Author Topic: Let's talk about the weather! (Read 9100 times)

shs96 · « **Reply #70 on:** January 10, 2012, 02:04:16 AM »

I suspect my snowplow guy is enjoying the pre-paid seasonal rate and not having to do anything!

tedders55 · « **Reply #71 on:** January 10, 2012, 03:33:55 AM »

Quote from: KJP on January 10, 2012, 01:10:19 AM

Unlike 2011, this winter is warming many hearts
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:36 AM Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:40 AM
By Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- This is a winter we hope sticks around.

A year ago at this time, we were already growing sick of the snow and cold.

Our first snowfall arrived Dec. 1, and by this time last year, we had already had 20 inches of snow.

So far this year, we've had half that much. And it's all gone.

Kids and dogs are tracking mud, not snow, into the house.

READ MORE AT:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/01/mild_winter_in_northeast_ohio.html

Not mine

We are having to jump through hoops and pray to snow gods in order to keep our Ski Race Season going. Additionally there are a few ski resorts in the area (Peek n' Peak, and I think Boston Mills is always questionable year to year) that have been having financial trouble in the past few years. These warm temps with no natural snow is going to make surviving a serious concern.

KJP · « **Reply #72 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:17:47 AM »

Just checking the seasonal snowfall thus far in the 2011-12 season for Cleveland (go to http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=cle) and I'm shocked to see we have had 37.5 inches of snow. Really? When?!?! I see it's come in dribs and drabs, with no one-day snowfall greater than 5 inches. I'm also surprised to see January was pretty close to a normal snowfall (18.1 inches actual, 18.7 inches normal). I was expecting our snowfall total thus far to be in the mid-20s, not high-30s. But check out the daily temperatures in the Preliminary Monthly Climate Data for each month this winter. Most daily averages were above normal.

By the way, I heard my first lawnmower in Cleveland this year on March 11. It has to be the earliest I've ever heard it in my 44 years -- all in Northeast Ohio.

ColDayMan · « **Reply #73 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:24:38 AM »

It is in the 80's here and good lord, this is MARCH! MARCHMADNESSINDEED!!!

Mov2Ohio · « **Reply #74 on:** March 19, 2012, 01:15:41 PM »

Loving the weather this Winter! The best Winter Ever!

E Rocc · « **Reply #75 on:** March 20, 2012, 04:12:04 PM »

To paraphrase a particularly obnoxious quote heard during too many evil winters: If you do like s***, move to Alaska!

KJP · « **Reply #76 on:** March 20, 2012, 05:15:55 PM »

It's official!! Except they stole my description "The Winter That Wasn't"....

In Cleveland, 'the winter that wasn't' was the hottest in 140 years of NWS weather records
Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 6:00 PM Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 10:17 PM
By Michael Scott, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The winter that wasn't will go down as the warmest on record.

Looking back over a wimpy winter season, we can say that no one has ever experienced a warm winter like 2011-12 in Northeast Ohio.

The average high temperature this winter was 44.5 degrees, displacing the winter of 1982-83 (43.9) and nearly eight degrees higher than average, according a Plain Dealer analysis of 141 years of temperature data kept by the National Weather Service.

READ MORE AT:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/03/in_cleveland_the_winter_that_w.html

KJP · « **Reply #77 on:** March 20, 2012, 05:33:21 PM »

BTW, the Agriculture Climate Zones have shifted north by one zone, so what used be the zone for Columbus has shifted north to Cleveland making it more difficult to produce some things like maple syrup....

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=check-your-seed-packets

CBC · « **Reply #78 on:** March 20, 2012, 10:58:30 PM »

I was cool with this weather until I realized I couldn't see my dog because the grass in the backyard was so high. I mean it's March, I don't wanna mow...

TBideon · « **Reply #79 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:36:34 AM »

People were sunbathing at North and Oak beach on Sunday, including me and some of my then out of town guests. I think it was 83 degrees in Chicago that weekend. It felt like 90.

mrnyc · « **Reply #80 on:** March 21, 2012, 01:49:36 AM »

roker said it was 85 in chicago yesterday - crazy!

it wasnt nearly that warm here, but still i had a short sleve polo shirt on and sat outside and had a late lunch at pj clarkes in battery park city. btw some young girls sat next to us and i overheard them making arrangements to visit the rock hall and the football hof, where to stay and hangout downtown because so and so had a good time, etc. so that was nice to hear!

musky · « **Reply #81 on:** March 21, 2012, 03:14:03 AM »

Quote from: KJP on March 20, 2012, 05:33:21 PM

BTW, the Agriculture Climate Zones have shifted north by one zone, so what used be the zone for Columbus has shifted north to Cleveland making it more difficult to produce some things like maple syrup....

