The Weather is Crazy

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:27 pm

Just your typical early February severe thunderstorms here in the Chicago area....

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:29 pm

Chicat wrote:Just your typical early February severe thunderstorms here in the Chicago area....

keep telling yourself "It's good for the lawn."

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:34 pm

azgreg wrote:
Chicat wrote:Just your typical early February severe thunderstorms here in the Chicago area....
keep telling yourself "It's good for the lawn."

If this keeps up I'll be mowing it with a machete by Easter.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:24 pm

Like 50 for a high in Tucson today, might flirt with the low 20s tonight.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:57 pm

Flash flood warning in central Illinois.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:06 am

Holy shit, I've never heard about this:

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:16 am

23 degrees in Tucson currently

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:20 am

scumdevils86 wrote:23 degrees in Tucson currently

Cold, but still safe for corn muters.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:56 am

Chicat wrote:Holy shit, I've never heard about this:

Tweet removed. What was it?

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:11 am

scumdevils86 wrote:23 degrees in Tucson currently

Not below 28.5 on campus at PAS and 30 at FM up by UMC. 28 at TIA.

Cold but not 23.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:18 am

35° in Phoenix this morning. A bit chilly for the start of the Pro-Am out at TPC Scottsdale.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:34 am

azgreg wrote:
Chicat wrote:Holy shit, I've never heard about this:

Tweet removed. What was it?

1972 Iran Blizzard. Deadliest in recorded history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Iran_blizzard" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:45 am

Chicat wrote:
azgreg wrote:
Chicat wrote:Holy shit, I've never heard about this:

Tweet removed. What was it?
1972 Iran Blizzard. Deadliest in recorded history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Iran_blizzard" target="_blank

Almost biblical.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:19 am

Put my tomato plants in yesterday.

This morning had to scrape ice off the windshield.

Only got up to 53 yesterday.

Last year I don't think I turned my heater on at all in February.

Poor tomato plants.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:23 am

wyo-cat wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:23 degrees in Tucson currently
Not below 28.5 on campus at PAS and 30 at FM up by UMC. 28 at TIA.

Cold but not 23.

every weather station within 4 miles of me at 615 this morning registered between 22 and 25 degrees. but okay.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:30 am

scumdevils86 wrote:
wyo-cat wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:23 degrees in Tucson currently
Not below 28.5 on campus at PAS and 30 at FM up by UMC. 28 at TIA.

Cold but not 23.
every weather station within 4 miles of me at 615 this morning registered between 22 and 25 degrees. but okay.

I'm sure those are much more accurate than the Atmosheric Studies weather station at PAS. Which shows 28.5

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/graphs/dailyE/" target="_blank

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:31 am

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:32 am

you can rely on more than 1 weather station in 1 specific part of town ya know. some people don't live in the atmo building on campus.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:40 am

so it barely hit 50 yesterday in Tucson.

by next wed/thurs the highs are going to be hitting 85 potentially. pool weather is back.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:27 am

scumdevils86 wrote:you can rely on more than 1 weather station in 1 specific part of town ya know. some people don't live in the atmo building on campus.

I have a rain gauge in my backyard, and received 1.25" last Sunday. That national weather service at the Santa Maria airport received 0.80", which is only a mile or so away.

Tucson has the concrete effect for heat in town, so I imagine it must do something with the cold too.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:34 am

yeah the university is a lot more built up with asphalt and concrete and larger buildings compared to where i live which is only about 4 miles from campus. plus there's about a difference of 400 feet in elevation.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:25 pm

Gotta love the depths of winter. For the last 4 months I've been hearing how El Niño will give the southwest an abnormally cold and wet winter. Uh huh.

15+ degrees above average and shattering records

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:44 am

gonna be hot hot hot in 2/3rds of my home

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:35 am

I for one am tired of r el Nino talk and wish they would just say they were wrong. Central coast is below average for rain this season.

However we are looking at record heat today so the view will be tremendous on campus.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:05 am

Unreal, gonna be pushing mid 90s by Tuesday. 20 degrees above average. Normal high temp for February in Tucson averages out at 68 degrees. The way the month is shaping up it'll be more like 83. By far the warmest February ever seen in Arizona I imagine.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:49 am

In Tucson in February the temperature on average gets above 80 two or three times. This month it'll be over 20 times per the forecast and what has already been recorded.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:34 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:Gotta love the depths of winter. For the last 4 months I've been hearing how El Niño will give the southwest an abnormally cold and wet winter. Uh huh.

15+ degrees above average and shattering records

I was believing it all in mid-late Dec. it was down right chilly. But the last couple of weeks, it's been really warm. I keep telling myself that there will be one more cold snap, but I'm losing confidence in that every time I see mid to high 80's in the forecast.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:35 pm

Yep, staying consistently shitty...

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:05 am

I honestly don't remember weather this bad. Invariably there's a brief period of time in late January or February most years where it gets warm for a couple of days but then it reverts back to normal. But nope, for the last 2 plus weeks it's been almost 20 degrees above average with no rain and the forecast into mid March is exactly the same. Strangest thing I have ever seen in 30 years here.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:58 am

We've got 60 degree temps brought in on 60 mph winds. It's HOWLING outside. I want to sit out and feel some sunshine but I'm afraid I'll get blown off my deck.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:04 pm

Local weather guys have quit talking about El Nino for once.

February has fizzled out, back to the drought days, or even worse. Only 1/2" at my house this month, with no more rain in the forecast this month.

