Topic: What describes your area

[Skywatch]

Hello, Sorry if this is in the wrong board. I'm trying to get an idea of where most weather buffs here. I live in a suburban area so it can be hard for me to get an idea of what everyone else has to work with. I'm just posting this so I can be more of a help here.

[Old Tele man]

...ex-farm (cattle) land, in "high" scrub desert.

[Bushman]

Mine is in the mountains - lakeside.

[smorris]

I marked Farm/Country, although I am surrounded by Suburbia.

I live west of Cleveland in one of the fastest growing areas in northern Ohio. All of the surrounding communities used to be small villages with lots of farms. Now many of them have become cul-de-sac communities.

However, the immediate area where I live used to be one of the ancient beach ridges of glacial Lake Erie, resulting in rich sandy soil. This resulted in several large commercial greenhouse and nurseries to locate here. I back up to one of the larger in the area, and have fallow fields and woods to the east of me. So while I'm in a row of half a dozen houses from the 1800s to the 1970s, I'm in what would generally be called country. (Here I am on my CWOP summary)

[Downlinerz2]

   I am farm/country or rural but the suburbs are getting closer all the time.  Still have fields across the street and behind.

[xykotik]

I chose "mountains" from the selections.  We're in the foothills of the Cascade Range just outside the urban growth boundary, but that IS mountainous compared to the eastern USA mountains.  It's about 25 miles to snowcaps to the SE, and about 10 miles to sea-level and Puget Sound saltwater to the west.  Urban Seattle and Tacoma are 20 miles NW and 15 miles SE respectively, with semi-rural farms and suburbs in between.  "Mountains" by itself overwhelms all of the other local choices for my place.

[Skywatch]

I chose "mountains" from the selections.  We're in the foothills of the Cascade Range just outside the urban growth boundary, but that IS mountainous compared to the eastern USA mountains.  It's about 25 miles to snowcaps to the SE, and about 10 miles to sea-level and Puget Sound saltwater to the west.  Urban Seattle and Tacoma are 20 miles NW and 15 miles SE respectively, with semi-rural farms and suburbs in between.  "Mountains" by itself overwhelms all of the other local choices for my place.

Awesome. I used to live a few miles North of Seattle in a town called Everett Washington. The house I was born in was just up the block from the Puget Sound. The good old days.


   Washington is beautiful. I miss the snow capped mountains above the line of pine trees. When I was little the foothills looked like mountains. Of course when your little can't tell the difference. I was 5 when I last lived there.

[paleoguy]

In a village...next to a lake.

[Dr Obbins]

Rolling hill farmland - The wind has miles of fields to cross before getting here.

Sorry, just a single rainbow.

[CNYWeather]

Rural, old farmland for me.

Love the peace and quiet, lots of flat land, and woods to explore.
Only 15 minutes to my work too.

[SpHwk]

Suburban, fortunately next to some farm land.

[tobyspond]

Suburban with pond, land, and nearby farm

[d_l]

Suburban on one side with half acre and larger lots on the down wind side.  High desert scrub brush immediately on the other, upwind, side.  At the ~5000-foot elevation, yet not in the mountains, but only a few miles away from their base.

[Beaudog]

Well I picked farm/country but that really is no where close to High Desert where I actually live.

[johnah]

I guess you would call it suburban, but we have corn and bean fields in the neighborhood and a family of deer visit our front yard.

[ocala]

Pretty much country and farm.
Surrounded by woods on one side and a bog with a small lake on the other.
When you walk out into that bog the temperature drops by about 5 degrees because the ground is so wet. Consequently my night time temps are are about 4 degrees lower then all the other stations around me while the daytime temps are the same.

[AridZona]

Very rural desert area here with mountain ranges 6 miles to the south and 30 miles to the north.

[Sigdigit]

You have Mountain as a poll selection, but you don't have the opposite "Valley".  That would be me.  Makes for some interesting temp and dewpoints.  Wind is pretty boring here, which is just fine by me.