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=check-your-seed-packets

Not sure if it is only me, but I cannot get on the Scientificamerican.com website at all. Here is the Google cache version of the article:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wj6HHj0SIf0J:www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm%3Fid%3Dcheck-your-seed-packets+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

KJP · « **Reply #82 on:** March 21, 2012, 03:38:34 AM »

Quote from: musky on March 21, 2012, 03:14:03 AM

Not sure if it is only me, but I cannot get on the Scientificamerican.com website at all. Here is the Google cache version of the article:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wj6HHj0SIf0J:www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm%3Fid%3Dcheck-your-seed-packets+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I just tried it again, and it works. Sometimes I'll post a link directly from the article and I don't test it. Then I hear later that it doesn't work. So I was actually surprised it worked for me just now.

Weather Channel reports that Traverse City, MI is forecast to hit 87 today, 42 degrees above normal.

I slept with all my windows open last night, and a nice breeze blowing through. One of the benefits of living on the fifth floor near the lake are the breezes. One of the negatives is that from noon to about 9 p.m., it gets downright chilly here because of the lake breeze. Then, the hottest time of the day is in the late evening to about 1 a.m. as the land "exhales" to the lake, and sends all that hot air across all the sun-heated pavement and buildings toward the lake.

Gramarye · « **Reply #83 on:** May 09, 2012, 07:06:56 AM »

Now that it's May and we've cooled off a little bit from our March highs ...

(really, the whole point of this post was just to write that, but I need to finish that sentence somehow)

... I'm seriously tempted to slip out early and hit the bike trails in the middle of a weekday afternoon.

Robert Pence · « **Reply #84 on:** July 04, 2012, 09:54:29 AM »

Checking in briefly from my niece's house. Friday afternoon an 80-foot hackberry tree fell across my back porch and took out my power and FIOS lines. Electrical repairs to the house were completed this morning, and part of the tree still has to be removed before the power can be reconnected. Frontier said it could be 2-3 weeks or more before my phone/FIOS is back.

There probably are at least two more days' work to get the tree cut up and removed. It was at least 150 years old; when it's all down, I'll count the rings and see just how old it was. It was forked into three main branches, and one remains standing but has enough damage it has to come down. Of the two branches that fell, one went across the back porch and smashed the gutter and railing in addition to taking down the power and FIOS lines, and the other went alongside the house, broke a bedroom window, and grazed the edge of the roof, messing up a few shingles. It could have been worse, either one of those is heavy enough it could have crushed its way right through the house.

This afternoon my outside thermometer sensor, in the shade, read 103F. Inside was up to 87F. I've run an extension cord next door to my rental property to borrow enough power for a couple of lamps, a fan, and my refrigerator, and at night I open the upstairs windows to get rid of some of the heat buildup. I wish I could open up downstairs, too, but I'd have to stand guard all night with a weapon.

Fort Wayne was hit by a super derecho; prolonged high-velocity straight-line winds. The airport recorded a peak gust of 91mph. We experience downbursts often enough in summer, they're often destructive in a limited area but they only last a couple of minutes with lots of fury, rain, lightning, and thunder, and then the sun comes back out. These winds lasted for several minutes, followed by a downpour and lightning and thunder for a total of about 20 minutes. Just as the commotion ended, the storm-warning sirens went off. Damage is widespread across the region, and Indiana Michigan Power has called in crews from as far away as Colorado.

I've taken lots of photos. I'll post them when I have my desktop (Photoshop and FTP) back.

MayDay · « **Reply #85 on:** July 04, 2012, 10:39:03 AM »

Holy crap, Rob! Sorry to hear that - our area got hit with some nasty weather but not quite like that.

Robert Pence · « **Reply #86 on:** July 05, 2012, 02:31:59 PM »

Still no power (or AC), no FIOS (internet). Tomorrow's forecast calls for 106F, heat index 111. Today I finally got to talk to a human at I&M Power, and got a work order written.

