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What's Mother Nature up to at your house?
Meanwhile, in KC
Dry, hot and humid : in the 90's now for a few days with more to come. Send some California rain this a way.
we could use some rain
Not that I really want it to rain while I am home but the wildfires are burning in north east Florida..its tough to even enjoy a full day outside without having your eyes burn from the smoke..
Look twice save a life, motorcycles are everywhere .
Thank you !!
Tornado warnings....
i couldn't believe that we had tornado weather here in the northeast one touched down in springfield mass... holly shit... i am about 60 miles to the canadain border and the ski was looking very scary...but besides those few days fairly average for this time of year.
what a change
Temp was 104 in the high desert of southern California yesturday to a cool 66 today in Santa Rosa, new Mexico ..
Look twice save a life, motorcycles are everywhere .
Thank you !!
whoa
hope you had good AC in the truck...
It is a gorgeous summer day in the Bay Area, unless you like fog. Rumor has it we may actually be able to see the fireworks tonight. This is somewhat unusual. Also ironic, as many cities have canceled their shows due to the economy, but SF's is due to go on as planned.
Why does it not surprise me...
...that SF isn't having financial troubles and will have fireworks?
As we say in our business (and a lot of others,) it's the D-I-N-Ks.
They put a lot of money in the tax coffers.
oh, SF has financial troubles a go go
but also tourism is big biz so it's not just the locals...
Shakedown Street?
We just had a major earthquake (for us anyway). Very scary...!
Yup, here too
First they get us worried about Irene, then they start shaking the ground. Felt it quite well here in western NC.
Earthquake?
Not here in VT! Endless summer continues. I thought GRTD was in the Boston area but he may be South of there... Looks pretty scary for you guys in NC GDean, but the projected Irene path looks like a direct hit on Rhode Island! GAWD help those swamp yankees!
Providence
Has that hurricane barrier, Gonz...that'll take care of the storm surge. Well, at least hopefully better than the NOLA levees took care of Katrina.
We very much need some rain in my area, but at the cost of death and destruction on the coast, I can live with the drought a while longer.
Namesake State, Mary!
I'm in Maryland and all is OK, thank God. I sure hope everyone else is OK too. What a wild ride this has been... I don't know how you guys on the Other Coast handle this stuff on the regular.
Oh and I'll skip the hurricane Oh Great DUDE, if you don't mind. I wanted to go to a local festival so that just isn't gonna work out. I'll take a rain check, if you don't mind.
Hurricane Irene...
...looks ready to dump 10" of rain in Philly, 8" in NYC and God knows what else South and North of there to a width of perhaps 100-150 miles inland.
Batten down the hatches, maties and get the rum out. We're going to have a hurricane party!
Aaargghhhh!! Haul up the jolly roger under those two Hurricane warning flags.
Yo-ho-ho & A Bottle of Rum!!!
Aaarrrgh! We pirates have battened down the hatches and left the ship to moor at Hampton Bay. We started Irene's party yesterday even we be far up in the Green Mountains we're still in for a blow.
Aaarrrgghhhh! We've laid in the provisions and got the genie all gassed up and laid in provisions. Time to haul out the long glass and really get this party rockin'!
Aaarrrggghhhh!!! Avast ye matie! Don't touch that pipe or you be keel-hauled when we get back to the boat. No rest till Monday....
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!
Irene Hype
They WAY over hyped Irene. We are now expecting 30mph winds and two inches of rain! That is in VT. Other places will see larger amounts of rainfall and major beach erosion.
Don't worry 'bout your cousin, unless h/she is a crazy surfer dude.
Hail Hale
There was a major hail storm when I was on the train back from Paris yesterday. Hail the size of golf balls! Was really weird to hear it on the train-was like sitting in a tin box being pelted by ice bombs. Trees were bent over almost in half, and was an interesting little adventure for a few moments!**********************************
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Hurricane Irene goes Tropical, devastates Vermont
Our state took a direct hit in terms of rain. A uniform average of about 7" fell on all parts of the state from South to North yesterday causing towns to flood from Bennington to St. Johnsbury. The state's new emergency management agency in Waterford was evacuated yesterday when Winooski river overflowed it's banks. Many roads and bridges have been washed out. There have been numerous power outages and 1 death reported. There is widespread flooding in all parts of the state. The eye of the storm passed directly overhead of me at 6:10pm yesterday.