[skinnysqueaky]

Farming/Cottage

  I live on the banks of the Niagara river between the two great lakes, Erie and Ontario. We are on the north east bank of the upper river about 2 miles from the falls, we can see the mist of the falls most days of the week.  I guess that we live in cottage country with farming just across the road.  We call this peninsula area the banana belt.  On the lake effect snow/rain days you can look north or south and see the clouds and be in sinshine. As the prevailing winds come from the south west across the river we can have a 10 degree difference from the river side of the house and the street side.  Makes for a complex sensor placement issue.

[Sigdigit]

Good God man!  Some of you guys live in areas that, well, I don't know how else to say it, would be considered by folks like me to be "inhospitable".

[W3DRM]

You have Mountain as a poll selection, but you don't have the opposite "Valley".  That would be me.  Makes for some interesting temp and dewpoints.  Wind is pretty boring here, which is just fine by me.

That's me too. Would be nice to have a "High Desert Valley" selection. I have mountains all around me but I don't live in the Mountains. Also, can't figure out why the poll was closed so quickly (7-days after being opened) 

Folks don't always submit their votes right away and thus, are left out of the polling numbers. Also, new viewers don't get a chance to join in either.

[Skywatch]

You have Mountain as a poll selection, but you don't have the opposite "Valley".  That would be me.  Makes for some interesting temp and dewpoints.  Wind is pretty boring here, which is just fine by me.

That's me too. Would be nice to have a "High Desert Valley" selection. I have mountains all around me but I don't live in the Mountains. Also, can't figure out why the poll was closed so quickly (7-days after being opened)  

Folks don't always submit their votes right away and thus, are left out of the polling numbers. Also, new viewers don't get a chance to join in either.

Do you have to question everything I do? Sorry If I closed this too soon.

[W3DRM]

You have Mountain as a poll selection, but you don't have the opposite "Valley".  That would be me.  Makes for some interesting temp and dewpoints.  Wind is pretty boring here, which is just fine by me.

That's me too. Would be nice to have a "High Desert Valley" selection. I have mountains all around me but I don't live in the Mountains. Also, can't figure out why the poll was closed so quickly (7-days after being opened)  

Folks don't always submit their votes right away and thus, are left out of the polling numbers. Also, new viewers don't get a chance to join in either.

Do you have to question everything I do? Sorry If I closed this too soon.

Uhhhh, I wasn't aware of questioning anyone other than to make a comment about such a short time for a poll being open, that's all. Nothing derogatory was meant. Please forgive me if I have caused you some concern or discontent. It most certainly was NOT intended.

BTW, been watching your thread on selling the 5-N-1 at the store you work at. If your management agrees to it that would be a great source for product to support our hobby.

[Skywatch]

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BTW, been watching your thread on selling the 5-N-1 at the store you work at. If your management agrees to it that would be a great source for product to support our hobby.


[/quote]Thanks. I havn't heard back from them yet. Not shure how long before they reply. Just praying they don't take it as spam. I told my manager today I put in word for the weather stations. I double cheaked today and shure enough we do sell Acu-rite clocks. I would think it's easier to sell products from a company the chain's already familuar with. Weather is a big topic builder at our grocery store. We're one of those stores where we wheel the carts out for the customers. We're engouraged to make conversation and I have gotten a picture of how big weather is among conversations. Providing those same customers with items to tell even more about the weather would add even more to those conversations. It's one thing to talk about the weather, it's another to know in detail about what's being talked about. I explained that to them in the message I sent. I didn't mention Wal*mart, Lowes, and Home Depot sell the stations because I figured that would be a conflict of intrest. Not shure if Market street is aware. I'm shure they keep en eye on those things from time to time. Hopefully some time this week I will get a reply. if so I will update the Acu-rite post.


Also I'm duplicating this poll and making the options unlimited.