Posted on 10/10/2019 7:02:52 PM PDT by Innovative
I have explained that to a lot of people, and no one understands it.
Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Is Coming To Denver On Friday
October 9, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Bwahhaha!
Weather like this only happens when we get really strong cold air from Canada.
Very unusual at this time of year.
Except for summer, most of our weather comes in from the Pacific or the Gulf of Alaska. We get full blast Canadian cold fronts only a couple times each year - almost always in winter and spring.
I know most of the USA has had really uncomfortable warm weather for most of the year.
In Seattle, we have had normal to below normal temps almost the whole year - February 2019 had the lowest average temp ever recorded.
Doubly strange - we have another warm water “blob” off the Washington coast.
Last time we got that was during the last El Nino, and we had above average temps for months.
This time - colder than average temps for months!
this is really the amazing thing about living in the high elevation west.....you get the wonderful extremes....I love it....
Awesome. My sweet spot is about -40° so any temp drop is greatly appreciated. Added benefit is homeless freeze to death.
I live in CO and I don’t even own a jacket. Anything above 0° is too hot for me.
Agreed, no big whoop D. I have had 60/25 recently. That is the way things go up here in the mountains.
And who says the Lord doesn’t have a sense of humor? With all the nonsense about global warming and now, we appear to have simply bypassed fall and are heading straight into winter.
LOL! That certainly puts it in perspective!
Sure was windy and now quite chilly this morning here in Vegas.
It dropped 43 degrees here in Central Texas - and brought the first real rain since early July - both very welcome
No....the latest update is Climate Disruption. I got the memo.
Probably the longest sustained wind I’ve experienced, I’m in the far NW of Vegas, positioned between the mountain ranges. Feels like it’s freezing this morning (it isn’t), was almost 90 36 hours ago.
They used to say Cheyenne only had two seasons. Winter and Cheyenne Frontier Days, a week in August, that was celebrated with big rodeo events.
In July of the year we lived there, my brother and I were playing outside the house in jeans and t-shirts. Within 30 minutes, the wind starting howling and the temperature dropped 45 degrees in a half hour. So low that we had to change into winter parkas, stocking caps and gloves. Mom had to turn the furnace on in the house. It was freezing....in the middle of July.
We also had a blizzard and 13" of snow and ice on Mother's Day in May. The wind blew constantly, coming down off the Rockies and could reach 40-60 miles an hour with regularity.
People in that part of the country are used to this kind of fast-changing weather but my dad retired from the military right after being stationed there and we moved to Tempe, Arizona to live. No more freezing cold for us.
‘Chinook wind’.
They can happen all the way to western Minnesota and almost to Iowa. Not too unusual.
Rapid temp drops are common in Colorado and we see them every Fall season...We get a drop of 40-50-60 degrees following a sunny balmy day as a cold front from the NW sweeps down off the Front Range...Sometimes the fronts come from the NE, and we call those “upslopes”...
Those who are natives or lived here awhile expect these fronts, and we get them most years...If you pay attention to the rapid changes our altitude and topography bring, you can even see ‘em coming...
I remember a sunny warm September day back in the early 80s (last century for you kids out there) that was followed by an overnight big temp drop and a blizzard that dumped more than a foot of snow for Denver...If we had local media who were born here, they might not be making such a big deal out of a regular seasonal occurrence...
Today you’re picking the last tomato, tomorrow gassing the snow blower...That’s Colorado...
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