How Dare You!
Temperature drops are weather. Temperature increases are climate.
How Dare You!
Temperature drops are weather. Temperature increases are climate.
Man, I think I’ve seen worse wind on only two occasions.
After 20 years in Colorado I can tell you the temperature is the third most important thing in how cold it feels. Is it sunny? Is the wind blowing? Then what’s the temp? Sunny, no wind, and 25 degrees can be tee shirt weather if you’re out being active.
I always remember a day, probably around this same time of year, when my BF and I were late to a movie and so we just hung around until the next showing. It was a nice day so we were just hanging around, window shopping as we used to say.
And it just started getting colder and colder. Finally we remarked upon it, and there was a bank or something with one of those clock/thermometer signs and we realized that the temp had dropped 10 degrees in about one hour!
Luckily it was time for our movie!
“Must be all that global warming... “
no doubt about it: global warming making things colder ...
They’re doomed, doomed I tell you. They have have 8.3 years left.
Has Greta van Thornberg weighed in on this news yet?
On the first of March. In Alabama. My wife said sure, I'll believe it when I see it.
Fast forward to next morning, and the temperature dropped like a stone. It was like turning the air conditioner on. One of our dachhunds went outside to use the latrine, and she got buried. It was like watching a submarine trying to navigate and surface. All I saw was this pile of snow, slowly working it's way toward the porch, and every few steps, she'd stop and poke her eyebrows and nose out of it, trying to get her bearings. It took two towels to get her warm and dry. I told Her Eminence, well, go roll around in the yard and tell me if you believe it now. We were in that 5"+ zone in the east. Shit happens. It's called 'weather'.
I literally just flew in 2.5 hours ago. Wife wanted to break out the blizzard wear upon exiting the airport “just in case”. I am wearing a pair of blue jeans; button down long sleeve top and some crogs. Temps are registering as 26 degrees, but it feels wonderful outside. Now, would I want to stay out that way for a couple hours? No. However, its fine and manageable; hoodies and you are good to go.
/Ground is still too warm for this over-hype to have any impact. That is why it feels so nice; you might see snow everywhere and even see your breathe; the ground temp’s are punching straight through still.
I am from the east coast BTW where it is not un-common to go negative 20 or 2-3 foot of snow unexpectedly.
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!
Awesome. My sweet spot is about -40° so any temp drop is greatly appreciated. Added benefit is homeless freeze to death.
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.
It dropped 43 degrees here in Central Texas - and brought the first real rain since early July - both very welcome
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.