Weather 2011

Can't say I am looking forward to the autumn weather! That usually means rain and more rain. . . .Although hail is not uncommon in summer I have not seen it this season. The temperature here at our summerhouse today was 22C, not bad as the "hottest" day this summer was about 26C. It is 17C in the sea and tomorrow I intend to take a morning bath :o

deesen wrote:

Hoy wrote:

Can't say I am looking forward to the autumn weather! That usually means rain and more rain. . . .

Sounds like a Devon August! ;D

Should wish it lasted only August and not 9 months :o

Hope you don't get hit too hard, Mark! Seems I'll be hit too - in a couple of weeks :o

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene?smid=tw-nytimes

Good luck to all in Irene's path! 

You coastal and near coastal dwellers have all the fun  :rolleyes:

Mark, did you fare OK with Irene?  I'm in Chicago babysitting grandchildren so missed everything.  My son reported that the barn was flooded and water was running over the driveway but everything else was OK and we have power.  That's remarkable.  It used to be that 4 minutes of rain was equal to 4 hours power failure on our place.  He didn't check the garden, so who knows?  I've seen the pictures of the flooding in the Catskills and it's unbelievable.  Hope everything is OK with you.

So pleased to hear that your properties are safe folks.  Anne, have you heard if all the Berkshire members have escaped major disruption?

Cliff, I don't get home until Friday and will be checking on everyone then.  My sister in Connecticut has been without power and water since Saturday.

Irene is here! But she arrives like all other low pressure systems of this time of the year:
http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7773579

McDonough wrote:

After a couple days of clear, dry, breezy not-too-hot days, it's back to being hot and humid, 86 F (30 C) with high humidity. Taking a quick trip around the garden with my camera, my feet and legs are bitten up badly from a fresh crop of tiny, fast moving, ravenous mosquitoes, no doubt a result of so much rain in last week's hurricane/tropic storm event and prior rain all season. Still waiting for a confirmed cooling trend, and a day below 70 F (21 C).

I am always waiting for the above-70F-days!

Or you can move to: http://www.yr.no/sted/Antarktika/Annet/Sydpolen~6269204/langtidsvarsel.html

Such is life, living right next to the Rockies. I have a friend in Boulder who saw a parked car blown across the street during one of Boulder's infamous windstorms. And he also saw a roof go sailing down the hill.
Here, I'm about 6.4km east of the foothills. Mount Falcon is 2377m so there isn't the dramatic slant to the foothills like the Flatirons in Boulder, and the winds are somewhat less frightening.
All sorts of things blow into the yard (and get stuck on the cactus). Never money, of course. One time we had high wind blowing for days, and at the end of it (I don't know how many times I've told this story) there was this box flapping in the front yard. It held an entire, almost fresh, cake, inscribed "Congratulations, Renee." Poor Renee.

Bob

Wind hasn't been nearly as bad here as in Calgary.
I can't resist posting pictures, so here's the mountain wave cloud this afternoon.

Bob

We have had a crazy weather the last three days. First a fullblown gale hit the northern parts of Norway and a high tide too (the highest recorded ever) damaged a few houses, sheds and boathouses. The next day another strong gale (both were caused by low pressure systems like hurricanes) hit the southern parts of Norway. The biggest waves that hit the coast reached about 20m tall. South of me two people, although standing far from the sea) were swept away and drowned. The next three days the weather forecast tells us that we will get a lot of rain (300mm). I crossed the mountains yesterday and timed the drive between the storms. However, the mild weather melted the snow even at the high mountains and a lot of meltwater and rain filled every creek and river  like the spring floods. All went well though - I was almost alone on the road!

Threw the cake on top of the compost pile, away from the lips of border collies, and the squirrels ate it all.

Bob

As my Great Aunt Mary would say - Zoy! (I think it's a Slovenian derivation.)  I'd like to see the Flying Nun negotiate that weather ;D.  That the downtown was closed really accentuates the severity of the matter.  Being from the "flatlands", it hard for me to grasp such a calamity with a storm accompanying.

And what a coincidence.  Today I was riding my bicycle and along side the road was an expensive looking unside-down cake pan still with cellophane wrap over the "top" (so I assume there was still cake).  I would have retrieved it for the pan, but then I would have been late for an appointment.

There was a patch on the side of the house where my neighbor claimed a railroad tie ("sleeper", across the ocean) was blown through the wall once. My neighbor is a nutcase, but it does get windy here. 90 mph, say (144.8 kph). Breezes.
Wind comes roaring down the eastern slope of the Continental Divide.
People who think that alpine plants are covered in snow all winter might contemplate the fact that the top wind speed recorded on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mtn. National Park is 176 mph (283.2 kph) ......
No cakes flying there.

Bob

I remember being in Boulder (where I majored in Stupidity) during a windstorm, and thinking it might be good kite-flying weather.
The kite went up, and was torn to pieces by the wind.
Highway 93, runs from Golden to Boulder, passes Rocky Flats, where no trees grow. There is a reason for that. It's difficult if not impossible to steer a car when the wind really blows.
On a railroad curve a little further north, at equally treeless Marshall Flats, is a siding with line of abandoned coal cars filled with rocks, that I hear was left there as a windbreak, to keep trains from being blown over where the line curves and is particualrly vulnerable to high winds.
Well, at least it blows the smog away. 
But I've never heard of damage like you got.

Bob

Some weather pictures from the last days - not mine though!

http://www.vg.no/protokoll/?pid=1016

What about this? The whole year in one picture!

From this site:  http://nrkbeta.no/2011/01/06/et-helt-aar-i-ett-enkelt-bilde/