I think I'll volunteer for the relief efforts. Finding my sunglasses and swim trunks now...

Don't forget to bring a chain-saw too.

CAT 4 Iniki 1992

 

Yesterday: Hot (38°C) ... Today: Hot (38°C) ... Tomorrow: Hot (38°C) ...

I need a drink ...

 

Yesterday: Hot (38°C) ... Today: Hot (38°C) ... Tomorrow: Hot (38°C) ...

I need a drink ...

It's worse than you think.

My daughter started 6th grade. I pick her up at school everyday at 3:00PM.

In prior years, her dismissal was at the gym where there is shade for the parents waiting in line. The "upperclassmen" are dismissed at another location where the parents are to line up in direct sunlight. We must stand there for up to 20 minutes waiting for our kids.

And I have the flu.

 

I think I'll volunteer for the relief efforts. Finding my sunglasses and swim trunks now...

You haven't lived until an errant coconut passes you doing about 90 MPH.

Today here was a beautiful day in the mid 70s F. Took my bike out for a ride.

Ron

 

Clear blue sky!!!!

The last few days it was smoky. Denver is in a valley with weird wind currents caused by the nearby Rocky Mountains. The smoke from a thousand miles to the west was funneling in making for very bad air quality.

I can now see the mountains. Air is clean enough that I am now off for a bicycle ride this afternoon.

 

The smoke from a thousand miles to the west was funneling in making for very bad air quality.

The other day was strange as it was a nice clear day but there was sort of a haze but a haze like way up in the atmosphere, just sort of peculiar. Then watching the news & weather I find out it was smoke all the way from the CA wildfires. Go figure and here I am in NE Ohio. Go figure. Then too, major airlines have had aircraft flame out as a result of volcanic ash traveling thousands of miles. Jet engines have an intense dislike of volcanic ash.

Ron

 

Clear blue sky!!!!

The last few days it was smoky. Denver is in a valley with weird wind currents caused by the nearby Rocky Mountains. The smoke from a thousand miles to the west was funneling in making for very bad air quality.

I can now see the mountains. Air is clean enough that I am now off for a bicycle ride this afternoon.

I just got back from Denver. Those big rain storms helped I'm sure. My Mother in-law live on Albion St. and Martin Luther.

kv

 

Just In:

At least 120,000 people along the Florida Panhandle were ordered to clear out on Tuesday as Historical sized Hurricane Michael rapidly picked up steam in the Gulf of Mexico and closed in with winds of 110 mph and a potential storm surge of 12 feet.
Beach dwellers rushed to board up their homes and sandbag their properties against the fast-moving hurricane, which was expected to blow ashore around midday Wednesday along a relatively lightly populated stretch of coastline.
The speed of the storm — Michael was moving north 12 mph (19 kph) — gave many people a dwindling number of hours to prepare or flee before being caught up in damaging wind and rain.

Max.

 

Just In:

At least 120,000 people along the Florida Panhandle were ordered to clear out on Tuesday as Historical sized Hurricane Michael rapidly picked up steam in the Gulf of Mexico and closed in with winds of 110 mph and a potential storm surge of 12 feet.
Beach dwellers rushed to board up their homes and sandbag their properties against the fast-moving hurricane, which was expected to blow ashore around midday Wednesday along a relatively lightly populated stretch of coastline.
The speed of the storm — Michael was moving north 12 mph (19 kph) — gave many people a dwindling number of hours to prepare or flee before being caught up in damaging wind and rain.

Max.

Thank God, hurricanes move slowly, at sea at least. Otherwise, early avoiding would be very problematic for most vessels. Been there...

 

Just In:

At least 120,000 people along the Florida Panhandle were ordered to clear out on Tuesday as Historical sized Hurricane Michael rapidly picked up steam in the Gulf of Mexico and closed in with winds of 110 mph and a potential storm surge of 12 feet.
Beach dwellers rushed to board up their homes and sandbag their properties against the fast-moving hurricane, which was expected to blow ashore around midday Wednesday along a relatively lightly populated stretch of coastline.
The speed of the storm — Michael was moving north 12 mph (19 kph) — gave many people a dwindling number of hours to prepare or flee before being caught up in damaging wind and rain.

Max.

This'll be the second time in a week that Tallahassee has been rocked by a major Hurricane.

 

A week ago I was grumbling because 30+ centimetres of weather had to be rearranged with a shovel, and then again this morning when a few more needed shifting. But I'll take that over hurricanes. I've always preferred vertical weather to horizontal.

 

A coconut doing 90 MPH is a nightmare. Batten down the hatches on the gulf coast!

Ron

 

Sudden plunge in temperature, this morning just before sunrise it was 9°C, temperature inside the house is 26°C.

 

Sudden plunge in temperature, this morning just before sunrise it was 9°C, temperature inside the house is 26°C.

We haven't had a day < 90°F since July. Still waiting for fall.

 

Getting a little chilly up here in NE Ohio. After an unseasonably run of 80 degree F plus days we are now getting days with 32 degree F mornings. Typically around now we get about mid 60 degree days. Still good days for riding the bike. So we went from unseasonably warm to unseasonably cool in a matter of a few days. Nice today though with sunshine and blue skies.

Ron

 

We've gotten our first snows of the season. About an inch a week ago and about three inches night before last. Overnight temp got down to near 0°F. But I fully expect Indian Summer to kick in sometime in the next four weeks or so and give us a couple very nice weeks of very warm weather.

 

A coconut doing 90 MPH is a nightmare.

Sounds right - but let's see...

Given that:
>90 MPH ≈ 40.23 m/s
>The mass of 'your average coconut' ≈ 1.5kg (Source: 'Produce Hub')

So...
E(k)=
e(rest)*ϒ - e(rest)
= m*c^2/(√(1-(v^2/c^2)) - m*c^2
≈1.5kg*(300*10^6)^2/(√(1-(40.23^2/((300*10^6)^2)) -1.5kg*(300*10^6)^2
(Source: Fundamental math/science)

≈1.2kJ -- Ooooh! That's gotta hurt!

Hard hats anyone?

temperature inside the house is 26°C.

≈79°F?! Uggg! Better you than me!

But to topic -- Round about the first of the month we went from several months' long 'tropical' conditions oppression to snow flurries overnight -- literally! - A most welcome change, IMNSHO!

Best regards
HP

 

We've had about 19 inches of snow so far this month, 13 of it in one dump. The weather is actually supposed to be fairly pleasant for the next few days, which will be nice. It's been pretty stinko since early September. Farmers are desperate to get crops in, but they've already been damaged.

 

40s in DFW

 

The whole summer here in the south west Iceland was nothing but a mixture of spring and autumn. The only upside is that true seasonal autumn has been "kind" so far.

Well at least there weren't/aren't forest fires here. (fingers crossed)