OT: Weather (just weather)

[spndnchz]

Should be smoke here in a few days. Nothing like fire though. 

[Night Train]

50's and 60's F here in WNY. Snowblower still has 3/4ths of a tank. Nothing burger this winter.

[matter2003]

  On 3/1/2024 at 8:20 PM, Night Train said:

50's and 60's F here in WNY. Snowblower still has 3/4ths of a tank. Nothing burger this winter.

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2 weeks of cold with a week of snow giving us 50 inches, and another 10 scattered over the rest of winter. Warmest winter on record.

[Night Train]

Cleared 70 F today, North of Buffalo. Sunny and enjoying a cigar outside on the deck. 

[Night Train]

Weather north of Buffalo continues to be great, IMO. Planted all my flowers in pots on the deck. 

[Wyldnwoody44]

Mowed 5 acres yesterday, zero turn is nice but my hill is still too steep for it, so I kept sliding down the hill ruining my nice lines. Can't believe how much it grew while I was away 

[Doohicksie]

  On 5/7/2024 at 11:15 AM, Wyldnwoody44 said:

Mowed 5 acres yesterday, zero turn is nice but my hill is still too steep for it, so I kept sliding down the hill ruining my nice lines. Can't believe how much it grew while I was away 

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Designate the sloped portion of your yard a wildflower area and let it be 😉

[Wyldnwoody44]

  On 5/7/2024 at 11:37 AM, Doohickie said:

Designate the sloped portion of your yard a wildflower area and let it be 😉

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I've thought of that, but I live on top of a hill, so that's the whole yard lol. Plus good wildflower seed is not cheap 😭😭 

If I cut sideways along the hill it's a little better, but I'm pushing fate a little here 

[Doohicksie]

  On 5/7/2024 at 12:05 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said:

sideways along the hill it's a little better, but I'm pushing fate a little here 

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https://www.ventrac.com/solutions/slope

You know you want it  😉

[Wyldnwoody44]

  On 5/7/2024 at 12:19 PM, Doohickie said:

https://www.ventrac.com/solutions/slope

You know you want it  😉

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26k ouchhh... It is pretty cool, I was also looking at Altoz TRX with the triangular tracks in place of tires that also would work well, that's around 23k. That would allow me to attach a plow and salt spreader on back and use it all year for plowing (assuming winter comes back ever) either way I would have to finance. 

[Doohicksie]

The wind is really blowing so I pulled up the weather map.  There's a tornado about 20 miles north of my son's place.  That's far enough away that I'm not too worried, but man people just south of the Red River are having a bad time tonight.  I'm at the blue dot, my son lives in Plano.  Interesting that McKinney is in a bigger font than Plano since Plano has almost 3x the population.  (Plano, TX, has more people than Buffalo, NY.)

[Pimlach]

 

[Big Guava]

  On 5/26/2024 at 4:31 AM, Doohickie said:

The wind is really blowing so I pulled up the weather map.  There's a tornado about 20 miles north of my son's place.  That's far enough away that I'm not too worried, but man people just south of the Red River are having a bad time tonight.  I'm at the blue dot, my son lives in Plano.  Interesting that McKinney is in a bigger font than Plano since Plano has almost 3x the population.  (Plano, TX, has more people than Buffalo, NY.)

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That's because most of Buffalo's true population lives in the suburbs

[Doohicksie]

  On 5/27/2024 at 6:11 PM, Big Guava said:

That's because most of Buffalo's true population lives in the suburbs

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No, not really.  If you take just Collin County, the county where Plano is (which does not include Dallas) there is a population of 1.159 million.  In the Buffalo Metropolitan Area, which includes Erie and Niagara Counties, the population is only 1.137 million.

It's hard to understand what a population juggernaut the Dallas-Fort Worth region is.  It has suburbs that are bigger than "big cities".

Edited May 28, 2024 by Doohickie

[Doohicksie]

Definition of a cold front: Over the last 3 miles of my commute, the temperature dropped from 81 to 64. It's raining pretty good but I got into the office before the downpour.

