How's the weather been?

[johnnydmd]

Funny how the weather patterns have COMPLETELY changed in recent years. I have been an avid weather nut since I was a kid. Weather systems used to follow the jet stream across the US, from California. Now, every time we have a bad storm it's coming from Texas. That is probably why you guys are seeing the weather changing in the lower states, and needing to stock up on snow plows.

We have seen it here too. When I was a kid, I don't remember a single year we didn't go sledding. And every year we had to pack down the snow for the sled to make it down the hill. Now kids are lucky if there is even enough snow to sled on.

It has been about 12-15 years now since we have had anything more than a couple inches at a time, and never any more than a few inches accumulation before it melts.

Where I am at it seems completely random. Some years it's mild, some brutally snowy and cold. I guess it all has to do with what is going on in the Pacific, right?

When I was a kid in the 70's, that was a stretch of really cold weather here. The winters of 76 and 77 were especially cold, I remember dire warnings of a new ice age and how dangerous it was in 77 and that it would keep getting worse. The Chesapeake Bay froze over completely. Then in 78 and 79 it got warmer, but we had major blizzards both years and then another in 82 I think. Then in 96 we had a really cold winter and a record Blizzard. A little more than 10 years later, the worst snow in our history with back to back blizzards a couple of days apart in 2010. Then mild winters until 2014, when it was just one storm after another, and super cold. The bay froze over a good amount, not quite like 77 though. In 2016 we had the worst single day snowfall of all time in the area, something like 42 inches where I live. I remember thinking, "please just stop snowing!".

Recently we've had 2 or 3 very mild winters in a row. We had some kind of record setting snow drought too, with it finally breaking last year. Now this year, we are in the coldest long stretch of weather since that 77 winter. My friend just posted a pic from Middle River (part of Chesapeake). It was frozen over completely. I think over the next few weeks we might see one day where it reaches 40, but mostly it's sub freezing highs. All the ponds and rivers around me are frozen over.

I long since have stopped pretending I or anyone else can predict or understand it all They definitely didn't see this one coming, LOL.

 

[WickedFog]

We're getting some light snow. I don't expect more than a couple inches. But that's on top of the 6" or so we got the other day, which has not melted because we have remained below freezing for like a week now. It's supposed to hit 36° here in a few days, but I don't expect that to melt much at all.

And I hope it doesn't because I see some piles Breydon could rip around on with the Ryft when he returns next week

 

[Doom!]

We are supposed to hit 66F today. We have had below average rainfall again, going to be another miserable summer.

 

[9x19]

From my front door this morning...

 

[Lostinthewoods86]

From my front door this morning...
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We were supposed to be on the road to FW today, but they ended up canceling the competition tomorrow

 

[WickedFog]

We are supposed to hit 66F today. We have had below average rainfall again, going to be another miserable summer.

So I assume you're far enough away and the wrong direction for all the smoke to be affecting you much?

 

[Xraycer]

From my front door this morning...
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Meanwhile, in ski country....

 

[WickedFog]

Meanwhile in ski country....
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Weird. I think I read somewhere one time about weather changes being a sign of things to come

 

[Xraycer]

Weird. I think I read somewhere one time about weather changes being a sign of things to come

New NH tourism promo.

 

[WickedFog]

New NH tourism promo.
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Hey, at least all the morons that get lost in the wilderness up there won't freeze to death

 

[Xraycer]

Hey, at least all the morons that get lost in the wilderness up there won't freeze to death

That would be a down side

 

[Chubaka]

If it makes you feel better I'm blowing dry dirt while cutting 3mm off grass blades. Tshirt and sweating. Low 50s i think.

Woke up to frost and an ice cold Pepsi ready to drink in the bed of the truck.

 

[Xraycer]

If it makes you feel better I'm blowing dry dirt while cutting 3mm off grass blades. Tshirt and sweating. Low 50s i think.

Woke up to frost and an ice cold Pepsi ready to drink in the bed of the truck.

3mm? Dude, you have issues!

 

[Chubaka]

3mm? Dude, you have issues!

I'm getting paid to do it. And yes. I do. I call it characters.

 

[WickedFog]

If it makes you feel better I'm blowing dry dirt while cutting 3mm off grass blades. Tshirt and sweating. Low 50s i think.

Woke up to frost and an ice cold Pepsi ready to drink in the bed of the truck.

Hell, that's Python hunting weather!

 

[Doom!]

So I assume you're far enough away and the wrong direction for all the smoke to be affecting you much?

So far no, but it's hard to tell from inside my office at work. A few years ago it rained ash for about a week from the fires north of us and the fires from LA. It looked like it snowed on my car then.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

So far no, but it's hard to tell from inside my office at work. A few years ago it rained ash for about a week from the fires north of us and the fires from LA. It looked like it snowed on my car then.

that was 2018, something like 2 million acres burned that year. i had the ash snow thing happening down here to. i remember walking around the warehouse at work with safety glasses on to keep the ash out of my eyes.

 

[DavidB1126]

Yooo MIP axles, wildfire tough. The rest in this post is too crazy to share imo.

 

[WickedFog]

Yooo MIP axles, wildfire tough. The rest in this post is too crazy to share imo.

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They may have survived in shape, but they are probably garbage now because they will rust from here on out, and any hardening that was done is likely non-existent now.

I lost over $10,000 worth of precision measuring equipment in a fire. Most of it cleaned up ok, but the tools were useless.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

id be temped to throw a light coat of paint on them and give them a shot. see how long they last.