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Post by sigurdur on Aug 11, 2009 2:35:35 GMT
That's Nov-Mar 1999-2000. Notice the scale with the red being 9˚F above normal. It was by far our warmest such period on record here in northern Minnesota... and it was a La NiƱa winter.. which are usually colder than average. It was just a fluke winter. But still. www.crrel.usace.army.mil/ierd/tectran/IERD29.pdfNOAA temp maps are frequently way off. This one certainly is. Narragansett Bay froze nearly in toto in 1999-2000, something that doesn't happen very often anymore. Wickford Harbor froze earlier than in memory. My heating bill was, I hope, the highest that I will ever pay. I wonder what other parts of the country, besides the Northeast, the map has wrong? NOAA maps have become totally useless, and actually, I have not found an accurate map anymore. Tiz a total shame. IF the models are anything like the maps.....then the models are totally useless as well. Maybe that is the problem?
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Post by robertski on Aug 11, 2009 8:43:49 GMT
Well i saw something a bit odd here in the Uk. A Yew tree in full Berry, thsi is very unusual as they do not Berry until Mid Winter!!
We are also starting to see signs of Autumn Atlantic storms, this Weekend could be very poor if some of the Models are to be believed. A very Autumnal outlook to the forecast despite it only being early/mid August.
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Post by byz on Aug 11, 2009 19:48:23 GMT
Well had hot days on Sunday and Monday.
Woke up this morning and there was condensation on my conservatory windows, that was most unexpected.
Luckily no damage to my plants phew!
Perseids tonight and a clear sky ;D
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Post by gahooduk on Aug 13, 2009 19:01:12 GMT
My bees think it is autumn..cut back on producing brood and started filling up old brood cells with honey...two or three weeks early, normal preperation for forming a winter cluster
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 19, 2009 13:48:16 GMT
Today, Aug 19th is my fathers b/d. Two more days and it will be my wifes b/d. I am a farmer, usually wrapping up wheat harvest about now. Have not started yet, and it is two weeks away at best. But is happening today, rain, is something that seems to come virtually every year around my fathers and wifes b/d. A date to kinda put my hat on and remember the weather.
So, cycles are still evident, even with the cold temps in my area. This time always starts the shift to fall as the days cool more rapidly and the nights are great for sleeping.
Does anyone else have certain dates that just stick with you in regards to climate?
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Post by stranger on Aug 19, 2009 20:07:21 GMT
Do I have any climate significant dates? November 11, 1940. Those who live on the upper plains should have at least heard of the Armistice Day Blizzard. Many storms before and since have dropped more snow, had higher winds, greater temperature drops, and so on. But that one is #2 on Minnesota's all time weather events.
It was not so much the severity but the complete lack of either warning or preparation on the part of most of those who died. Bluebird weather turned into disaster in minutes where we were.
Remember, the guaranteed way to fail to survive an unexpected event like that blizzard is to fail to prepare.
Stranger
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 19, 2009 20:18:19 GMT
Do I have any climate significant dates? November 11, 1940. Those who live on the upper plains should have at least heard of the Armistice Day Blizzard. Many storms before and since have dropped more snow, had higher winds, greater temperature drops, and so on. But that one is #2 on Minnesota's all time weather events. It was not so much the severity but the complete lack of either warning or preparation on the part of most of those who died. Bluebird weather turned into disaster in minutes where we were. Remember, the guaranteed way to fail to survive an unexpected event like that blizzard is to fail to prepare. Stranger My grandmother talked about that blizzard. Absolutely no warning at all. Sunny skies, warm temps, etc. Where I live, just below an escarpment, which stranger would recognize, the escarpment cuts off the view to the west to a point. My grandma said it was like a wall when it hit. The temp dropped so fast, and the snow was so hard and the winds were terrible. All in just a few mins.
