How's The Weather By You?

Yeah, this will be fun..I'm in the same weather situation as TWH, but only slightly better. We are expected to have freezing rain starting tonight, tomorrow morning turning to snow on Monday with up to 5 inches accumulation..that will probably be on top of ice and a high of 10-15 degrees with a wind chill of -11-16 below.

Like TWH, we spent today doing some preparing, filling water jugs for us and the animals in case we lose power, did all the laundry up. Tomorrow I'll fill 5 gallon buckets to flush with, we'll take showers in case we don't get to for a while..yuck...The cats beds have been packed with extra heavy piles of straw and the chickens will stay in their nice warm coop for a few days, and we're going to put a heat lamp in the chicken coop/kitty condo to make sure.

The worst part of this weather for us is the danger of not being able to get in or out of here in case of an emergency.

I am down on my knees thanking my brother again for wrapping all the pipes under the house and around the well pump this fall...hopefully we won't have broken pipes to contend with.

I have one old neighbor up the road from me who is 86 and lives alone. He has a good circle of church people who look out for him and bring him wood, etc. He depends soley on a wood stove for heat, so he will be okay there. He has a nice big stack on his front porch and another big stack in the yard. I hope he doesn't get frozen pipes though. Also, he is on a part of the road that if he can be gotten to in case of an emergency.

TWH..the picture of that building is eerie, and the firefighters that were trying to put it out had frozen suits I saw on the news..This reminded me of the scene from Dr. Zhivago where they were in the castle that was frozen inside.

It sounds like you are getting well prepared..but that propane heater scares me..but, that's just me..only please be very careful with it. I sure wish we were neighbors so I could help with those horses. Having a barn full of pent up hayburners is no fun. There is the danger of injuries from being silly when they are finally let out.

Everyone keep your fingers crossed for those of us that will be caught in this storm, that we don't lose power, don't have any major emergencies, and this crap doesn't linger on.
 

Diwundrin said:
It's just not hotter now, I don't care what the figures and 'the science' tell us. People in the Hunter Valley used to throw mosquito nets over the clothes lines and sleep on the ground in heatwaves to get out of their hotbox houses which all had corrugated iron roofs and air-cons and insulation weren't invented yet.

Technology has lulled us into thinking things haven't been so bad lately but are suddenly getting worse. They're really not. There's just more media with ever greater means to fill our heads with it.
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Pretty much my view as well. The cubicle slaves spend their days in temperature-controlled environments, drive to and from work in air-conditioned vehicles and reside in air-conditioned homes. The same applies to winter. So it isn't really surprising that any small blip on the charts is seen as the Second Coming.

Add in the passive-aggressive weather reports in the media and you have the Four Horsemen making a guest appearance as well.
 
They certainly got todays temp wrong it was supposed to be 26c and is now 30.4c grrr

Here i am complaining about some heat and you are suffering extreme cold where you live OG, sounds like you have everything down pat , there is a lot to think about with your freezing weather, good luck OG hope all goes well.
 
The other figure was probably taken by a local, possibly somewhere not in the shade.
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Possibly read on the ute dashboard. I threw out the little thermometer I had in a Bronze coloured Corolla many years ago, I didn't want to know when it was 54C in that damned car when I opened the door the blast of hot air was a good enough hint.
I've only ever bought white ones since, they seem not to get as hot somehow, you know, like the red ones go faster.
 
There are some places on earth where the heat hits you as if coming straight from a furnace. Three places where I have felt this kind of extreme dry heat are The Pilbara, in W Australia, Death Valley in America and The Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Whether or not the temperature was a record or not (and in our case it wasn't) living in those conditions is pretty unimaginable.

For the record,

Record Temperatures
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above. Death Valley holds the record for the hottest place on earth.
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Glad I wasn't there in 1913.
 
Warrigal said:
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For the record,
Record Temperatures
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above. Death Valley holds the record for the hottest place on earth.
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Glad I wasn't there in 1913.
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1913?

I wonder what the carbon dioxide level was then ...... :cool:
 
People have handled the Pilbara, and most of the hard country out there for thousands of years without anything more than a piece of bark for shade.