KJP · « **Reply #87 on:** July 05, 2012, 05:51:17 PM »

While it has rarely climbed above 85 along Cleveland's lakefront, if I travel several blocks inland, the temperature on my car's thermometer rises 10+ degrees (or drops as much as I head north of Interstate 90). The benefits of a lake breeze!!!

However, these are some of the enduring images for me in this hot summer......

gotribe · « **Reply #88 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:36:46 AM »

Quote from: KJP on March 21, 2012, 03:38:34 AM

Quote from: musky on March 21, 2012, 03:14:03 AM
Not sure if it is only me, but I cannot get on the Scientificamerican.com website at all. Here is the Google cache version of the article:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wj6HHj0SIf0J:www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm%3Fid%3Dcheck-your-seed-packets+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I just tried it again, and it works. Sometimes I'll post a link directly from the article and I don't test it. Then I hear later that it doesn't work. So I was actually surprised it worked for me just now.

Weather Channel reports that Traverse City, MI is forecast to hit 87 today, 42 degrees above normal.

I slept with all my windows open last night, and a nice breeze blowing through. One of the benefits of living on the fifth floor near the lake are the breezes. One of the negatives is that from noon to about 9 p.m., it gets downright chilly here because of the lake breeze. Then, the hottest time of the day is in the late evening to about 1 a.m. as the land "exhales" to the lake, and sends all that hot air across all the sun-heated pavement and buildings toward the lake.

Nice thing for you also is in the fall and early winter, it always stays a few degrees warmer during the day with the warm lake. To top that off, the lake effect snow typically gets pushed inland past your place. There are joys to living on the lake.

Gramarye · « **Reply #89 on:** July 06, 2012, 05:39:38 AM »

I think Akron was mercifully spared, considering how Cleveland and Columbus (and even Canton) were hit. I didn't even have my lights flicker. I got an incredible view of some lightning, though (my apartment is one of the highest in the city), and got a great new Words With Friends bingo out of it as well (derecho ... can't wait to pull that one on someone). I wonder how the suburbs fared. Since I'm downtown, I'm guessing that the grid is more robust here. (I don't know if I get an even bigger benefit than I might otherwise because I'm right next to Akron Children's Hospital, or if the hospital simply has its own backup generators but no additional reinforcement from the primary grid that might support surrounding properties as well.)

Mov2Ohio · « **Reply #90 on:** July 06, 2012, 05:52:27 AM »

In the past week my lights only flickered off for one second, then came right back on twice. The thing I hate about that is resetting all the clocks/appliances

natininja · « **Reply #91 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:52:45 PM »

Why are all the freak bad weather words inherited from Spanish? Derecho, El Nino?

Robert Pence · « **Reply #92 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:56:58 AM »

101F at 7 pm in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I've lost track of the number of consecutive days we've had temps over 100. Those ordinarily happen just a few times, perhaps two or three, in any summer, and nights usually are cool. Our nights have been "cooling down" to the low eighties lately.

KJP · « **Reply #93 on:** July 09, 2012, 02:07:00 PM »

Quote from: natininja on July 06, 2012, 12:52:45 PM

Why are all the freak bad weather words inherited from Spanish? Derecho, El Nino?

Well, that's two anyway.

Dizzy · « **Reply #94 on:** July 09, 2012, 05:45:57 PM »

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/glossary.htm Spanish, French, Greek. The NWS has adopted a lot of non-english words for weather.

Loretto · « **Reply #95 on:** July 25, 2012, 12:57:15 PM »

Lower 48 wind visualization
http://hint.fm/wind/

Great Lakes surface currents visualization
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/currents/

musky · « **Reply #96 on:** July 26, 2012, 02:34:33 AM »

^Those are awesome.
Love weather related info. Thanks!

MyTwoSense · « **Reply #97 on:** August 24, 2012, 06:36:09 AM »

Here comes Isaac!

KJP · « **Reply #98 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:28:32 PM »

At sunset this evening, I took this photo from my balcony on the west side of Cleveland of two thunderstorms that radar showed were about 30 miles east of the city (shortly before 8 p.m. EDT) and heading into Pennsylvania....

weatherphotographer · « **Reply #99 on:** September 09, 2012, 03:51:29 PM »

There's a debate going on right now on a FB page about too many warnings, etc. It brings up a great point. It seems that the closer the storm s get to a metro area (Columbus Dayton Cincy etc), the more the warnings are posted. Yes, there's more people, of course, but I think some of this might lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome. The Mont. County warning Friday night was totally warranted, as a 4 block area around Wilmington Pike in Kettering had cars flattened from trees, and substantial property damage! But for some areas like Cincinnati, the actual storm didn't really get going until it was past the city, and spun up a brief tornado in Clermont County.

