40 percent chance of reality TV. So with that in mind, we are in the process of discussing an agreement to return the network to our line-up at the right value for our customers.
Luckily, I live on the first floor. But still...
...We've had this discussion before, have we not? :roll: :-P :-D
Garand, do me a favour. Count from -2 up to 5.
-2
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You even refer to things as 'ground zero' in the US. Having a 0th floor makes perfect sense.
Garand, do me a favour. Count from -2 up to 5.
-2
-1
0
1
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You even refer to things as 'ground zero' in the US. Having a 0th floor makes perfect sense.
Well, while you Americans are whimpering your way through the Polar Vortex, we in the Antipodes are receiving the other end of the stick - last night I checked a thermometer and it read 34 degrees Celsius (that's a good 93 degrees for all you non-metric barbarians :mrgreen:).
At 2 AM.
*whimper*
Did I hear something about 40°C temps at the Australian Open?You did. 42.2C in fact, or 108F.
Hahahaha I can see these poor bastards outside my window trying to smoke a cigarette in this weather. It's an allyway too so the wind is just destroying them. I've never been a tobacco smoker so I can't really empathize, but you couldn't PAY me to be out there right now. It is 3 above, snowing, and there's 20 MPH winds.
Are you cold? Dreading that walk to class in 6 degree (-11 with wind chill) temperatures? Then you should take a look into my new self-help program: "Don't Go To Fucking Class You Dumbass; You'll Die Of Frostbite!" The program is aimed at dissuading young, eager minds from diving into the blistering cold because university officials who lack nerve-endings told you to.
Damn, I'm so jealous.
I like Winter. It's my favourite season. I like frost, I like snow, and I love th ye clean dry air.
Sadly where I live now is one of the warmest cities of Germany. It still feels like Fall here. I really had hoped to have at least a small bit of winter. Maybe two or three weeks with frost during the day? Would have made me happier.
Instead it's just a bit more rainy than usual. At 5°C. I want -15°C!
I'm so incredibly afraid of the summer.
I really should've called off work, rather than trying to cycle in. (And it was -16 at work, too, when I got here.)
Someone called for an Iron Horse?You'll have a long wait. The next Iron Horse year begins in 2050...
WTF
GM is only one year older than me?
Apparently it is actually "freezing fog." I don't know what that means but it doesn't sound good.
It's clear how little official assistance there is here. Help cries being investigated by only person in waders - a Sky cameraman
I guess you need to rehost your images so that we can see them...
All evidence of the hour of snow we had earlier (which actually started to settle, there was a thin layer on all the cars in the street) has entirely vanished under the blaze of winter sunshine and blue skies. Go home, weather, you're drunk.
I've heard that quote lots of times applied to Oklahoma, but that quote has probably been used to describe the weather pretty much everywhere.
I really wish we wouldn't. I have like, ZERO vacation/personal time and I'd really like to be able to take a few days off for when we move and/or take an actual vacation. We just got a lovely email from the CEO that everyone is really pissed off about.
"As we all probably know, there is a storm expected Thursday. Unless things change, it looks like it will be worse upstate than downstate. I'd appreciate it if all staff make the appropriate preparations. I'd like to encourage all upstate staff to make it in. Office/admin staff try to get in to work and we'll see how it goes during the day. It has been a rough winter thus far. But it will be over in a matter of weeks. Hang in there everyone."
He will not close the office. And last week? When we were hammered with snow on Wednesday? When there was a state of emergency and everyone was ordered to stay off the roads? One person came in for 2 hours and then left. The storm before that? At peak, there were 3 of us here. Again, state of emergency.
He is putting his employees lives at risk and couldn't give less of a shit about them. I am getting more and more fed up as each day goes by.
It is apparently utterly shit outside, but I still might have to try to get in to work.
To be honest most of the reason I feel ashamed is that a lot of Britain is currently under water. We're getting hella storms and flooding (I think Paul mentioned, or linked to an article mentioning, that the flooding in Oxford is no longer due to rivers bursting but the groundwater rising above sealevel, so basically they're being flooded from two directions at once).
Getting up to 50 MPH wind gusts here. No power outages yet (fingers crossed).
Ugh weather. I got soaked to the skin cycling home - so much so that I had a shower as soon as I got in and am about to throw all my clothes in the washing machine. I nearly had to get off my bike and push at one point because I thought I was going to be blown into the canal.
It's that time of year again:Yeah, so this didn't happen at all. I'm not complaining, though.
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then a "snain" type mix,
3 days without water and 4 without power which was restored last night.
Spent Fri night (when Ita hit) with an old lady who didn't want to go to
the cyclone shelter. Hers is a small wooden house so it was an exciting night.
Cooktown was lucky. Only roof gone was one of the pubs. Loadsa big trees
fell but they all seemed to fall away from buildings. No one hurt.
Around 35°C. I'm boiling. Everything is sticky. I have a terrible headache.
AND WOULD EVERYBODY PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT HOW FUCKING GREAT THIS FUCKING WEATHER IS?
I want Winter. Real Winter. Not this wishy washy 5°C thing we had here. I want -15°C, with the hairs in your nose freezing when you breath in deeply. That is great weather. Not this outdoors sauna.
I am too warm between April and October. Anything about 18 C is too hot for me.
Yay, somebody with a similar opinion about warm weather!
I am too warm between April and October. Anything about 18 C is too hot for me.Yay, somebody with a similar opinion about warm weather!
I feel the same way as this! I function much better in colder weather.
I'll send you my gas bill, and you can contemplate it's effect on human nature...
