Weather-watchers by SignyM

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Monday, May 26, 2008 6:47 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Given recent violent weather (twinned twisters in SOCAL???) I just wanted to give you this link

www.wunderground.com (That URL is short for 'weather underground" which may give some of you oldsters a chuckle) The nice thing about this site is that it will give you info from PWS (private weather stations) like "Tom's Backyard" or "Near Old Cemetary" in addition to the official ones. Given that none of my official weather stations reflect my real local weather (official temp 88F, real temp 104F) it's nice to be able to get real info with decent granularity.

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Let's party like it's 1929.

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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:31 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM

mmm, let's see, partly cloudy followed by several Days of Rage...

sounds good

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Monday, May 26, 2008 10:29 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Given recent violent weather (twinned twisters in SOCAL???) I just wanted to give you this link

www.wunderground.com Given that none of my official weather stations reflect my real local weather (official temp 88F, real temp 104F) it's nice to be able to get real info with decent granularity.

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Let's party like it's 1929.

Wow. Violent weather in spring time ? That must be a first !

Most of your 'real' local weather stations will reflect weather that's hotter and gives a lower rain fall amount than is typical for an area. Why ? Because they take the 'official' temp at airports most of the time, where the concrete tends to make readings unnaturally hotter than the surrounding area. Your " example " has it exactly backwards.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Monday, May 26, 2008 4:04 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Most of your 'real' local weather stations will reflect weather that's hotter and gives a lower rain fall amount than is typical for an area. Why ? Because they take the 'official' temp at airports most of the time, where the concrete tends to make readings unnaturally hotter than the surrounding area. Your " example " has it exactly backwards.

Well it's not an "example" it's a real occurrence. Both airports in my area (LAX and LGB) happen to be significantly closer to the ocean than where I live (LAX is right on the beach front). The other official station (USC) for some reason is just cooler during santa anas. When I read the temp at one local PWS station I thought maybe their thermometer was off, so I checked with the next nearest local PWS and got the same reading. What we get here is something called "santa ana" winds, a downslope movement of desert air which experience "compressional heating". During santa anas, it's possible for the downslope (Los Angeles) area to be hotter than the upper desert which is the source of the air... and that's why it was 104F in my neighborhood

AFA twinned tornadoes... that's just not supposed to happen in the LA basin! Especially towards the end of May, when all of our active weather is supposed to be over and done.

Anyway, I hope the site is useful to some and interesting to most.
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Monday, May 26, 2008 4:41 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I figured the twin tornados reference was simply a comment on AlGore's favorite silly movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Monday, May 26, 2008 6:20 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Never heard of "compressional heating" before (so I checked it out). Pretty interseting stuff. Almost like the reverse of the adiabatic effect. According to the UCLA website cold air starts in the Mojave desert and carried by the Santa Ana winds lose humidity and pick up as much as 29 degrees F for every mile it descends down to LA.

Isn't it a little late in the year for this?

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Monday, May 26, 2008 8:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-weather23-2008may23,0,2991627.
story

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:42 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by Veteran:
Isn't it a little late in the year for this?

Sure its late, but bad weather can happen any time. Heck, Cleveland once got snow on May 20th.

Check this out for interesting reading:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/document/weatherhistory.pdf

Sometimes it rains and the wind blows and sometimes you get tornadoes.

H

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:27 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Definitely late for us. Unlike the rest of the USA we're a Mediterranean climate and you have NO idea how different that is, even from the desert areas. That means we get "weather" only when the jet stream dips south enough to drag storms with it: our three wettest months are January, February, and March.

But MAY????

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:18 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I figured the twin tornados reference was simply a comment on AlGore's favorite silly movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

Well of course you did...

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:05 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

I saw some gnarly clouds Saturday and Sunday - kept an eye out for tornadoes but didn't see any.

Sigh - for all the years I lived in a tornado-prone area I never saw one. Now I have even less a chance.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:27 AM

KWICKO

I've only ever seen a couple. That's plenty enough. I could go the whole rest of my life without seeing or hearing another...

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:01 PM

CITIZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
I saw some gnarly clouds Saturday and Sunday - kept an eye out for tornadoes but didn't see any.

Sigh - for all the years I lived in a tornado-prone area I never saw one. Now I have even less a chance.

Apparently you're more likely to see a tornado in the UK than anywhere else in the world.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:50 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I figured the twin tornados reference was simply a comment on AlGore's favorite silly movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

Well of course you did...

Mike

The movie was just on t.v. this weekend, forget which channel, but still... multiple tornadoes in downtown LA. ? C'mon.... that's funny !

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:57 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
...Sure its late, but bad weather can happen any time. Heck, Cleveland once got snow on May 20th.

Check this out for interesting reading:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/document/weatherhistory.pdf

Sometimes it rains and the wind blows and sometimes you get tornadoes.

H

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out a little later got to run to a meeting. Just wanted to say you reminded me that Easter Sunday April 1969 we got 3 feet of snow in New York.

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Saturday, September 16, 2023 12:12 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Hurricane Lee barrels toward New England, forcing fishermen to flee rough seas

https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/hurricane-lee-barrels-toward-new-england
-forcing-fishermen-to-flee-rough-seas/

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Saturday, September 16, 2023 2:54 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Hurricane Lee barrels toward New England, forcing fishermen to flee rough seas

https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/hurricane-lee-barrels-toward-new-england
-forcing-fishermen-to-flee-rough-seas/

Since they start at the beginning of the alphabet during hurricane season when assigning names, the last hurricane that I heard about was Hilary. It was a tropical storm by the time it got to LA, and dumped an astonishing 2" of rain during what is normally a bone dry month for us.

Somehow, they got all the way to "Lee"? I guess I missed those hurricanes beginning with I,J, and K!

OH, BTW ... if a hurricane is particularly destructive, they retire the name. There will never be another huricane named Katrina. Just mental lint.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Saturday, October 28, 2023 8:12 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

more news on Hurricanes, Typhoon, Cyclone and Tornado

Horrifying footage of Acapulco, Mexico after category 5 hurricane Otis
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1718185595682402538#m

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