weather

[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???

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by 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???

I wish... that would be awesome. The most extreme weather I've been in was Hurricane Ike. And yes, I know Ike was nothing compared to Katrina. Like I'd live in a city below sea level in Hurricane Alley lol.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Over the last few years, i have worked door to door and on 2 different winters there were days that hit -40 (-40C = -40F) with a bit of wind, 20mph your face feels it's being pelted with needles, winter's hell sometimes.

JohnDowe.

[DSL]

Originally Posted by 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???

we had that a couple of years ago here the temp dropped 30 degrees in a matter
of minutes! we had a flash freeze 2 inches of ice ontop of 6 inches of snow.
ouch!

[TracyCoxx]

Once it got so cold here, there was frost on the grass!