[Big Guava]

  On 5/28/2024 at 3:02 AM, Doohickie said:

No, not really.  If you take just Collin County, the county where Plano is (which does not include Dallas) there is a population of 1.159 million.  In the Buffalo Metropolitan Area, which includes Erie and Niagara Counties, the population is only 1.137 million.

It's hard to understand what a population juggernaut the Dallas-Fort Worth region is.  It has suburbs that are bigger than "big cities".

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So does California, but the craziest place for that is countries like India and China where there are cities most people have never heard of that have 5-6 million people.

[Doohicksie]

We had a pretty good thunderstorm with strong winds (~50 mph) this afternoon.  Lost power for almost an hour (although... oddly, I got a text from the power company saying "There is an outage near you, we are working to fix it" about 10 seconds before the power went out).

The thunder is rumbling again so I checked the radar and it looks like just about the same size of front coming through.  Two in one day.  Unusual.

Edit:  On the plus side, a laid down some sod last week.  All this rain is good for it.  And the temperature is 66°F, very cool for late May.  It's typically highs in the 90s and lows in the mid-to-high 70s.  A few days ago it was 85°F at this time of night.

Edited May 31, 2024 by Doohickie

[Wyldnwoody44]

  On 5/28/2024 at 3:36 PM, Big Guava said:

So does California, but the craziest place for that is countries like India and China where there are cities most people have never heard of that have 5-6 million people.

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And these places suck.... Because large groups of people suck 😜

[steveoath]

Toasty here. Which means we have about 3 weeks of summer left before it pisses down for the rest of the year. 

[French Collection]

  On 6/1/2024 at 12:45 PM, steveoath said:

Toasty here. Which means we have about 3 weeks of summer left before it pisses down for the rest of the year. 

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Heading for the UK next year, first two weeks of May. What should I expect for weather?

[Big Guava]

  On 6/1/2024 at 1:34 PM, French Collection said:

Heading for the UK next year, first two weeks of May. What should I expect for weather?

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Cool and rainy,and that's the good time of the year.

I mean the average summer high temp for July is 73 in the warm places like London...if you are in Ireland or Scotland, likely mid to low 60s for highs.

[Taro T]

  On 6/2/2024 at 12:32 AM, Big Guava said:

Cool and rainy,and that's the good time of the year.

I mean the average summer high temp for July is 73 in the warm places like London...if you are in Ireland or Scotland, likely mid to low 60s for highs.

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Which points out just how important bodies of water and currents are to climate.  NYC and Rome are essentially at the same latitude.  London and mid-Labrador are at the same latitiudes.  By rights, it should be even colder in the British Isles than it is; especially in the winter.

[French Collection]

  On 6/2/2024 at 1:38 AM, Taro T said:

Which points out just how important bodies of water and currents are to climate.  NYC and Rome are essentially at the same latitude.  London and mid-Labrador are at the same latitiudes.  By rights, it should be even colder in the British Isles than it is; especially in the winter.

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Labrador doesn’t get any warm currents. I have been to Newfoundland a few times but never when they are getting icebergs that come down from the Labrador Sea. That is something I would like to see. Northern Norway has milder winters than northern Ontario even though they are near the Arctic Circle and I live south of the 49th parallel.

[PromoTheRobot]

Today was a nice day.

[Taro T]

  On 6/2/2024 at 2:02 AM, French Collection said:

Labrador doesn’t get any warm currents. I have been to Newfoundland a few times but never when they are getting icebergs that come down from the Labrador Sea. That is something I would like to see. Northern Norway has milder winters than northern Ontario even though they are near the Arctic Circle and I live south of the 49th parallel.

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(Pretty sure you're agreeing, but had already written the reply before twigging onto that; so will post it anyhow.)  That's kind of the point.  The Gulf Stream keeps London from becoming a winter wonderland starting in early October.