The "dual polarized" radar at Wilmington should be able to make these events easier to warn on. It's not like they don't have the tools. I hope National Weather Service gets their heads out of the sand and realizes there is a need to address this and quick.

Dizzy · « **Reply #100 on:** September 09, 2012, 08:22:12 PM »

Quote from: weatherphotographer on September 09, 2012, 03:51:29 PM

There's a debate going on right now on a FB page about too many warnings, etc. It brings up a great point. It seems that the closer the storm s get to a metro area (Columbus Dayton Cincy etc), the more the warnings are posted. Yes, there's more people, of course, but I think some of this might lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome. The Mont. County warning Friday night was totally warranted, as a 4 block area around Wilmington Pike in Kettering had cars flattened from trees, and substantial property damage! But for some areas like Cincinnati, the actual storm didn't really get going until it was past the city, and spun up a brief tornado in Clermont County.

The "dual polarized" radar at Wilmington should be able to make these events easier to warn on. It's not like they don't have the tools. I hope National Weather Service gets their heads out of the sand and realizes there is a need to address this and quick.

Do you mean watches or warnings? I watched the storms roll in and all of the warnings that I saw seemed to be warranted for the conditions. As for the comment about the weather service pulling their head out of the sand, they are way ahead of you. It is an issue that is constantly evolving with all of the new ways that people are obtaining information. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/criteria/ That link is the criteria that the Wilmington office uses to issue warnings and advisories. The largest issue they face is getting the public to pay attention to whatever format they use.

gotribe · « **Reply #101 on:** September 10, 2012, 12:08:14 AM »

Quote from: weatherphotographer on September 09, 2012, 03:51:29 PM

There's a debate going on right now on a FB page about too many warnings, etc. It brings up a great point. It seems that the closer the storm s get to a metro area (Columbus Dayton Cincy etc), the more the warnings are posted. Yes, there's more people, of course, but I think some of this might lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome. The Mont. County warning Friday night was totally warranted, as a 4 block area around Wilmington Pike in Kettering had cars flattened from trees, and substantial property damage! But for some areas like Cincinnati, the actual storm didn't really get going until it was past the city, and spun up a brief tornado in Clermont County.

The "dual polarized" radar at Wilmington should be able to make these events easier to warn on. It's not like they don't have the tools. I hope National Weather Service gets their heads out of the sand and realizes there is a need to address this and quick.

I really don't see people freaking out running through the streets for safety when a weather warning is issued. Also, we need to remember, a warning is when a storm is immenent, and it's most likely going to happen soon. A watch is when weather conditions are favorable for severe weather, and it could possibly happen.

David · « **Reply #102 on:** September 10, 2012, 06:56:06 PM »

Everyone is saying that. I don't get it. I don't think there's too many warnings in Columbus. For the most part, they seem to come in handy, at least for me. They were making fun of the over-use of warnings in the "Sh!t people in Columbus Say" video. I wonder if that idea has just went viral from that.

Dizzy · « **Reply #103 on:** September 24, 2012, 04:58:46 AM »

NWS has a survey up on the main page of their website. Let them know how to improve the service.

http://www.weather.gov/

Loretto · « **Reply #104 on:** October 02, 2012, 05:46:51 AM »

Weather Channel Will Start Naming Winter Storms
by EYDER PERALTA

For a long time now, winter storms that cause significant headaches are named posthumously. Think about the Knickerbocker Storm of 1922, which got its name after it collapsed the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater in Washington, D.C, or the School House Blizzard of 1888, which killed hundreds, including many students making their way to school.

Today, the Weather Channel announced it will be naming winter storms before they impact an area. In its release about the new convention, The Weather Channel says part of the reason winter storms are not named is because there is nothing equivalent to the National Hurricane Center for winter storms.

...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/02/162156615/weather-channel-will-start-naming-winter-storms?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Author Topic: Let's talk about the weather! (Read 9100 times)