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Weather => General Weather Discussion => Topic started by: elagache on June 27, 2016, 10:34:18 PM
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Dear WeatherCat users in the western parts of the United States,
The four corners high pressure ridge that traditionally dominates weather in the later part of summer has been extremely strong at an unusually early part of summer. The high temperature for today at Canebas is about 4-1/2˚ F below the record that was set in September of last year and it might still go higher. Tomorrow is supposed to be still hotter, so that record might fall before the end of June. Southern California is supposed to worse off as well as Arizona and New Mexico.
So how are you guys coping with da' heat? . . . . . . [sweat2]
Edouard
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We missed our all time high temperature record last week by just one tenth of a degree. We are coping by holding a family reunion in Park CIty, Utah, where we had a freeze warning Saturday night! Spending time with our 12 grandchildren is some of the best entertainment we cab have.
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Hi Blick and Edouard
86.4 here in central Ohio and not even a breeze blowing HOT [sweat2]
cheers
[cheers1]
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I'm coping by hanging out in the air conditioning, all day, every day. Well, almost every day. I have a large lawn that is still growing, so I try to time mowing for just after the cool fronts. Had one blow through here yesterday and today. Yesterday, high of 91 dropped to below 84 around 2:45pm, and again at 8:45 dropped from 83 to below 73. Got a rain out of that one. Today, high of 86 dropped to 74? in one hour around 4pm. Rained on that one, too. Altogether, we got a little over a quarter inch.
It is supposed to be cooler, down in the mid 80's for highs, over the next few days. One of them will see me riding the mower for a couple of hours.
[cheers1]
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I "inherited" a John Deere riding mower somewhat larger than I really need, However, I can now 'weedeat', mow, and blow the yard in under two hours. Since the Sun is available for much longer these days, I can wait until 5 or even 5:30 and still be done before "Mom" tells me to come inside! Early in the day would be cooler, but the dew is usually so heavy that it simply clogs up the mower. This mower, and the one it replaced, is an electric start, riding type. And yet, I still can't get my wife interested in practicing her driving skills with it! [banghead] [lol]
BTW, we got 1.50 inches yesterday from that system that came through your area. Woke us up around 5:30 am! Next time, slow it down a bit, it will let us sleep longer and you might get more of the precip! [tup]
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If these trees and hills can't slow it down, I don't think I can with my arm waving and shouting. [lol] Our rain movement pattern was from NNE to SSW, anyway. Not to undamped your spirit, this time our weather headed toward Texarkana. Since you inherited the mower, I'll bet it's the tractor and not the zero-turn version. I'm hooked on zero-turn now. Without it, my yard would take three hours to do. Too many trees, rocks, bushes and objects of dubious purpose.
[cheers1]
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It has cooled off in Des Moines finally. Supposed to be cooler through at least the 4th. Rain has been a problem much like a lot of places. It has gone around Des Moines. The average rainfall at my place has been about 5 inches, but we had 1.23 inches this month.
June has been much like July weather, I am guessing if the trend continues, October should be hell on wheels.
So today the windows are open, air conditioning has been turned off, the yard is brown and the garden is doing alright.
Keep hydrated in this weather.
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Our rain movement pattern was from NNE to SSW, anyway.
Not what I was watching yesterday. But it was minimal rain in your area. It simply intensified and built as it moved SSE. Obviously a cool front with clearing. Take a look at a Windity (http://mid-southweather.com/wind_map.html) map and check the various altitudes, what we see on the ground of the cloud bottoms may not be what is happening even at higher altitudes. I also like the WU composite radar maps (https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states-regional/ar/little-rock/animated), great for seeing what might be coming.
Furthermore, I know this weather came from your area because of the fish that came out of your lake and fell during the downdrafts! :o Most were too small to eat, of course. I guess they were 'small fry'? (http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/xAirbusDriver/Groaner_zpsjqr46wqw.gif)
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Dear Blick, Randall, Herb, X-Air, Weatheraardvark, and WeatherCat who don't like too hot . . . .