This was caused when the storm tracked further westward than was forecast, taking a route up the Hudson Valley and then up the westward spine of the Green Mountains. There was no wind but torrential downpours the entire day. This was absolutely a result of climate change and global warming. Hurricanes and tropical storm do not usually cause such severe rainfall. The last time was 1938 for this kind of damage in the State of Vermont. This was a once a century storm for our area.
Death toll rises to 5 in Vermont
20 towns remain cut off from the outside world in Vermont. The devastation has been staggering. There are no people in the state, no matter how old, who can remember such a flood. Where there are towns connected to roads, bridges and pavement have been washed away. People are staggering around with a glazed look in their eyes. Many have lost everything and extremely few have flood insurance. This has been an extreme tragedy. No one had any real idea that this was possible...
Vermont relief
Let us know what outsiders can do, or offer, to alleviate the disaster in Vermont and elsewhere in New England.
Tonganoxie split
Rain is but a tease in south KC this morning: 72 degree temp is very nice, but we can't seem to squeeze any rain outta them grey clouds. Meanwhile, up north of KC, rain is supposed to fall, Interstate 29 is still closed for the Missouri river flooding (thank you South Dakota!) the lowlands from Omaha south into Kansas and Missouri. Newsman this morning says they are diverting Joplin tornado FEMA funds to help pay for Irene's storm damage back east....
Crazy week
First, it's a horror in Ohio with 3 dead at Chardon High School, then deadly twisters rip through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and possibly in Kentucky or Tennessee today. In Kansas, we had 70 degree temps yesterday, now it's snowin w large flakes, confusing birds, humans and spring flowers alike. !!
beautiful light
some fog across the vision this morning.gorgeous blue sky afternoon yesterday.
pink petal blooms dance the cherry trees.
spring smell on the nose.
rain on the forecast.
sweet in the air.
sadness in the mind.
tsunami remembrance.
The heat is on
Hot town, summer in the cityBack of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head...
(Mark Sebastian 1966)
Hard to believe Lovin' Spoonful sang this song 46 years ago!
Meanwhile it's literally hotter than hell in most of the US this week.
In Kansas, we'll be over 100 with no precipitation in sight.
Keep those prayers and good thoughts coming for our friends in the mountains.
Looking forward to our US Supreme Court decision in a few minutes....
That triple-digit heat wave
Pulling into NC today. With a heaping dose of humidity in tow, I hear. Three words to explain why it's easier to cope with this kind of heat where I live now compared to anywhere else I've ever lived: central air conditioning.
Hotter than a match head, indeed, Ted! Stay cool, folks. Positive vibes to the people dealing with wild fires and anyone trying to survive this oven with just a fan, or less, for relief.
Remember the days
When we used to survive without all the AC? It seems like a different kind of hot these days. Of course, all older people say that. You have to wonder, though, what it would be like if sun spot activity, solar flares and such, suddenly wiped out the power grid for the month of August? Going to the mall wouldn't be an option. Checking your elderly neighbors would become a responsibility. Switching over to a more reliable food supply sans fridge. It all adds up to a degree of misery we'd all rather not experience. Experts say it is more likely than not.
Born on the Sun?
Check out Robert Wuhl in the control room. I don't think he was acting. Robin ad libbed a lot of this movie.
Good point, Anna
And I sure do remember. I think that one of the side-effects of A/C use is that I never get "hardened off" to the heat. I really do think that I'm less heat-tolerant after 6 years in central-air NC than I was when I lived in New England with no A/C and sleeping on the second floor of my 100-yr-old house with plenty of hot-and-humid summer days to go around.