I definitely watch too many docos. Saw one recently about the salt cutters of can't remember where. But where they work the temp. hovers around 50C most of the day. The producers ran an experiment getting a very fit and healthy young 'Western' man to gear up with the stick on monitors for heart rate, core body temp. BP etc and likewise one of the regular workers.
Then they went to work. Chopping blocks of salt. carrying them, chipping them into uniform size and shape to load on the camels etc.

The Western guy's readings headed skywards after a few minutes and he was withdrawn to the shade in 10. The half starved looking regulars without an apparent muscle between them thought it was the best fun they'd had in ages and kept going their usual few more hours.
Their man's readings hardly altered the whole time.

There are two possible ways to view this, either only the members of that particular ethnic group who can handle the heat ever take on the work, or the whole lot of them have adapted, genetically (?) to the hot conditions.

Humans are very adaptable creatures, a 2degree rise in average temperatures may affect some crops, may even affect ocean levels but that some people have the idea that they will expire from the increased heat is laughable.
 
Humans are very adaptable creatures, a 2degree rise in average temperatures may affect some crops, may even affect ocean levels but that some people have the idea that they will expire from the increased heat is laughable.
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That's not how evolution works. Humans (as all species) have variations and the external conditions select the best adapted by allowing them to live long enough to breed. The others die very early. The individuals don't adapt but the better adapted pass on their favourable genes and as a result the population gradually adapts to the conditions.

Some people will likely die from increased heat and other effects of global warming. Old people don't count because they aren't going to breed any more. In evolutionary terms, we are expendable.
 
Warrigal said:
You'll be amused to know that this figured is disputed as being an inaccurate reading, but what the heck!
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A lot of what passes for climate "records" amuses me Warrigal. Are you sure that there has not been a higher temperature reading in Death Valley in the 100 years since 1913 while anthropogenic and animal emissions have soared? :confused: ;)
 
Diwundrin said:
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.... a 2degree rise in average temperatures may affect some crops .....
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Will make 'em grow better for sure. Will make more land area available for crops. Coupled with increased CO2 in the air, crops will produce more AND with less water. The Romans and Vikings sure made the best of it.

Altogether a good thing? :)
 
Enough about high temperatures, were freezing here. Raining and just above freezing now but expected to turn to snow soon and the the temperature will plunge down to near zero. Much worse even for those north of us.Wind chills in some areas will be as much as 40 or 50 below zero. :winter:

Put another log on the fire OG it's coming your way.

Where's Al Gore and his Glow Bull warming when we need him?
 
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We have temps this low or lower at times but this year they came at least a month earlier. The big difference is they are lasting longer. Usually if we get a few inches of snow it will be gone in a day or two. This year the low temperatures are hanging on for weeks. It's that Glow Bull warming I tell ya. :winter1:
 
I sent a link containing some pictures of cold areas to a friend in Maine .... this is his reply:

Thanks there were many of those I can relate to with sympathy. The concern about flooding of the rivers is becoming real here.. Ice on the big rivers is really getting thick and when it comes time for it to go it can cause severe ice jams and then flooding……
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We will be damn hot tomorrow but predicted to cool down to 27s and 26s (Celsius) for the rest of the week. Pleasant, below average.
 
I hope everyone in the Freeze Zone is OK and toasty warm. We had about 30 to 40 cm of snow but today the sun is shining and it is a lot warmer. Newfoundland is getting it now and their main generating station caught on fire so lots and lots of people without power and freezing weather. I'm considering myself lucky indeed.
 
Hope your eye can wait until you see the doc TWH! It's 6 degrees F here and still light snow since the night before last. Our neighbor cleared our sidewalk and walkway with his snowblower, and that area will need a bit of shoveling again today. No sun around to melt anything.
 
Cold but sunny today. Making several trips to the curb today for garbage and recycling - about a 50' walk - so I'll have to dress in my heavyweight survival gear, electric socks, high-tech thermal underwear, feed the Huskies and fill up the St.Bernard's whiskey flask.
 
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