Sorry to hear that excessive heat has been a problem everywhere. If it is any consolation, France has been cool and very wet thus far this summer. I would gladly relieve them of the rain if there was any way to get to California. I suppose Iowa would also like some of that bounty.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Dear WeatherCat inhabitants of the 2016 summer on planet Earth,
It appears that the 4-corners ridge has retreated just enough to allow the onshore flow to return to the San Francisco bay area. Yesterday's high was 95.2˚ F (35.2˚ C). The forecast high for today was 78˚ F. It appears it won't exceed over the current high of 74.3˚ F (23.5˚ C).
Go figure . . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/confused_do_no.gif)
Edouard
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Dear WeatherCatters in da' USofA, . . .
There is a dome of high pressure over a large part of the country and from California to the Eastern Seaboard there is sweltering heat. Of course there is the usual regional differences. Out here in the West it is a dry desert heat. For the Midwest and East is humid heat.
So US WeatherCatters, how are you coping with the heat? [sweat2]
Hiding inside with the A/C on killer frost . . . . . Edouard
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Cooling off here, Edouard. Been cloudy most of the day. Never got to 100? F but I'll give it an e for effort. High was 98.2 (36.8?C), already down to 87.0? F (30?C). Our heat has been frequently broken by these passing showers and mild thunder storms.
If it weren't for the insects, (kinda woodsy here) I'd go outside and listen the the thunder awhile.
[cheers1]
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We got to 98.9?F yesterday. Fortunately there were heavy clouds all day, even got 0.80 inches of ran from a CB early this morning. There's plenty of 'hot spots' to get some convection lift and the humidity is still in abundance. Any storm we get gives us a good watering since the winds under that high are so slight the storms just sits in one spot. [tup] They don't want to move in this heat anymore than the humans! [lol]
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They hit 96? F (36? C) in the Salt Lake Valley today, but here at altitude in the mountains, we could only muster 79? F (26? C). I went down into the basement and watched the Tour de France, then spent the afternoon on my to do list (see attached).
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Dear Herb, X-Air, Blick, and WeatherCat heat wave sufferers,
Well the hottest spots to the East have Northern California easily beat. Yesterday the high was 96.0˚ F (35.6˚ C). Today it was a little bit cooler at 92.9˚ F (33.8˚ C). We get some relief tomorrow before the furnace kicks back in for the rest of the work week. However, we are supposed to have a long-wave trough settle along the coast by the weekend that should bring the temperatures below normal.
We shall see!
Think cool thoughts! Edouard
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Here in Ohio, most of our high temps have been in the upper 80s to low 90s range, with overnight lows in the high 70s and low 80s. As you know, our problem is humidity. Even though it has been extremely dry this summer, we're still seeing humidity in the 60-80% range during the day and 90%+ overnight. Walking to the mailbox in 85? and 85% leaves you soaking by the time you get back inside.
We keep our AC set at 78?, which is comfortable with the drier air, and not so cold that going outside is a shock.
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Stop going to the mailbox! Nothing of importance comes that way. ;)
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Well here in central Ohio my problem is when it gets as hot as Steve said then we have no air moving 1 maybe 2 MPH when I lived in Oklahoma we had wind 10 to 20 MPH which help [sweat2]
cheers
[cheers1]
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People think I'm crazy when I tell them that many trees in OK actually point north! It's simply because the wind is so constant and usually from the south during the growing season! 8-|
Of course, some people think I'm crazy, no mater what I say ... [rolleyes2] [lol2]
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Dear Steve, X-Air, Randall, and WeatherCat heat and drought sufferers,
It has been unusually hot and dry across large swaths of the country. There are parts of the Midwest, South and Eastern seaboard that are now listed as suffering from a rain shortage according to the United States Drought Monitor:
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/)
I understand how the humidity could really be a burden and effectively force you inside beyond short periods. Alas even with an afternoon humidity of around 35% at about 90˚ F (32˚ C), you cannot be working outside for very long before you are hot and sweaty. Instead of a few minutes it is 30 minutes. Definitely limits your outdoor maintenance options!
Stop going to the mailbox! Nothing of importance comes that way. ;)
I strongly disagree! Going to the mailbox at least allows to see if they finally got around to repaving your street. Our street was supposed have been repaved in the "Spring" of 2016 . . . . [rolleyes2]
Nonetheless, there appears to be a slow accumulation of equipment and machinery suggesting that perhaps they will repave our street in the not too distant future - say the week of the Orinda Classic Car Show in September . . . . . [banghead]
If I didn't have bad luck . . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/D'oh.gif)
Grumble, grumble, grumble, . . . . Edouard
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Going to the mailbox at least allows to see if they finally got around to repaving your street.