-----------------------------------(-----@
Hot Days
In the blazing sun where
I was observing the grape
vines with their thick, sturdy
and jagged leaves...I gazed
upon them finding that the
beetles had paired up and
were all making love freely
in the light of the sun.
Ahhh Mother Nature and her
subjects of love. The unbridled
passion of beetles on a leaf
to stray cats of the city.
The heat of the day to the
cool of the dark of night is her
nudging of love to sweeten
the journey and make a new
morning to begin the heat again.
It's going to be hot, like the day before.
They'll do it again, like ornaments
or earrings placed to be seen.
The heat boss, the heat!! (More water!)
Poor Ted! The relief we've felt in the New England area -- morning lows in the high 40s -- didn't quite make it to the KC metro area. They had a "low" high temp. of 92 degrees last Monday and now temps. are headed back up to the triple digits. Man, that would just kill me!
This makes more than 10 days of plus 90 degrees for those poor folks in the Plains. We'll be checking to see when you guys nose in under that mark. No end in sight. Other temps. around the country are staggering. Record highs almost everywhere except NE, where beautifully gorgeous endless summer continues unabated. We've been at the beach where water temps. are up this year already. You can now swim in Maine, which was an impossibility before 2000 unless you were a polar bear.
In the rest of the country they are speaking of some really insane temps. like 127 degrees in Las Vegas. On average about 10 degrees more than the usual. Is this year the tipping point as far as Global Warming is concerned? I don't think from a scientific point-of-view a causal relationship can be proven but from a common-sense human and closely watched domestic animal point-of-view the case was closed long before this summer...
Stay cool everybody! Alcoholic beverages are dehydrating. If you drink you should make every other one a 16 oz. water. Hey, if you don't believe me ask any EMT what shows up in the emergency room on hot days other than the elderly.
KC sizzle breaks
Yesterday's high temp. in KC was 88. That breaks a 20 day string of 90+ temps for the KC metro. area. The forecast? Temps. at or above 90 for as far as the eye can see. Good luck staying cool Ted! At least you don't live in Las Vegas or Phoenix or Death Valley.
In N. New England we are sizzling in or around 90 with high humidity. I think it's time for a tube trip down the White River. Unfortunately the water doesn't keep the beer cold!
How do you spell relief?
Good weather reporting, Anna. Yesterday was almost comfortable, with cloud cover and intermittent showers. 2 day rain total was 0.05", so a shower was more like a faint drizzle. Forecast calls for triple digits again starting today. Uggh Like Poncho Bill says, it's crunchy and brown and our municipal water folks are asking for reduced water use, to 3 days a week . Folks with automatic sprinklers haven't made the effort to modify their watering cycles... My granddaughter Willow is visiting from Ft. Collins (no more smoke and fire!), so she's learned to feel the difference between hot and dry to hot, dry and humid. I use the water from her kiddie pool to feed the shrubs and garden veggies.
June's electric bill was over $200. Arrgh! For some reason the hundred or so winfd turbines west of Salina KS haven't been spinning lately to enhance the power coming from the many coal fired plants. Anyone know why the wind turbines are not being used?
Half of all US counties now declared in drought
With the temperature slated to break a 120 year all-time record today in OKC at 114 degrees, fully half the country is declared to be in drought. Prices will increase for food substantially next year, if not in the fall. No relief in sight as of yet.
I have no compunction about running my air-conditioner these days...
Will there be food riots?
If Congress decides to cut food stamp programs it is a distinct possibility. Free food distribution centers will have less and fewer commodities will be available through the Ag. Dept.
This could be a multi-year drought where all of these conditions worsen. Thank you, Republicans, for denying global warming for 30 years and putting us in this mess.
(I used up this space because of a double post)
93 million miles away?
