Topic: Winter '16-'17

[zackdog]

Storm lasted three days and was not too bad for me, except for the wind.  I got 11" out of the storm, while Winter Park ski area got 28".  They are about ten miles SE of me.  Snow stopped late yesterday afternoon along with the wind, so I went out to blow out the driveway.  I got the drive cleaned out but did not clean up the turnaround or behind the truck.  The job took an hour and ten minutes, which is almost a half hour longer than it would when it was not wind packed drifted snow.  About half of the drive had 18" drifts all the way across it.

It is supposed to be sunny today, so when it warms up, currently -15° F, I will go finish blowing snow.

Mark

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[Scalphunter]

Good morning from an balmy  25 below and under an record barometer for the year. Barometer reading 31.10. This intense pressure if hangs around will tip us over the edge to hit -40 F/C. Saturday nite one forecasted showed -37.  Hooray maybe winter finally got here.

John

[Bunty]

It snowed about an inch in Stillwater last night, enough to close schools.  Plenty cold enough for the snow to stick. Scene from my back door.  Oklahoma City got around 3 inches.  Low expected Saturday morning around 4.   It will be interesting to see what the snow does in the South.


http://www.stwnewspress.com/news/residents-wake-up-to-blanket-of-snow/article_c7935f1e-c96c-5ff4-be3e-eccce24ca46f.html

[BigOkie]

Temperature starting to  slide  towards -30 which is forecasted for Friday night as an 1057 mb  parks itself  over head. Barometer is at 31.83 in/hg  at the present and climbing. Been  blowing all day as the  temps  dropped  during the day.  Lot of fresh blowing snow  to move where  the over night  dump and blowing snow filled back in the  dooryard.  fired up the little orange  tractor and  started moving  it by the  bucket full. Couple hours later  cleared out  the dooryard and  cleared some of the road in front of the property.  Our road is not an high priority on the state plowing  list.


 John

Wow.  31.83.  I would have a massive headache by that point, because when it got up to 31.02 about two years ago and lasted for a day or so I was miserable.  I couldn't believe pressure could do that but my PCP told me he'd seen several people who were complaining about headaches.  That's high pressure right there.

[BigOkie]

It snowed about an inch in Stillwater last night, enough to close schools.  Plenty cold enough for the snow to stick. Scene from my back door.  Oklahoma City got around 3 inches.  Low expected Saturday morning around 4.   It will be interesting to see what the snow does in the South.


http://www.stwnewspress.com/news/residents-wake-up-to-blanket-of-snow/article_c7935f1e-c96c-5ff4-be3e-eccce24ca46f.html

Yeah, this is what it looked like from my front porch this morning about 8am:

[ocala]

Finally some decent rain last night. 2.96. That's more then the last 3 months combined. Was woke up about 2:30 last night as the weather radio was going off. Jacksonville said there was rotation in the storm but it just turned out to be a good rain maker.
Temps and dews are crashing behind the front. Will be a cold stretch for us the next couple days.
   

[Jáchym]

Just came back from Prague, it was -17C (1F) last night. Now the sun is about to set in an hour and it is much colder than this time of the day yesterday so it is likely to drop even lower tonight

[ocala]

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's.
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's in the panhandle to 80's down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's and 30's in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps. 

[Jáchym]

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's.
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's in the panhandle to 80's down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's and 30's in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's (4C).
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's (-7C) in the panhandle to 80's (26C) down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's (-7C) and 30's (-1C) in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

   Dont forget about us Celsius guys

[Bunty]

Wow, more than just a few below zero lows Saturday morning in Oklahoma.  Two locations in Oklahoma had -12(-24C) for the lowest.  I had 4 (-15.5C).  Most Stillwater area WU stations were just above zero,(-18).  Back to the 60s on Tuesday.

[ocala]

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's.
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's in the panhandle to 80's down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's and 30's in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's (4C).
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's (-7C) in the panhandle to 80's (26C) down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's (-7C) and 30's (-1C) in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

   Dont forget about us Celsius guys

Your right. I keep forgetting. I need to print out a F/C chart so I remember.

[Jáchym]

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's.
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's in the panhandle to 80's down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's and 30's in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

Temps dropping fast here. Now in the upper 40's (4C).
Quite a range of temps in the state. From the 20's (-7C) in the panhandle to 80's (26C) down south.
Indeed a strong cold front.
Those 20's (-7C) and 30's (-1C) in the panhandle are 12:00 EST temps. Not sunrise temps.

   Dont forget about us Celsius guys

Your right. I keep forgetting. I need to print out a F/C chart so I remember.

Thanks! I actually personally dont really care, given how much time Ive spent with all this in the past year and half and given I work with both units Im now quite familiar with both and have an idea of what is "really cold" etc. but for the world outside US it is usually (not the case of all) completely alien

[chief-david]

Barometer just hit 30.702 inches

not the highest ever recorded by me, but high.

At least it is up to 6F

[Jáchym]

Here you can see nicely the differences we have now here, the entire continent is well below average, but part of it (including my country) is now influenced by the very cold arctic front that moved in to the central EU area, my country is right at the tip of the purple area.

[Scalphunter]

Mid day sun today. Not much warmth from it. Not high enough to register solar data.

John

[alexstaar]

Very cold day here in northern Alabama, USA today. Low this morning at my place was 13.1ºF (-11ºC) with an afternoon high of 25.9ºF (-3ºC) under clear and sunny skies. Not a cloud to be seen. Expecting an all time record high pressure at my place tomorrow morning. Current record is 1043.08 mb; expecting at least ~1044 mb by tomorrow morning. That's very high for this far south. Normal strong high pressure is in the ~1035 mb range. P.S. - I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

[CW2274]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

[WheatonRon]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

Yep. Mbs doesn't mean anything to me! It is even worse than centigrade! At least i can easily convert centigrade to farenheit!

[Jáchym]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

You mean 99.9% of Americans dont you, Im ok with it I.e. 99.9% of negligible 4% of world population

Just kidding

1043 hPa = 30.79 inHg
1044 = 30.82
1035 = 30.56

[alexstaar]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

You mean 99.9% of Americans dont you, Im ok with it I.e. 99.9% of negligible 4% of world population

Just kidding

1043 hPa = 30.79 inHg
1044 = 30.82
1035 = 30.56

I suppose I could have converted the units... Oh well! Thanks for doing that for me 

[CW2274]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

You mean 99.9% of Americans dont you

I do. After all, we did invent weather.

[Jáchym]

Farenheit... sometimes I just keep asking myself why



I understand you guys are now used to it, but why in the first place was C not introduced long time ago just like in... just like in any other country

[Jáchym]

I'm a meteorologist so I don't like using inHg 

But the other 99.9% of us do.

You mean 99.9% of Americans dont you

I do. After all, we did invent weather.

Interesting concept I guess I always thought weather was "invented" by the law of physics

[CW2274]

 

[ValentineWeather]

Farenheit... sometimes I just keep asking myself why



I understand you guys are now used to it, but why in the first place was C not introduced long time ago just like in... just like in any other country

Why because it has more integers and Fahrenheit is superior for measuring temperature precisely. We got it right the rest of the world screwed up IMO.
http://www.zmescience.com/other/fahrenheit-vs-celsius-did-the-u-s-get-it-right-after-all/