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Started by Desert Man, February 03, 2016, 12:54:07 PM

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ZLoth

It was a very nice 62℉ today in North Dallas, although a bit cooler than Wednesday and Thursday. I used the nice weather today to move items from my garage to the outside (temporarily) and give my garage a thorough sweeping through.
I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems and call them "paychecks".


Hunty2022

51 and foggy, for the final time I post on this thread in 2022.
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Billy F 1988

Now to kick things off for 2K23, 30 and cloudy in Missoula. We've pretty much cleared out all the storms and cold snaps from December, but, ole man winter isn't done with Missoula yet.
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kurumi

San Mateo, CA yesterday (and the pic is road related) (link to reddit thread)

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webny99

#5205
Quote from: webny99 on December 27, 2022, 10:07:03 AM
Buffalo once again got hammered with several feet of snow and several days of blizzard conditions, while 80 miles east we got hardly more than a dusting. Conditions were poor on Friday with light snow and heavy winds, but it was nothing like the Buffalo area.

We're used to large disparities in lake effect snowfall, but I'm still not sure there's ever been such great disparity in conditions between two cities so close to each other.

Drove through (really more like around) the Buffalo area today on I-90>I-290>I-190. There was no snow at all until Batavia, and then gradually increasing snow cover (mostly drifts) west of there. There was only a small area roughly from the Wehrle quarry to the I-290 junction where the ground was fully covered, with maybe a foot remaining at most. Everywhere else was mostly just drifts left. I must confess to being a tad disappointed - I was hoping to at least see several feet of snow, but that's what 4-5 days of mild temperatures with some rain will do.


jgb191

#5207
While not quite as warm as it was exactly a year ago on New Years Day 2022, but we'll still take this nonetheless:

Brownsville:      90 high (+18);  71 low (+18)
Corpus Christi:  87 high (+19);  69 low (+17)
Laredo:            89 high (+21);  66 low (+18)
McAllen:           91 high (+19);  70 low (+17)

With dew points approaching 70 degrees, Heat Index peaked in the 90s all across South Texas.

On this day a year ago, the town of Falcon Lake tied the all-time highest January recorded in Texas history with 98 degrees.
We're so far south that we're not even considered "The South"

ZLoth

Quote from: bing101 on January 01, 2023, 09:22:44 PM
https://www.kcra.com/article/northern-california-forecast-jan-1-sacramento-area-rain-flooding-sierra-travel/42375019
Same here in the Sacramento area.

Also CA-99 closed due to flooding.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/1-found-dead-car-off-dillard-near-hwy-99/103-3cc2b97f-60af-4417-8484-bede5f513cfd

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/san-joaquin-county-state-of-emergency-northern-california-weather/103-d6f034af-a4bc-4754-8163-6b06ed4e0aab

https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/weather-local/winter-storm-sunday-jan-1/103-8ead1368-d548-43f3-a28d-4c8aed94f50d

Just to put this into proper context.... here is the highest single-day precipitation totals in a year. Most of the time, you can see under a ½" of rain in a 24 hour period, with maybe an occasional 1½" falling in a 24 hour period, and the drainage systems are designed accordingly. In a typical rainfall year which is measured from July 1st to June 30th, most of the rain falls between the months of November through April. The months of June through September are noted for being very bone dry. Most of the water comes from the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Also, it is extremely rare to have a thunderstorm or hail in the area, with several years between each occurrence.

The last time I saw flooding this bad was on January 1st, 1997... the same day the Emergency Alert System was operational. There was a very cold system that dumped a ton of snow in the Sierra Nevada, followed by a warm system which melted the show.
I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems and call them "paychecks".

bing101

Quote from: ZLoth on January 02, 2023, 07:05:57 AM
Quote from: bing101 on January 01, 2023, 09:22:44 PM
https://www.kcra.com/article/northern-california-forecast-jan-1-sacramento-area-rain-flooding-sierra-travel/42375019
Same here in the Sacramento area.

