weather

[DSL]

Well i am starting this topic because if anyone likes to chat about the weather. heat,cold,
bad weather,good weather,if you love foliage pics please post them here.

its that time of year over here its a bit chilly here 56 outside now cloudy
no snow yet but as we say in new england wait a minute! it will change.
i liive in south eastern Ma., area best known for its nor-easters! i will keep
posted on any major events.
no foliage yet that should change tho in a few weeks
any hurricans any twisters would like to hear from you.

[Jenae LaTorque]

You have got to be kidding us. Talking about the weather is something most folks do when they ain't got nothing else to say.

And why in hell would anybody else be interested in what the normal daily weather is like where you are?

[TracyCoxx]

Sigh... it's still the mid 80s here. I want cold weather now! I love it when the 1st real cold front of the fall comes through. It looks very menacing. Like a UFO from Independence Day moving in and shoving other clouds out of the way. Suddenly you hear wind, and dust gets kicked up and then it blows past you. Then it's suddenly 20 degrees cooler.

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Sigh... it's still the mid 80s here. I want cold weather now! I love it when the 1st real cold front of the fall comes through. It looks very menacing. Like a UFO from Independence Day moving in and shoving other clouds out of the way. Suddenly you hear wind, and dust gets kicked up and then it blows past you. Then it's suddenly 20 degrees cooler.

Where is this at?

[TracyCoxx]

In Texas... bleah. Those pictures aren't from Texas, but that's what that first cold front of the fall looks like.

[twistedone]

I remember the Noreasters, horizontal rain and snow. LOL

Used to live on the Cape, got a good hammering there.

Originally Posted by DSL

Well i am starting this topic because if anyone likes to chat about the weather. heat,cold,
bad weather,good weather,if you love foliage pics please post them here.

its that time of year over here its a bit chilly here 56 outside now cloudy
no snow yet but as we say in new england wait a minute! it will change.
i liive in south eastern Ma., area best known for its nor-easters! i will keep
posted on any major events.
no foliage yet that should change tho in a few weeks
any hurricans any twisters would like to hear from you.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I live in Montreal PQ Canada and in '98 we had an ice storm, the likes of which was never seen before and since, trees had limbs broken, not small ones but 5" - 6" diameter limbs, electric towers were destroyed, in some parts of Montreal and the suburbs power was out for about 2 weeks, in Canada we ARE used to winter but this was something else.

JohnDowe.

[DSL]

Have you guys even been in a sleet storm with winds blowing at 60 MPH
feels like freakin sandpaper on your skin. stings too and temps at 30 degrees 2feet of snow under your feet.

[Jenae LaTorque]

Oh I see, we want to talk about weather extremes. I worked one winter on the North Slope of Alaska. The scale of the thermometer on the Cookie Shack

went down to 30 degrees farenheit below zero and I didn't see no color on it from the time I got there in November untill the end of March when it finally

rose to 30 below. It is so cold there that it is considered a desert in the wintertime as there is no availible moisture; it has all frozen and fallen to the

ground. If the wind is blowing even a little bit, then any exposed skin will suffer frostbite in a short time. A thirty mph wind will do it in under a minute. Your breath freezes and sticks to your facemask, but you learn to leave it there as it is warmer than the air around you. Now I live in Wyoming where at

time the winter gets bad, but the thing on the North Slope is that it is damn cold all the time, every day, or should I say all night as where I was we didn't

see the sun there until April. 24 hours a day of dark. But, my god, the Northern Lights were beautiful. And when you are that far north, they are not on

the horizon, they are over head and span the heavens. I had seen pictures and film of them before, but they didn't begin to compare with actually

standing under the Northern Lights.

[Jenae LaTorque]

So Tracy, have you ever experianced a true blue norther like James Michener describes in his book Texas; one where the temperature drops 60 degrees in a matter of a few hours???

[DSL]

Well just wondering what type of season you like
me i like fall is the best for me not too hot not too
cold just in between. colorful leaves changing
watching them fall like snow on the ground, and late fall too
hunting season cold fresh air where you can see the frost coming from your
mouth.

We had a severe thunderstorm come thru this morning a heavy band of
rain an inch per hour in some areas thunder lighting we even lost power
in a lot of counties too for a couple of hours.and some counties are still
without power here we got ours back this afternoon
it was sort of a late season thunderstorm for us winds blowing up to
50 MPH.

We don't get as many tornades as say Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas. But things can get interesting. In 2002, we had a pretty bad tornado that caused a lot of damage through central Indiana. I remember it well. My "ex" and I lived in Hendricks county (near I-70 see map) and I was at home that day working on my computer--our house was on a hill and my office windows faced South. While we were not directly hit, I had a great "view" as the storm moved in. Solid black--it looked like "smoke" over the trees. She worked as a nurse at an Indianapolis hospital and they had to take patients into the halls as the tornado struck downtown. A few of our large buildings had windows blown out and some of our campus buildings were hit as well and students in the dorms were evacuated.

Here is a link to pictures of the damage and a map of its path:

http://tkerby.com/tornado2002/gallery.html

These are not that tornado but are representative of what we get here. The black sky is from July 8, 2003 another day to remember. One touched down near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Thought I'd share some pictures of Brown County in Southern Indiana. This time of year it is a lot of fun to visit and the scenery is beautiful. Indiana University is right next door in Bloomington and everything is just an hours drive from Indy. Great places to ride or drive. Or just relax!

http://www.motorcycleroads.com/route.../IN/IN_2.shtml

[Tread]

It's getting colder, soon I have to scratch ice.

[DSL]

Well our weather is rapidly deteriorating our first nor-easter of the season
we are under a winter storm warning and a blizzard warning! as well.
temps are 30 outside winds are 15 to 20 mph it has just started coming down now at the rate of 2 inches per hour at times 3 inches per hour. winds will
gust to 60 mph! leaving a windchill of 20 below zero!! i am fro southern Massachusetts the Epic Center of this block buster blizzard.
snowfall totals will be in the range of 15 to 25 inches!! isolated spots will
see over 30 inches! this will be the storm that will go down in the record books!. but still will not beat the blizzard of 1978 we got nailed with 38 inches that year nearly 4 feet.

[DSL]

Here is a shot i took from our winter wonderland nere our area.afternmath of our blizzard we got hit with 25 inches of snow we are still digging out.
in our area 14,000 people lost power during the storm winds were gusting to near 70 MPH.