Feels more like 92 million lately. I work every day in greenhouses in the upper midwest where we have had 30+ days above 90 and 4 above 100; hottest summer on record so far and still going strong. the greenhouses we work in all day run easily 15 deg. above the ambient temps. when that fat old sun is a shinin' and if the wind ain't blowin, there's no air moving in them at all. i'm not whining (yet) as i get to enjoy the wonderful benefits of piped lightning when i get home. Somebody much smarter than me figured out how to distrubute it long ago and i get to reap the benefits (as long as i continue to pay for it is my understanding). I'm lucky to have ac and have used it liberally this summer. My father was born and raised on a farm in the midwest where he lived until the age of 8 before the family moved in to town and a house with modern (1946) amenities. Up until he was 8..... NO electricity, no indoor plumbing,etc.,folks, that means not even so much as a fan to blow the hot air around! I ask dad every year how in the hell they did it and he always says,"you got used to it whether you liked it or not and a tub full of cool well water did wonders". compared to that, i've got it pretty damn good. Those thin little lines hanging on those skinny wooden poles are the only things seperating us from "days of yore" ladies and gentlemen. Homeland security? my ass.
"...the wonderful benefits of piped lightning..."
Huh? What does that mean, Slo?
You work in a green house? Jeezum' crow. I walk outside my AC and my gut turns to liquid. I can't imagine toiling in 115 degree heat! I do remember working on a roof one summer in Furnace, Kentucky and even with a headband on there was a continuous stream of sweat rolling into my eyes!
Keep watching that lettuce grow so slow, Slo... And stay hydrated!
it means
electricty, fluff. that's what my dad aways called it. I hear ya brother about the heat effects; it does make me stop and assess my sanity somedays ,but i love the work and the people. it's nice to be outside surrounded by plants. thanks for the advice and hope your leg healed well and you're out and about..............................damn golf courses anyway. by the way, "fluffanutter" is the name my son gave our cat years ago. lol so cool.........so cool
God bless Mother Nature
Well, the humidity is rising and the barometer's is getting low. According to all of the sources, the street looks the best place to go.Because, i believe, tonight, for the very first time, probably around half past ten, and for the first time in history, it's gonna start raining men.
Hallelujah.
New England Preens
We took a trip up to Burke Mtn. and Northern Vermont and the foliage was brilliant and electric. The show Mother Nature puts on these few weeks each year never fails to give me pause to think of beauty. -- All the more this year as they have just announced the tearing down of paradise and putting up of a parking lot.
(Wind farms and resorts to dominate the NE Kingdom of Vermont)
Hurricane Sandy
This is the largest hurricane in history (900 miles) and will flood the NY subway, shred the Atlantic City boardwalk and send storm surges 6-11 feet in the NY-Long Island-CT area. The NYSE is closed,possibly for the week.
Hope the power stays on! Stay safe!
hybrid Sandy a sign of things to come?
Well, we made it... sort of -- 100s of thousands without power, billions in damage, my favorite beach in RI wrecked (thanks for the images Weather Channel!). This was razor close to the perfect storm. A Lunar high tide combining with the onshore winds combined with a straight-line storm with barometric pressure at 940 millibars (a record) pushed a record 13 foot tidal surge into into Battery Park,Manhattan with subways flooding out.
It could have been worse. With 22 foot waves crashing on the lake shore in Chicago and Cleveland I don't know how much more it could have been worse!. This thing is still a pain in the ass with people buried under 26 inches of snow and no power in WV and the storm spreading from Chicago to SC still today with 30-50mph winds.
I think this is a hybrid model that will repeat,not necessarily with the hurricane component unless it is the season, because of global warming. If anything, this has shown me how helpless we are in the face of nature's global warming wallop. This was in an in-your-face-warning.
That looks like a huge storm in the Northwest!
Wow! That huge spiral spinning in rain and snow from San Francisco to Anchorage looks awesome on the radar. The zone of 8-10" of rains runs right up the coast. Hope everybody out there stays dry and warm!
How Cold Is It?
It's cold, damn cold! Now - +1 (low)
Thu - -14
Fri - -16
Sat - -5
Sun - -8
And snowy
And windy
Don't come here! (VT/NH/ME)
(Set the GPS for Cuba)