Also CA-99 closed due to flooding.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/1-found-dead-car-off-dillard-near-hwy-99/103-3cc2b97f-60af-4417-8484-bede5f513cfd

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/san-joaquin-county-state-of-emergency-northern-california-weather/103-d6f034af-a4bc-4754-8163-6b06ed4e0aab

https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/weather-local/winter-storm-sunday-jan-1/103-8ead1368-d548-43f3-a28d-4c8aed94f50d

Just to put this into proper context.... here is the highest single-day precipitation totals in a year. Most of the time, you can see under a ½" of rain in a 24 hour period, with maybe an occasional 1½" falling in a 24 hour period, and the drainage systems are designed accordingly. In a typical rainfall year which is measured from July 1st to June 30th, most of the rain falls between the months of November through April. The months of June through September are noted for being very bone dry. Most of the water comes from the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Also, it is extremely rare to have a thunderstorm or hail in the area, with several years between each occurrence.

The last time I saw flooding this bad was on January 1st, 1997... the same day the Emergency Alert System was operational. There was a very cold system that dumped a ton of snow in the Sierra Nevada, followed by a warm system which melted the show.
I knew the area was still under drought watch for sometime until the snowpack in areas halfway from Lake Tahoe and Sacramento are thick in February-March timeframe.  Also places like Lake Folsom and Oroville Dam needs to be at full capacity to get out of the drought status.

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Roadgeekteen

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Current Interstate map I am making:

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gonealookin

A nice day, mostly sunny and about 35°F.  The sun does help compress the snowpack somewhat, but at 35°F for a high temperature not much can melt.

There are multiple storms in the forecast for the next several days and we would expect a few feet of additional snow.  When we get so much snow in a span of a couple weeks the issue becomes, what the heck do you do with it?  Storage space becomes minimal and eventually zero.  This happened here in January 2017.  The solution at that time was that my driveway opening became very narrow, really just a few inches of space on each side of the car with snow piled nearly to the height of the car's roof.

jgb191

Of the daily record highs in December 2022:  One day in Arizona, three days in California, 15 days in Florida, and 12 days in Texas.  The average of those days was 86 degrees; and the highest day last month was 90 degrees in Falcon Lake (TX) on December 6th and in Big Bend NP (TX) December 8th.


Totaling up all of the days in 2022: 

14 days in Arizona
80 days in Death Valley, CA
74 days elsewhere in California
70 days in Florida
3 days in Nevada (all in Laughlin)
2 days in Oklahoma
122 days in Texas

The hottest day in 2022 was 125 degrees on July 16 in Death Valley.
We're so far south that we're not even considered "The South"

Ted$8roadFan


kirbykart

Quote from: kurumi on January 01, 2023, 02:39:19 PM
San Mateo, CA yesterday (and the pic is road related) (link to reddit thread)



That assembly is strange. Usually California uses an arrow that points down, not up.

kphoger

It's pointing above the surface of the water, so motorists don't drown.
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Male pronouns, please.

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MultiMillionMiler

Temperature went up alot recently. It's now 290 Kelvins.

kirbykart

Quote from: MultiMillionMiler on January 04, 2023, 01:45:53 PM
Temperature went up alot recently. It's now 290 Kelvins.

In human that is 62 F/~17 C.

Roadgeekteen

God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

gonealookin



Another lovely January day in the neighborhood.  You can see what people who don't have garages here have to deal with, not only scraping the snow off your car but also digging away the snow the plow has come along and pushed around it.

Max Rockatansky

Just wind and moderate rain in Fresno County last night from the Bomb Cyclone.

skluth

It's cold. Only 56°F and raining, thanks to the Pineapple Express which continues to soak much of California. Not complaining though. We still need the rain and snow to replenish the reservoirs. Don't know if it's helping Lakes Mead and Powell or, more importantly for the river, the Colorado snowpack.

Roadgeekteen

God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

gonealookin

Quote from: skluth on January 05, 2023, 03:28:15 PM
It's cold. Only 56°F and raining, thanks to the Pineapple Express which continues to soak much of California. Not complaining though. We still need the rain and snow to replenish the reservoirs. Don't know if it's helping Lakes Mead and Powell or, more importantly for the river, the Colorado snowpack.

I'm coming down to La Quinta in a couple weeks to (a) take a break from the snow pictured above and (b) attend the PGA Tour event, so if you could please arrange for better than "Only 56°F and raining" I would much appreciate it.



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