The Weather Thread

[Rommie]

IT FRIGGIN' SNOWED HERE YESTERDAY. Like, big fluffy flakes out of the sky, for several minutes.

I am probably the first person to move to Boston in history to feel excited that the weather will be better.

[Thumper]

That's funny.
It's warming up here but wet and rainy alot. We're out of town all next week. I'd like to mow Thu or Fri so it won't be a disaster when I get back. But supposed to start raining Wed late through Sat. So I may have to mow in the rain and just make a complete scrapping mess, or just say F' it and try to attack it when I get back.

[Thumper]

Fooooooog.

[Rommie]

Here too! Couldn't see any of the buildings around us.

[geonuc]

Central Oregon has been spectacular lately. Lots of hiking adventures.

[Thumper]

I don't know if this is weather or what's up (not that it matters). It was just starting to get light out as I was heading up the driveway. The sky in the ENE was getting bright and pink. Every minute is seemed to change. There were high level clouds that reflected the light turning pinks, maroons, and purples, stretching almost to the Western horizon eventually. Then by the time I got to work, it was pretty much gone. As the sun rose, it hid completely behind thicker clouds. You had to be there at the moment.

[geonuc]

You should probably cut back on smoking crack.

[SciFiFisher]

You should probably cut back on smoking crack.

[Thumper]

Double rainbow! What does it mean!? Man.

[SciFiFisher]

Double rainbow! What does it mean!? Man.

The universe is trying to communicate...man.

[Sigma_Orionis]

[Thumper]

So looks like there's a significant chance of rain everyday until, oh Labor Day. I think there have been single days (at least daylight hours) that were rain free. But I'm averaging about a half inch of rain a day.
Currently, I'm trying to refill a small pond with rainwater, so I guess I don't mind...

[pumpkinpi]

We've had quite a dry spell. It's been beautiful weather for walking/biking to work. Crisp in the morning, not too hot on the way home. I wish summer days were always like this. But I know the heat is coming!

[Thumper]

Columbus is about 6.5 inches over normal for precipitation this year. We've gotten over 3 inches in the last week.

[SciFiFisher]

We are starting to peg over 100 degree days. And it appears that officially our short stint of Winter 2.0 is over. We probably won't see rain now until September or October.

[Thumper]

Depending on your zip code, we got somewhere near 3 inches of rain last night. The Kid and I were in north Columbus at an indoor climbing facility last night. The manager gets on the PA and says, "Most of you are aware of the torrential monsoon going on outside. You should also know that the access road in and out of this facility is blocked by two to three feet of water. When you leave tonight, please be very careful.

By the time we left, it was only about a foot deep. However, the freeway ramp was closed where we wanted to get on, so we had to take a much longer home. I found out the interstate was shut down in two places due to high water. Rain expected in the forecast 12 of the next 14 days...

[SciFiFisher]

I occasionally listen to the rural channel on XM satellite radio. This morning they were talking about how there are drought conditions in the SE (Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama) and the West (New Mexico and California) and too much rain in the Midwest and up around the Dakotas. There was a news piece about how the rains and the flooding all feeding into the Mississippi river are pouring so much fresh water into the ocean off the shores of Louisiana that it is destroying the shrimp and crab harvests for about 100 miles or more offshore. There are definite weird things going on.

[Thumper]

Fresh water and fertilizers and herbicides...

[Thumper]

I think we got like 2 inches in 15 minutes last night. I've been at this place 20 years and I saw rivers and ponding in places I've never seen it. I saw water shooting out the end of an overwhelmed gutter like a fire hose. There is just no place for the water to go. We are full. I don't know exactly how much came down because I didn't have my life jacket handy to wade down to the rain gauge.

[Thumper]

Hazy, hot, and humid pretty much for the last 2 weeks. Still averaging almost half inch of rain a day. But it's been raining only about every 3 days. Today will be one of those days. So almost been able to keep up with the mowing. Just not everything else. Mower needs seriously cleaned up and a blade change.

[SciFiFisher]

You need goats.

[Thumper]

We've had legitimate conversations about that. But we'd have to fit them with life vests this season...

[Rommie]

I occasionally listen to the rural channel on XM satellite radio. This morning they were talking about how there are drought conditions in the SE (Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama) and the West (New Mexico and California) and too much rain in the Midwest and up around the Dakotas. There was a news piece about how the rains and the flooding all feeding into the Mississippi river are pouring so much fresh water into the ocean off the shores of Louisiana that it is destroying the shrimp and crab harvests for about 100 miles or more offshore. There are definite weird things going on.

But global warming is a hoax!!!

It amazes me how people can live the last few years on Earth and not think weird shit is going on. Even crazier IMO is we are now just going to have to live with at minimum this level of crazy shit for the rest of our lives, and the question is whether we can stop even crazier shit of epic proportions happening.

[geonuc]

We've had legitimate conversations about that. But we'd have to fit them with life vests this season...

[Thumper]

Hazy, hot, and humid. Repeat.