2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on

[Parliament 14260]

Gonna barely get cold enough I can start this thing.

[UTPhil2006 3807]

It's gonna be only 85 next week in Houston so that's exciting

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

It's going to be colder in Texas than here on Tuesday, for the low.

But holy shit our high is only 49 for Tuesday and Wednesday.  That's gotta be a record.

[clapclapclap 9000]

71/54 on Wed in the Metroplexus.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by clapclapclap

[GabrielsHorn 2183]

They are forecasting 4 in of snow in Denver, a foot along the front range. The Rockies definitely make life interesting. 

[XYZ 2154]

What winter weather? It’s fucking September.

[Bash Riprock 1695]

lubbock next week

 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Burn this thread to the ground

 

 

 

 

 

Wat?

[Hate 20108]

 

[Parliament 14260]

I believe the term is "Blue Norther."

[Storm the Field 5294]

1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Burn this thread to the ground

 

 

 

 

 

Wat?

Possible record high on Sunday followed by a record low on Tuesday. 70 degree swing in 48 hours, with 50+ coming in a single day. That's insane.

[Schulz2.0 28951]

Yeah, I'm right by the foothills in the SW Denver burbs. The current forecast is 89 on Monday and 6" of snow Tuesday. Supposed to be 28 Wednesday morning.

Edited September 5, 2020 by Schulz2.0

[texasjacket 289]

2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Yeah, I'm right by the foothills in the SW Denver burbs. The current forecast is 89 on Monday and 6" of snow Tuesday. Supposed to be 28 Wednesday morning.

Hopefully it isn't the wet/heavy snow that broken all my tree branches like it did about 3 years ago.

[Parliament 14260]

To get 6" of accumulated snow on top of warm ground, it's gonna take a lot.  

[Superhero 8830]

Meanwhile in CA, 15 miles from the coast, it’s 106. Supposed to hit 109 tomorrow. 
 

Global warming is real. 

[Guest Lobo]

This massive cold front over Central Texas today probably explains all the crazy chop out there on Lake Travis.  Thoughts and Prayers to the boaters braving the elements out there.  

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

Goodbye garden

[Superhero 8830]

4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Goodbye garden

Texas weather just the way I remember it. Heatwave on Monday, blizzard by Friday. 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2732]

71/54 on Wed in the Metroplexus.
 

Not so fast my friend.

[yoladu 4094]

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

First snowfall tonight

[Drunk Stoner 63]

An inch of snow on the ground right now.  Fuck winter weather and fuck the op...

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

It's chilly, but definitely not winter weather.  Mid-November weather.

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

It's chilly, but definitely not winter weather.  Mid-November weather.

You don't know Houston Sapien...

when it gets below 70.

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

2 minutes ago, slorch said:

You don't know Houston Sapien...

when it gets below 70.

A glimpse into my nearish future.

Truth be told, I like winter to an extent.  I just wish it ended on January 31st.  February is a shit month where you alternate between almost feeling like spring and polar vortexes, and March (and now often April) are these schizophrenic weather months where 70 degree swings over a 2-3 day window can happen and you can from pleasant to hellish blizzard and back through that time frame.

[BabaYaga 15298]

2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

hellish blizzard and back through that time frame.

Mom's family originally from Sioux City, IA.  Visited a few times as a kid.  Once during a particularly cold period.  Good lord that was miserable.  

This was me every day.  Like preparing for a moon walk just to go outside.  Tears frozen to your face.  Can't feel fingers and toes.  The wind.  

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

Just now, BabaYaga said:

Mom's family originally from Sioux City, IA.  Visited a few times as a kid.  Once during a particularly cold period.  Good lord that was miserable.  

This was me every day.  Like preparing for a moon walk just to go outside.  Tears frozen to your face.  Can't feel fingers and toes.  The wind.  

"The wind" is our version of "it's a dry heat".

But much like dry heat vs humid heat, it's true.  The wind just absolutely howls on the northern plains, and makes things so much worse.  I've been in 0 degrees with no wind, and the proper layers, and thought to myself "this isn't too bad".

[Parliament 14260]

I can make it to March, but yeah. It's not the depth, but the girth that I dislike.

[BabaYaga 15298]

6 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

"The wind" is our version of "it's a dry heat".

But much like dry heat vs humid heat, it's true.  The wind just absolutely howls on the northern plains, and makes things so much worse.  I've been in 0 degrees with no wind, and the proper layers, and thought to myself "this isn't too bad".

I never really appreciated the type of cold the Midwest gets until I read 'Empire of the Summer Moon' and how settlers and soldiers described a "different" type of cold and desolation.  

Quote

“Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.”

― S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

 

Edited September 8, 2020 by BabaYaga

[Bevo 13577]

On 9/5/2020 at 5:40 PM, Lobo said:

This massive cold front over Central Texas today probably explains all the crazy chop out there on Lake Travis.  Thoughts and Prayers to the boaters braving the elements out there.  

Winds picked up big time in NE Washington and N Idaho on Monday. I think they had 6 ft swells on Lake Pend Oreille yesterday. The temperature also dropped bigly. 

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

36 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

I never really appreciated the type of cold the Midwest gets until I read 'Empire of the Summer Moon' and how settlers and soldiers described a "different" type of cold and desolation.  