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Post by stranger on Aug 23, 2009 2:32:04 GMT
Autumn has a feel and smell all its own. I have noticed the change for around three weeks, about six weeks early for this latitude. This morning the thermometer said 62, ten degrees below normal, and the high today was 85 - also ten below normal.
I cut some big weeds that usually ooze sap. They were dry so the sap is on the way down. The wasps are desperately protecting possible food sources. All the signs here, roughly 89N 32W, are for an early winter.
I suspect Sigurdur is probably in the low 50's to mid 70's by now. Pleasant enough - if you do not have a crop to worry about.
Stranger
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Post by woodstove on Aug 23, 2009 8:53:51 GMT
89N?
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Post by stranger on Aug 23, 2009 22:00:52 GMT
Sorry, Woodstove, I turned the GPS on and the brain off. That's called entirely too much trust in technology. The sort that leads people to drive into rivers thinking the bridge the GPS says is there is really there.
Dead tree technology says 89W 33N, approximately.
Now the GPS says that it is 1:05 somewhere - at 16:57 local, and the GPS says 87W 29N. Which means I am adrift in the Gulf somewhere south of Mobile. That's peculiar.
Stranger
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Post by woodstove on Aug 25, 2009 13:13:50 GMT
In Austin, we remain in the 100-degree-plus zone.
Lengthening shadows are one of our few signs of approaching autumn. They are a great help to me, as a rower, on Lady Bird Lake. My teammates and I can row beside a cliff out of the Sun much earlier in the evening than a month ago.
My 100-gallon rain barrels filled during a 10-minute deluge yesterday. Although Central Texas is in a serious drought, rain does fall from time to time, however briefly.
When I lived through the California drought of 1976 to 1978, we would go 7 or 8 months at a time without a single drop. We also took "navy showers": water on for 15 seconds, soap up, water on for 30 seconds, and that was it; used vegetable-based dish detergent to hand-wash our dishes, and then used the same water again in our vegetable garden when we were through; restaurants stopped putting water on tables, unless a specific request was made. Such measures may be needed here, too, although at this point in time water restrictions are nowhere near strict enough to require such practices.
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Post by van on Aug 25, 2009 14:09:03 GMT
Here in Oscoda, Mi. I've seen a lot of mushrooms popping up about a month or 6 weeks early. But then again we only had spring time temps until first week of August.
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Post by slh1234 on Aug 25, 2009 16:01:34 GMT
In Austin, we remain in the 100-degree-plus zone. Lengthening shadows are one of our few signs of approaching autumn. They are a great help to me, as a rower, on Lady Bird Lake. My teammates and I can row beside a cliff out of the Sun much earlier in the evening than a month ago. My 100-gallon rain barrels filled during a 10-minute deluge yesterday. Although Central Texas is in a serious drought, rain does fall from time to time, however briefly. When I lived through the California drought of 1976 to 1978, we would go 7 or 8 months at a time without a single drop. We also took "navy showers": water on for 15 seconds, soap up, water on for 30 seconds, and that was it; used vegetable-based dish detergent to hand-wash our dishes, and then used the same water again in our vegetable garden when we were through; restaurants stopped putting water on tables, unless a specific request was made. Such measures may be needed here, too, although at this point in time water restrictions are nowhere near strict enough to require such practices. We're in a pretty serious drought again. I, for one, am cheering for an El Nino this fall strong enough to rain us out of the drought.
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Post by Belushi TD on Aug 25, 2009 20:11:05 GMT
Fireweed about 1/2 the normal height and blooming, as of august 5th at Red Dog mine.
A bit early for the bloom, from what the locals were telling me.
Belushi TD
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Post by Ratty on Aug 26, 2009 1:36:26 GMT
Here is Northern Australia it is late Winter and we have just had a spell of extremely hot weather (Brisbane > 35 C). Records broken.
Meanwhile in Southern parts of the continent, it seems that average Winter conditions prevail.
Kiwi might have a comment or two ...
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