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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 3, 2024 18:30:17 GMT -5
We've got several severe storms moving through the region this afternoon. Heavy winds and rain, potential hail and tornado watch through the rest of the day. Several businesses are closing early or limiting hours because of it. My dentist closed his office at noon and a couple of comic/game stores have cancelled Magic events they had scheduled tonight and are closing early. I was out running errands a half hour ago and it was bright and sunny. I just heard thunder and looked out and it's pitch black out there (and the eclipse is not until next Monday). And now I can hear the rain pounding down. -M Cimmerian weather, by Crom! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 3, 2024 20:41:22 GMT -5
It was 68 and sunny today. It’s supposed to snow Saturday morning. And then be 68 again by next Friday. Spring in Idaho.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 4, 2024 5:45:29 GMT -5
Looking very Christmas-y this morning. We got 20 cm of snow during the night, with more to come today.
*Sigh*. And my younger son had just removed his winter tires, too.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 4, 2024 6:39:59 GMT -5
Looking very Christmas-y this morning. We got 20 cm of snow during the night, with more to come today. *Sigh*. And my younger son had just removed his winter tires, too. Ugh. Sorry. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 24, 2024 21:06:56 GMT -5
It almost reached 93 degrees here today.
According to the forecasts, we probably won't get to 80 degrees again until May.
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Post by 80sChild on Sept 25, 2024 8:27:25 GMT -5
Here in Charlotte, North Carolina it is currently (9:26am) cloudy at 73 degrees. It's also a bit humid due to last night's rain, and is supposed to reach a high of 85 later. Personally my ideal temperature is around 60-65 degrees.
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Post by DubipR on Sept 25, 2024 8:36:51 GMT -5
Currently its about 61, but overall its going to be 70. Nice to have cool fall weather here in the Southland
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Post by Confessor on Sept 26, 2024 13:03:09 GMT -5
There's a nasty looking hurricane called Helene brewing off the gulf coast today which will make landfall in Georgia and Florida this evening. The forecast I saw on the BBC News this morning predicted it would travel up the Alabama/Georgia border and as far as Tennessee before disapating. Be careful ya'll, if you're in that area.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 27, 2024 17:00:50 GMT -5
Heavy gusting wind (60-70 mph gusts) and driving rain on the front edge of the weather system that Helene is part of. Already had to go out in it to track down our trash barrels that had gone on walkabout and dealing with a little of water coming in the basement on the wall that the wind is driving the rain against.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2024 17:14:31 GMT -5
Heavy gusting wind (60-70 mph gusts) and driving rain on the front edge of the weather system that Helene is part of. Already had to go out in it to track down our trash barrels that had gone on walkabout and dealing with a little of water coming in the basement on the wall that the wind is driving the rain against. -M I was literally just about to post asking how you were holding up. It's been a nasty afternoon for us (MRP and I live somewhat close in Ohio, I'm a little more east), but our gusts were more around 45 mph or so. The winds are still pushing hard but I "think" they are starting to back down a touch (hoping not to jinx myself with that). Lost power for a few seconds and lights flickering a bit, but no major outage (hopefully will stay that way, plenty of people out on the utility map near us). I don't tend to have a lot of flooding issues since I'm elevated a bit, but we have a lot of trees so always a concern with an event like this (so far so good with that as well). Hope no major issues for you (and anyone else impacted as it pushes through). Definitely feel for folks in the southeast who have been getting the catastrophic impacts. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 27, 2024 17:23:04 GMT -5
Yeah, this ain't a patch against what folks in the southeast are dealing with, but it is in no way, shape, or form good. Our tree in the front yard is a concern. We've tried to get it taken down but have been ghosted by three different tree companies because we didn't want to take them up on their "cash discount" offer (i.e. they charge a bit less if you pay in cash and they don't have to report the income and pay taxes on it). We actually prefer the paper trail of paying with a card and then just paying the balance when we get the bill so we can also take the deduction for home improvements if we qualify and spend enough on it. So we're keeping fingers crossed the wind spares that tree.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 2, 2024 12:44:52 GMT -5
It almost reached 93 degrees here today. According to the forecasts, we probably won't get to 80 degrees again until May. Well, I was almost right. After that high of 92.8 on the 24th, it only got up to 76.5 the rest of September. But yesterday, Oct. 1, we had 81.3 degrees. Let's see if that was the last one until May. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 2, 2024 13:40:38 GMT -5
Well, I was almost right. After that high of 92.8 on the 24th, it only got up to 76.5 the rest of September. But yesterday, Oct. 1, we had 81.3 degrees. Let's see if that was the last one until May. As someone who grew up in the Willamette Valley about 30 miles south of Portland in the 1970s and 1980s, I can't tell you endlessly weird it is getting this kind of news from people living in the area now (my sister, just south of Salem, updates me pretty regularly). Over 80 degrees at the start of October would have been completely unthinkable back then - the most we could have hoped for was an Indian Summer with little or no rain and temps in the low 70s. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 2, 2024 18:39:36 GMT -5
Well, I was almost right. After that high of 92.8 on the 24th, it only got up to 76.5 the rest of September. But yesterday, Oct. 1, we had 81.3 degrees. Let's see if that was the last one until May. As someone who grew up in the Willamette Valley about 30 miles south of Portland in the 1970s and 1980s, I can't tell you endlessly weird it is getting this kind of news from people living in the area now (my sister, just south of Salem, updates me pretty regularly). Over 80 degrees at the start of October would have been completely unthinkable back then - the most we could have hoped for was an Indian Summer with little or no rain and temps in the low 70s. I've been here since 1994, and this seems a bit unusual to me. Zagreb is at almost the same latitude as Portland; is the climate similar? |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2024 1:44:20 GMT -5
(...) Zagreb is at almost the same latitude as Portland; is the climate similar? Not really; traditionally (meaning, even before the weather started going haywire all over the world) summers here are much hotter than those I recall in Oregon, i.e., the sweltering season begins in May and pretty much doesn't let up until early September. And the humidity here is off the charts compared to the West Coast - I don't think I'll ever get used to it. Also traditionally, the winters here (and throughout the Balkans) are much more harsh, with heavy snowfall and lingering below freezing temps. That said, in the past decade or so, winters, with a few exceptions, have been relatively mild, kind of like the winters I recall in Oregon, i.e., cold and miserable to be sure, but not much snowfall and only occasional periods of extreme cold (when some front rolls in from northern Europe or Siberia). |
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