However, as with the last 3 prior drought years, the weather has been fantastic.

If it's not going to rain, might as well be nice.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:10 pm

Chicat wrote:We've got 60 degree temps brought in on 60 mph winds. It's HOWLING outside. I want to sit out and feel some sunshine but I'm afraid I'll get blown off my deck.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:59 pm

That's right by my wife's office. She was just telling me about that.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:06 pm

We have, normally dormant, Bermuda grass greening up this week on campus. The lows the last couple of days have been 54 and 57. Unheard of for this time of year.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:28 pm

I'm supposed to fly out to the University of Oregon tomorrow morning to give a lecture on Thursday. Blizzard starts at 6 AM. How much you want to bet American Airlines doesn't cancel the flight until after they get everybody to the airport sitting at the gate? I have no idea why they don't just cancel flights a couple hours beforehand. I have to try because it would be bad form on my part if the flight somehow leaves without me.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:15 pm

Longhorned wrote:I'm supposed to fly out to the University of Oregon tomorrow morning to give a lecture on Thursday. Blizzard starts at 6 AM. How much you want to bet American Airlines doesn't cancel the flight until after they get everybody to the airport sitting at the gate? I have no idea why they don't just cancel flights a couple hours beforehand. I have to try because it would be bad form on my part if the flight somehow leaves without me.

They don't purposely wait to make things as inconvenient as possible. Weather delays and cancellations can change rapidly and aren't really controlled by..well...people.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:34 am

You don't know jackshit about the airline industry.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:52 am

Merkin wrote:You don't know jackshit about the airline industry.

You don't have to to know that about weather delays. Just is common sense.

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:59 am

Longhorned wrote:How much you want to bet American Airlines doesn't cancel the flight until after they get everybody to the airport sitting at the gate?

as someone who travels a fair amount as well, this bugs the living hell out of me as well -- also applies to delays

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:05 am

The problem is that if they preemptively cancel a bunch of flights and the storm shifts slightly and produces nothing, then they just lost a bunch of money and pissed off a bunch of people. If they wait too long and strand a bunch of people, same thing. So they have to walk a fine line.

Meanwhile, we're under a blizzard warning, and it is fucking nasty outside. Predicting 12+" at my house . . . . and that's just for my wife! (ba-dum chhh)

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:10 am

ASUHATER! wrote:
Merkin wrote:You don't know jackshit about the airline industry.
You don't have to to know that about weather delays. Just is common sense.

You don't know jackshit about posts referring to old threads at the TOS.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:42 am

Chicat wrote:The problem is that if they preemptively cancel a bunch of flights and the storm shifts slightly and produces nothing, then they just lost a bunch of money and pissed off a bunch of people. If they wait too long and strand a bunch of people, same thing. So they have to walk a fine line.

Meanwhile, we're under a blizzard warning, and it is fucking nasty outside. Predicting 12+" at my house . . . . and that's just for my wife! (ba-dum chhh)

Exactly. So hard to know what to do.

And lulz.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:43 am

Chicat wrote:The problem is that if they preemptively cancel a bunch of flights and the storm shifts slightly and produces nothing, then they just lost a bunch of money and pissed off a bunch of people. If they wait too long and strand a bunch of people, same thing. So they have to walk a fine line.

Meanwhile, we're under a blizzard warning, and it is fucking nasty outside. Predicting 12+" at my house . . . . and that's just for my wife! (ba-dum chhh)

I decided to test this theory, and let's just say the pessimists like 97cats and me are right, and ASUHATER is as full of shit as American Airlines.

We had near-blizzard conditions and still showed "on time" status an hour before departure. I cancelled my cab and, from my couch at home, I called and talked to an agent, who confirmed that the flight was on time and that I should go to the airport because the plane for my flight out of Champaign was in the air arriving on time from Chicago, which was also indicated online. So I called an agent I know at the airport, who told me that we had no other plane available than the one coming from Chicago, but that he didn't think the flight from Chicago was actually in the air. 50 minutes before my departure time, the flight from Chicago was cancelled, but they continued to show an on-time departure for my plane-less flight. I didn't fall for it and stayed on my couch rather than driving to the airport during a white-out.

Sure enough, they waited until departure time to announce the cancelation of my flight. I don't know how many of my fellow passengers are stranded at the terminal in these gawd-awful conditions while I luxuriate at home bathing in warm donkey milk.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:47 am

There's a lot to get angry about with airlines, but the only two things that you should never be angry or upset about are weather delays and cancellations (airline can't change the weather and it has nothing to do with them) and maintenance delays or cancellations (it's about the safety of people on the plane...why would them assuring your safety bother you?)

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:50 am

Nah, I think there's more than a little dicking around with us all when it comes to weather-related cancellations.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:10 am

I know Merkin is convinced El Niño was a hoax this year, but here in the Chicago area we had our warmest winter in a decade; eight degrees warmer than last year and with 60% less snow.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:08 am

Set a record yesterday 88 at 4pm, old record 81.

February, one of our wettest months, had less than 1" total.

One thing I learned over the years, don't change your plans based on long term forecasts but a series of storms could be coming.

the real dill · Post by **the real dill** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:19 pm

They are predicting 10-12 inches tomorrow and Wednesday for Houston, mixed with hail and tornadoes. Should be an interesting couple days.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:49 am

Much breeze. So wind. Very muggerfletching gale.

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:37 pm

Very disappointed in the lack of rain in the valley. Was looking forward to the "El Nino" predictions.

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