:x :cry: :-(
The USA is apparently behind Europe in weather-forecasting science (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21642127-europeans-do-not-just-talk-about-weather-more-americans-do-they-are). This is strange considering that the USA is more prone to extreme weather, and so might be expected to pay more attention:Not strange when we consider things better left to the Discuss section. Here in the US, as it is in Australia, climate is politicized.
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It is 29C and 74% humidity here...
Seattle has been consistently in the high 20's- low 30's both summers I've spent there, so don't move there if you don't want to be hot, ankh. I love it though!(I'm assuming you're using the Celsius scale there)
*does some math* 104F or more? Does "hot" mean "People getting heatstroke" at minimum?Seattle has been consistently in the high 20's- low 30's both summers I've spent there, so don't move there if you don't want to be hot, ankh. I love it though!(I'm assuming you're using the Celsius scale there)
Low 30s are hot? Around here low 30s is a mild summer day. Hot is 40+.
Common enough in some places. It's usually children or seniors who are most likely to have physical problems, as long as they properly hydrate and stay out of direct sun (which means that farm workers are screwed during the summer harvest). The worst 25 minutes of my life was back in high school, when I was driving home when it was 45° out in California, and the car started overheating, so I had to kill the AC and turn the heat on.
*does some math* 104F or more? Does "hot" mean "People getting heatstroke" at minimum?
So, glow plugs are a different technology, for increasing combustion chamber temperatures enough to get fuel to ignite while an engine is cold.Yes, sorry I wasn't clearer. Glow-plugs in diesel engines are used to pre-heat the head of a cold engine to get it warm enough for the diesel fuel to ignite. Many modern diesels do not require them, because of improved fuel-injection technology.
You do not want a hot exposed surface designed to help fuel ignite in there, without any control of the ignition timing.
An undesigned hot spot in a combustion chamber is what causes detonation. Detonation causes engine damage.
Good news, everyone! It seems our hurricane may collide with a nor'easter.
That is to say it's good news if you're nostalgic for Sandy.
What, 4 above?
That's a heat wave around here!
We hit -14° this morning.
It was warm and sunny on Monday. It will snow on Friday. There is no logic in March.Over the weekend it was 60 here. Yesterday we got 3 inches of snow, with more forecast tomorrow and Friday. Next week it's supposed to be 60 again.
The British sometimes use the terms together for emphasis: “Stop your whingeing and whining!”
That's incredibly strange. It'd be one thing if people around the world called the storm itself different names, but to have them just have different names depending on where they are? Why?The customary regional names for the storms were generally attached when global communication was much less, and there was no international standardisation. Often the names derive from local languages in the regions where the storms occur, which were adopted by Europeans who had no name for weather-systems that don't occur in Europe. As I understand it, "hurricane" is from hurakán, meaning "God of the storm" in an indigenous language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno) of the Caribbean, and "typhoon" is from the Chinese 台风 or 颱風 (táifēng pron. "taifung") meaning "great wind". The names were also adopted before any scientific understanding existed of the common nature of these storms.
The shark and the cyclone:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39444621/deadly-shark-washes-up-after-cyclone-debbie (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39444621/deadly-shark-washes-up-after-cyclone-debbie)
She's the AT&T saleslady from their current TV ad series. Milana Vayntrub.And the new Squirrel Girl!
Stay safe out there, fellow Ontario folks. Do not melt in this mid 30s heatwave.
Right now I think I'd be okay if April's weather came back.
Temperatures are going to go up to 33 degrees C by Friday. Every patch of grass that's not permanently shaded is already dead. Less of this, please.
It's 11 pm here and 58F (14C). I love this weather.
Refrigerating eggs is a US thing. We don't do it in Europe.
What unknown horrors await next?
Errrh, yes 'we' do? (though it is not mandatory for supermarkets over here, not really necessary, and not a good idea (https://www.brigitte.de/rezepte/kochtipps/eier-in-der-kuehlschranktuer--eine-dumme-idee-10979082.html) to boot)
That article (which neglects to point out one very important fact... unrefrigerated eggs 'peel' far easier after boiling...) I opened up two of the links on the page... one of which gave me this WONDERFUL "google translated" sentence...
"Only in storage, the ghosts divorce - may the fruits now in the fridge, right?"
:)
"Nur bei der Lagerung scheiden sich die Geister - dürfen die Früchte jetzt in den Kühlschrank, oder nicht?"
The more I learn about Germany, the more I like it. It sounds clean and tidy, and filled with fun idioms-all things dear to my prairie heart.
The more I learn about Germany, the more I like it. It sounds clean and tidy, and filled with fun idioms-all things dear to my prairie heart.
If you don't mind the mandatory stick up your where-the-sun-shineth-not, it isn't half bad, sure.
My current residence's tagline is "The city that fun forgot." I doubt Germany's worse.
I dunno, I thought that Berlin was rather interesting, and had the right kind of crazy.
Snowing here now.
Winter has arrived with a bang in the south-eastern UK. For some perverse reason, it only rains, sleets or snows when I am travelling to or from work or to and from my religious meeting place.
It is Too Fucking Hot Degrees Celsius round my neck of the woods at present and I am sick of it.
I will be grateful for the hopefully inevitable thunderstorm to break the fug and the pressure, and I love rain anyway.
It is Too Fucking Hot Degrees Celsius round my neck of the woods at present and I am sick of it.
I will be grateful for the hopefully inevitable thunderstorm to break the fug and the pressure, and I love rain anyway.
And here I always thought that UK folks used Farenheit when it was hot, and Celcius when it was cold. Then again, it was 20 years ago when I lived there, so things probably have changed.
You mean that Stephen Fry has mislead me?