Uhmn ... we use windows (the kind with glass in them) to determine that kind of info. [lol]
I do hope they will wait until after that show or do it tomorrow! [banghead]
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Dear X-Air and WeatherCat observers of governmental werk in action (or lack their of . . . . ) [rolleyes2]
Going to the mailbox at least allows to see if they finally got around to repaving your street.
Uhmn ... we use windows (the kind with glass in them) to determine that kind of info. [lol]
True, the windows are sufficient to see if the road is finally repaved, but you would be naive to supposed repaving a road is simply about pavement. There is this very strange game of "fix all the utilities" before the road is paved. It started with confirming the power poles were in good order. Then the water utility went through to check for leaks. Next the natural gas pipes got the once over. Every time, there would be guys painting the road with neon paint scribbling cryptic messages to one another. Somehow it is deeply troubling in the information age and with the proliferation of smart devices that construction people still communicate by putting "technical graffiti" on both public and private property. (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/confused_do_no.gif)
Therefore the daily visit to the mailbox allows one to keep tabs on all these construction types who are at the moment swarming all over the neighborhood like locusts!
I do hope they will wait until after that show or do it tomorrow! [banghead]
Unfortunately a neighbor made the mistake of calling the city and actually talking to the city engineer. Of course the city hadn't made any attempt to contact the residents directly about a small matter like losing access to your street for a period that has turned into weeks for some neighborhoods. According to the city engineer, our street is stated to repaving at the end of August. Given that this project is already only 2 months late at the most optimistic, so what is the likelihood that this estimate is any better than earlier ones ?!??? . . . . [rolleyes2] The fly in the ointment is that the show is only about one week after the work is supposed to start. So if these yokos actually manage to get started close to the current estimate . . . .
Thus the current feelings of concern . . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/caution.gif)
Edouard
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There is obviously some miscommunications between the various utility agencies!!!! Ours never check the need, and certainly never make any repairs before repaying!!! That is always done about two months afterward. I think the paving contractor pays the underground utilities a small fee for helping to create another job ... [rolleyes2]
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Dear X-Air and WeatherCat government observers,
There is obviously some miscommunications between the various utility agencies!!!! Ours never check the need, and certainly never make any repairs before repaying!!!
Yes I must confess no small amount of amazement that any attempt has been made to coordinate. However, in this case there does appear to be a legitimate excuse. They are using a new paving technique that involved removing essentially all of the old road surface and some of the dirt underneath. If their happened to be a natural gas line too close to the old road . . . . . *BOOM!*
Our gas utility Pacific Gas and Electric is already in hot water because an natural gas explosion that killed a few people a few years ago. So these days they are very careful!
That doesn't mean all sort of other utilities might fail just after they repave. After all Murphy's law does apply! [biggrin]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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I'm seeing more of that kind of re-paving, also. Not sure if it is to save the expense of raising all the man hole covers or if they are actually re-using the macadam. If not done this way occasionally, the part of the curb that is in the 'street' can get covered or there starts to be a drop down from the pavement to the curb. Either way, problems/breakups can occur when the edge starts to break at driveways or the thin layer of asphalt doesn't stick well to the concrete curb.
Cooperation seems to be an afterthought, at least when my street was built ~20 years ago. Recently had a double sized 'storm drain' collapse at one edge of my property. The city got to within 24 hours after my report. But in digging out the broken curbing, they found that the concrete had been poured partially on top of the gas line. Can't blame the city, we were even in their area when we built the house and who knows who the county hired to pour the curbs back then. [banghead] [lol] Oh well, the city did a great job of restoring the operation of the double wide drain.
They also poured some concrete in a hole near the driveway on the other side of our lot. There was a hole, under the concrete curb where water drained off my property. I could reach almost an arms length into the hole and feel under the 12 inch+ thick curb. I don't think they ever figured out the water was going, using some dye-colored water. I may find out one day when I drive in/out and the pavement collapses!!! :o