OT: What's your weather like now? (not about AGW)

Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:37 pm   

Tim Watts Inscribed thus:


days. I'd probably be around 7 or 8 years old. I don't remember
getting off school either, unless the boiler froze. That happened twice
in the same winter.


--
Best Regards:
Baron.

Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:50 pm   

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:54:02 +0530, "pimpom" <pimpom_at_invalid.invalid>
wrote:


53F in San Francisco, 27 in Truckee. It's been a little cooler than
normal maybe, and a bit wetter. We left Truckee yesterday around noon
to come back to Da City, and it started snowing as we drove. They
instituted chain controls that evening and kept them on all night,
maybe a bit unusual for March.

"Chain controls" means they stop traffic and only let you through if
you have tire chains or 4WD+snow tires.

Looks OK now.

http://www.magnifeye.com/

John

Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:29 am   

"pimpom" <pimpom_at_invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:hn63o3$ulj$1_at_news.albasani.net...

The local forecast calls for Dark and more dark tonight. With light
appearing in the morning and lasting all day.

Cheers

Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:33 am   

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:43:27 -0800, Tim Wescott
<tim_at_seemywebsite.now> wrote:


Yes, Sam Barlow is where kids attended. And yes, not
Damascus Union.


:)


They are having such troubles, you know? There's an election
going on today, in fact. Quite a controversy there!!

Jon

Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:59 am   

Jon Kirwan wrote:

I knew about the troubles -- dad was Dee Wescott, and my older brother
still lives in the city.

Didn't know about the election -- happily I suppose. Nothing pisses me
off more than the folks who think that the way to achieve small
government is to throw rocks in the gears, then stand back and jeer when
the machine grinds to a halt.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:11 am   

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:54:02 +0530, "pimpom" <pimpom_at_invalid.invalid>
wrote:


They are beginning to approach seasonable warmths. Winter was harsh
and cold however.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:34 am   

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:54:02 +0530, "pimpom" <pimpom_at_invalid.invalid>
wrote:


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Austin Texas:

Last week it snowed and was cold (30-40F) for a day or so, today it was
sunny and about 74F.

JF

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:44 am   

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:27 -0800, Tim Wescott
<tim_at_seemywebsite.now> wrote:


Hmm. For not knowing about the election today, you seem to
have a good handle on what is at issue!!!

Jon

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:49 am   

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:51:21 +0000 (UTC), don_at_manx.misty.com
(Don Klipstein) wrote:

When the north polar area gets 'notably warm' it is worth
considering that heat was exchanged and might lead to things
being on the "cool side" somewhere else.

Jon

Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:51 am   

In article <hn63o3$ulj$1_at_news.albasani.net>, pimpom wrote:

Philadelphia PA USA has had December, January and February colder than
average, but not exceptionally cold. Maybe once per decade or two degree
of cold.

The chillyness was also unusually steady, with lack of temperatures
dipping into the single digits F. My experience is that a majority of
winters in Philadelphia have at least one night dipping below 10 degrees
F.

March 2010 so far in Philadelphia has had temperature slightly warmer
than normal and unusually steady. The historic greatly-record-breaking
snowfall has melted away except in snowbanks in parking lots and the like.

I have heard from friends in Canada that the stretch from Toronto to
Sudbury, Ontario has had the past few days very notably mild, with
temperatures achieving 50 F / 10 C, and that snowfall ran below normal in
that stretch. Toronto, Orangeville and Sudbury currently have ground at
least largely free of snow, although some areas between Orangeville and
Sudbury had snow cover a couple days ago.

The UAH and RSS indices of lower troposphere temperature have had the 48
contiguous states of the USA on the cool side the past 3 months, and
exceptionally anomously cold in December and February. UAH v. 5.3 lower
troposphere index for the 48 states this February was the 10th most
anomalously cold month since the beginning of this index in December 1978,
and most anomalously cold since December 2000. December 2009 according to
this index is tied for 12 place most anomalously cold month for the 48
states.

The north polar region ran very notably warm the past 3 months,
especially in December 2009 and February 2010. The north polar region
(land and ocean combined) had February 2010 being its most anomalously
warm month on record, starting with December 1978. December 2009 came in
4th most anomalously warm for the north polar region.

This index has February 2010 being the 5th most anomalously warm month
for the world, with 4th place being January 2010 and the top 3 months
being February, April and May 1998 (record greatest El Nino). December
2009, on the other hand, had global lower troposphere temperature hardly
at all more anomously warm than average of the past decade.

(If I correctly read http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt)

The recent extremes appear to me to have been caused in large part by an
El Nino, combined with Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation being high,
combined with weather patterns that are disproportionately common in
winter during a solar minimum, especially a "Hale minimum" (every other
one). Notably, the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation
indices achieved notably extremely low values over the past 3 months. The
Arctic Oscillation index had December 2009 being its lowest month since
the start date of that index in 1950 IIRC.
I give fair chance that some random or not-yet-known factor also
contributed to the ways this past winter went wacko, due in part to
Philadelphia receiving 5 times as much snow as Toronto did in addition to
being Philadelphia's snowiest winter since 1884 by a substantial margin.

Don Klipstein (don_at_misty.com)

Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:04 am   

In <b05dp5lbijut58equ8rfg5b3pahd9dd8i8_at_4ax.com>, Jim Thompson wrote:

They're calling for rain rather than snow in Philadelphia, NYC, Boston,
Toronto, Chicago, and even Minneapolis. They're calling for mostly snow
in Denver, but snow into April is common in Denver.

Did not this storm produce snow in Flagstaff? This time of year, even
in early April, it snows more than rains in Flagstaff. (weather.com says
Flagstaff is getting snow showers and will get more.)

- Don Klipstein (don_at_misty.com)

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:38 am   

On Mar 9, 10:24 am, "pimpom" <pim...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

An unusual year in San Diego - a lot of rain, but not enough all at
once to flood much, and no killer frosts all winter. The guava trees
usually die back a bit over the winter, but this year they haven't
lost a leaf.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:52 am   

In article <mdudp59k1qcs57d1piq47e0rs4iqrjfjq1_at_4ax.com>, Jon Kirwan wrote:

(I would like to get back in February 2010 being 10th coldest month for
the 48 contiguous USA states on record for this temperature index since it
started with December 1978, and December 2009 tied for 12th most
anomalously cold according to v. 5.3 UAH TLT.)


It does appear to me that this occurred to a very notable extent, due
heavily to the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation running
extremely low in those recent months.

- Don Klipstein (don_at_misty.com)

Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:00 am   

"Ban" <bansuri_at_web.de> wrote in message
news:hn675o$4m7$1_at_news.eternal-september.org...


Australia:

West coast, pretty sure we broke all records for the longest run of days
without any rain over summer. Average temps way up as well.

East cost, there are floods aplenty with "100 year floods" over quite a few
areas. This is pretty weird for late summer. Good for replenishing aquifers
though.

Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:11 am   

John Larkin wrote:

Still like that in March? What was it like in January?