Weather

[Renzatic]

I lived!

Going by what I'm seeing today, last night's storms were mostly potential that, fortunately, didn't live up to the hype.

 

[fooferdoggie]

we had really cold night and mornings and a little thaw middle of the day the last several day. we go to bed at 26 and wake up at 36 and maybe rain.

 

[Renzatic]

we had really cold night and mornings and a little thaw middle of the day the last several day. we go to bed at 26 and wake up at 36 and maybe rain.

It's going to be 70 today for me, with a lows in the high 50's.

Gotta enjoy it while it lasts, since the cold returns this Sunday.

 

[fooferdoggie]

It's going to be 70 today for me, with a lows in the high 50's.

Gotta enjoy it while it lasts, since the cold returns this Sunday.

this is the first day I can ride since Friday. it was 28 yesterday morning with some thawing so I got my bike out and was walking to the Train station where I realized I forgot my helmet and Sid screw it and took it home. it rose before I left work and was thinking it was good I didn't to bring my bike but the roads were dry.

 

[lizkat]

Feature of the day in the Catskills is very dense fog. The ground isn't even frozen yet, neither are the creeks and it's 41ºF. Weird.

 

[Herdfan]

Wasn't supposed to rain today, and technically it probably isn't. But there is just a mist in the air that will eventually get you wet.

 

[fooferdoggie]

well I rode to work 35 degrees rain and big snow flakes. lucky no wind.

 

[shadow puppet]

SoCal has had almost 24 hours straight rain. Yesterday, just before 4P, a near-by transformer blew. We were without power for several hours. Thank Yahvo for my trusty ancient 1947 gas furnace to keep me & the Labrador kid toasty & warm.

 

[Alli]

I’m looking forward to Sunday. Supposed to be cold so I can put on a sweatshirt!

 

[lizkat]

What strikes me as alarming here is a whole new pattern for recent Decembers. Not only are we getting record high temperatures for dates during December way more often, but on those same dates we are also getting very high LOWs, like way into the above-normal range.

Today it was 47ºF, a high that's 30-50º higher than a typical New Year's Eve, and the low forecast is 39ºF. A typical low in late December is more like 0-15ºF. I'm not complaining but "it ain't right"...

Clouds are not clearing off before nightfall as before, so the cloud cover now tends to insulate against heat loss overnight. Snowfall, the little that has occurred here this December, has melted instead of helping to mulch local perennial plantings. Gonna have to get out there and add some more straw mulch if it ever quits raining.

 

[Renzatic]

Tonight, round 2 begins. We'll start off with heavy thunderstorms and the possibility of tornadoes, and end it with a wintry mix of sleet and snow.

This is apocalypse weather.

 

[Roller]

Tonight, round 2 begins. We'll start off with heavy thunderstorms and the possibility of tornadoes, and end it with a wintry mix of sleet and snow.

This is apocalypse weather.

Same here, minus the sleet and snow. It's been in the high 70s today.

 

[Renzatic]

Same here, minus the sleet and snow. It's been in the high 70s today.

Ditto. The wind's blowing pretty heavily over here, and the clouds are tracking quickly through the sky. Reminds me a lot of how things were the day the 2011 tornadoes hit.

Though I was wrong about one thing: the wintry mix doesn't hit until tomorrow evening.

 

[Renzatic]

Tornado watch is in effect! Wooo!

 

[lizkat]

Tornado watch is in effect! Wooo!

So are you guys ok there now in tornado territory??

 

[Renzatic]

So are you guys ok there now in tornado territory??

I'm fine. The worst of it seemed to pass just north of me, by a scant mile in one instance. The most I got here was some heavy bouts of wind and rain.

 

[Huntn]

It s supposed to freeze here (Houston) tonight temp has been falling currently at 36F, will increase today, and drop tonight to about 30 for several hours. I have to move some plants in the house today and cover my little Lemmon Tree, which actually has new lemmons on it. I’m surprised this cold front brought no rain, that is unusual.

 

[lizkat]

Enjoying the last of an abnormally warm year-end/year-start... we're going from the 50ºF highs the past couple days to strictly normal January around here. Overnight low will be 10ºF by Tuesday. Last night it was 41º but today it's sinking fast towards freezing, forecast to be 17º tonight. Now where the heck did i put my parka?

 

[Alli]

I just don’t understand weather at all. Earlier in the week there were predictions of weather in the (high) 30’s for today, yet when I woke up it was 75 degrees. I really want to put on a sweatshirt.

 

[lizkat]

I just don’t understand weather at all. Earlier in the week there were predictions of weather in the (high) 30’s for today, yet when I woke up it was 75 degrees. I really want to put on a sweatshirt.

Heh, here I'm definitely gonna have to layer up for the incoming chill...

Forecasts are sometimes much more on the money than they used to be in the very very short term --hence apps that can reliably suggest "if you wait 15 minutes you won't have to wear a rainjacket to the mailbox"-- but the downside is that the week-ahead look also changes by the hour..