 

I listened to that as an audiobook during harvest last year.  Excellent, and I remembered that passage well.

We would have "white out safety" discussions at school as kids.  Every few years, someone in a place close enough to make the local news went out into a blizzard, got lost, and died.  On the farm where I grew up, the hog barns were about 200 yards south of the house.  There was no wind break to the west, so when there was fresh, loose snow, the wind would howl through and you couldn't see the barns from the house at times.  My mom tied a really long rope up to the front porch that we would use to find our way to the barn and back when it was really bad.

My grandpa was 5 when this happened, but he remembers it and still talks about it.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Armistice_Day_Blizzard

Edited September 8, 2020 by Al_4_ISU

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

I am fine with this.

However, the smoke from the fires yesterday was something else.

[Guest]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

yep had friends in Cali and CO share their weather screens like that yesterday.

Where yours says "Sunny, " theirs just said,  "Smoke"

 

Is that really a 'weather,' might as well just say, "Death."

Edited September 8, 2020 by slorch

[Schulz2.0 28951]

On 9/5/2020 at 6:58 AM, Parliament said:

To get 6" of accumulated snow on top of warm ground, it's gonna take a lot.  

We ended up with around 6" on our deck and vehicles. There was probably 2-3" on the ground. Probably helped that it rained for 12 hours or so before the snow actually hit.

[InkaUtexas 25942]

Nice... I just opened my windows and turned off my AC. First time in a long time the Feels like temp is lower than the real temp. Girl is curled up in bed. All is good in the triple 6. 

[Guest Lobo]

56 degrees and raining in South Austin.  Just shut the A/C off and kids are taking turns opening up all the windows.  Glorious.  

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

8 minutes ago, Lobo said:

56 degrees and raining in South Austin.  Just shut the A/C off and kids are taking turns opening up all the windows.  Glorious.  

50 degrees and raining in North Iowa.  Always blows me away when our weather is that similar 1,000 miles to the north.

In other news, I expect my sump pump to run for the first time in 3 months by the end of the day.

[Guest Lobo]

What the hell is sun pump?  /texanswithoutbasements 

[atomheartbevo 89668]

55 minutes ago, Lobo said:

56 degrees and raining in South Austin.  Just shut the A/C off and kids are taking turns opening up all the windows.  Glorious.  

58 in central Austin and drizzle

[closetohumping 17442]

55 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

50 degrees and raining in North Iowa.  Always blows me away when our weather is that similar 1,000 miles to the north.

In other news, I expect my sump pump to run for the first time in 3 months by the end of the day.

I've lived all over the country, including Seattle.  There were days where it was hotter in Seattle than it was in Austin.  I think it was November 15th or something.

[miguelito 11266]

55 in north Boerne this morning.

 

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

7 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

I've lived all over the country, including Seattle.  There were days where it was hotter in Seattle than it was in Austin.  I think it was November 15th or something.

Nuts.

Reminds me of when we came down to Ft. Worth for the 2012 TCU/ISU game.  High that day was like 55.  It was in the high 60's in north Iowa.  Mid Octoberish.

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

55 minutes ago, Lobo said:

What the hell is sun pump?  /texanswithoutbasements 

To be fair, we shouldn't have basements either.  As a buddy of mine (retired city water department guy) says "tornadoes are the only reason to have a basement in Iowa".

But my house has one.  And I have a bar down there.  So I do what I can to keep it dry.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

26 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

I've lived all over the country, including Seattle.  There were days where it was hotter in Seattle than it was in Austin.  I think it was November 15th or something.

I went to Seattle for a week in July/August of last year.  I packed badly.  It was sunny and in the 80s the whole time., I sweated a lot walking everywhere.

[closetohumping 17442]

1 minute ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I went to Seattle for a week in July/August of last year.  I packed badly.  It was sunny and in the 80s the whole time., I sweated a lot walking everywhere.

Yeah, I mean summers there are great.  80s aren't so bad, the weather there is actually really mild.  Not a lot of days below 30 or above 90. 

19 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

To be fair, we shouldn't have basements either.  As a buddy of mine (retired city water department guy) says "tornadoes are the only reason to have a basement in Iowa".

But my house has one.  And I have a bar down there.  So I do what I can to keep it dry.

 

[High Plains Drifter 11049]

 

We broke the all time record twice a week ago for highest temp on those days. Then yesterday we went from 100 high to ~40 low in 12 hours (radio said 42, my thermometer said 38 outside my front door), which broke the all time record for low temp on that date. wtf?

[Tailgate 3021]

60 degrees in south Austin. Windows open throughout the house. It’s happening!

[Redpuma 146]

just below 60 in central austin. doors and windows are wide open 

[Chet Steadman 940]

This week in Austin lookin’ reallllll nice, Clark. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Mom's family originally from Sioux City, IA.  Visited a few times as a kid.  Once during a particularly cold period.  Good lord that was miserable.  
This was me every day.  Like preparing for a moon walk just to go outside.  Tears frozen to your face.  Can't feel fingers and toes.  The wind.  

I bet the cold air really gives the meat packing plant smell that lingers over that city an extra kick.

Not as bad if the temps were in the 90s