What is going on with the weather?

I'd be interested in determining how reports of global warming and extreme weather change people's perceptions of the weather.

So, the "once in five hundred years" flooding that we got around here fifteen years ago seems to be close to happening again, with a couple tornadoes around the state thrown in.

Is the weather completely fucked where you are?

Yes, but not so violently fucked as that. We're stuck in la Nina mode and it is still early April weather in mid-June.

The big thing to remember about climate change is that as the atmosphere gains heat it gains energy. Weather has always been changeable. Now it will change more rapidly and sometimes more violently. Pressure and temperature gradients will be steeper. This speeds things up and makes the collisions more energetic.

My dad's workplace is in the voluntary evacuation zone and my regular bar is right on the edge! I might need a canoe to go drink beers soon.

this lower-than-usual gulfstream shit is happening again i think. europe is a lot cloudier than i thought it would be.

it's pretty fucked. tornadoes, floods, thunderstorms, etc.

http://www.chippewa.com/content/articles/2008/06/12/news/doc48514561a47c5051970390.jpghttp://www.dot.state.wi.us/travel/images/flood.jpg

lol 'summer'

so nice out today -- sunny with a quick breeze and low humidity :)

okay I know I laughed last week but this isn't funny anymore

British Summer = some serious bullshit

September will be the hot this year. So they say.

I CAN'T STAND IT THIS HOT!!! (this will be a short thread,timewise, no doubt)

2 years and 1 day ago...

I don't go on those threads cos I don't want to be unnecessarily rude to pussies.

somehow the glastonbury model now applies to the whole country (but obv glasto weather was good this time)

xpost is this you not on one of those threads?

It's not hot enough.
-- More Tongue Feldman (noodle vague), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:59 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

lol haha okay sometimes I do that. It's NOT hot enough.

this lower-than-usual gulfstream shit is happening again i think. europe is a lot cloudier than i thought it would be.

absolutely.
and notice how the bbc weather people aren't admitting it - its like they are afraid to admit it, given that it will depress everyone.
but its so obvious given the steady stream of low pressure weather fronts that come up from the SW and just sit there giving us the constant cloud/rain.
all of which means i'm sat in my home office with t-shirt/long sleeve t-shirt, and a bloody fleece in july.

I've really enjoyed the summer weather thus far, it's back to normal.

I do not understand this concept of "enjoying summer weather," but then again where I live it's like a sauna 24/7 in July

Sorry dudes

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/PodWeather.jpg

Fuck BBC for 'Serbia And Montenegro' tho.

i'm not interested in anything above 28C

Fuck BBC for 'Serbia And Montenegro' tho.

-- G00blar, Friday, July 18, 2008 3:38 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
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http://www.lscg.org/content/images/montenegro-independent-lscg.jpg

are you implying that the BBC is suggesting it isnt

I do not understand this concept of "enjoying summer weather," but then again where I live it's like a sauna 24/7 in July

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 18, 2008 1:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

fag

the weather icon for tomorrow has a cactus in front of the sun :(

xposts I'm implying that the BBC--the BBC!--should know that Montenegro gained its independence from Serbia more than two years ago. 'Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro' makes as much sense as saying 'Sarajevo, Yugoslavia'.

I read it as a 3 item list because Podgorica is part of Montenegro.

This is why I teach my students to put a comma after every item in a list, even if there is an 'and'.

Anyway, yeah, 'Serbia and Montenegro' was the name of a country until May of 2006, when Montenegro gained its independence. They are now, thankfully, two separate sovereign nations.

email the beeb

They probably only have one weather senser between them, still.

Hot and sunny by midweek, at least across the south. Still looks unsettled in the north.

more like it.

I'm down in Gloucestershire on Wednesday for some old fashioned hay cutting, unless it's raining. anyone down in that area? weather watch?

I'm really getting soaked by all those heavy showers BBC Weather predicted for London today.

I ought to go for a walk or something.

is it gonna rain in this bitch or what is the deal?

It's fucking boiling out there, I'm pretty good with heat usually but I was struggling a bit out there at lunch. Wearing jeans today was a mistake.

When weathers this glorious it always reminds me of playing Outrun or Toobin in the old arcades. mm good times indeed

Wearing jeans today was a mistake

i haven't even been able to look at jeans for a few days now. when i was changing to go out on sat night i was going to wear a pair of jeans but couldn't face putting them on. chinos are wonderful things in this weather

I got over my hangover by spending eight hours lying on the heath yesterday, it was glorious.

This weather sucks.

I am in Oxfordshire five miles from the Gloucestershire border, and today was roasting but grey until 5:45, when there was 40 minutes of torrential rain and thunderstorms. It has now returned to being roasting and grey. PLEASE GET COLDER NOW please please please.

I have a week's worth of leave which needs using and I have been typing very northerly places into the BBC website's world weather section and mostly being disappointed that Sweden and Finland are also above 25 degrees.

wow this is some rain

erm correction, this is some 'hail'

is it really only 2 weeks ago it was 30C? we're not getting a week of mid 20s sun now huh

The current weather has been laid on specially to commemorate one year of hot chart action for "Umbrella."

i ain't complaining yet though, still too pathetically grateful that the hideous torrents i woke up to had stopped by the time i had to leave the house. must say it makes planning one's outfits for the day a bitch though

are you sporting the fangs today?

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no it's more...jeans or chinos, what T-shirt to wear &c

it is absolutely gorgeous here today.

i am a little annoyed that i have been carrying around an umbrella for the last week and every time it rains i'm inside. i have not used it once. i know if i leave it home, though, i'll be caught in a huge storm.

Well, you can always go outside and splash about like you're gene kelly

see the thing is, i have this really pretty umbrella that i bought a month ago and haven't gotten to use yet! my last, broken umbrella it seems i used every other day. now with nice one, no dice.

wtf

like, insane torrential thunderstorm not two hours ago, and now I notice there's barely a cloud in the sky

We had sunshine, then cloud and gales, then hail, now it's partly cloudy with sun again. I keep looking out of the window expecting to see frogs or fish or something.

http://i44.tinypic.com/t7c29s.jpg

like seriously when is it going to start getting warm? It's been the same temperature in my town for the past two months I'm sure.

They reported snow on the radio earlier. In England. In May. Mental.

we had snow in may in the south-east in 2006 or 2007 iirc - it's not as unusual as all that.

it's not unusual but it is really really shit and depressing

(wa wawawawawa..) http://images.elyrics.net/artist_img/5d15525253ac5ee2-3.jpg

it's been hailing and thundering here...

it was nice at the weekend

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1MU3JnmSfDA/T2Ub52wdIlI/AAAAAAAABIA/gYlsn9QToao/s320/hot+hail.jpg

I have to keep looking out of the window to see what the weather is.

As in: Is it different to last time? Yes it is, it was sunny and now it's raining heavy. Oh, no it's sunny again...

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http://i.imgur.com/952SQ.gif

Mid-80s yesterday, mid-50s today. Diggin' it.

Four hours away, in Austin, I keep reading on FB that everyone is cold, pulling out sweaters....still running the ac.

Sudden hailstorm in Novosibirsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idjyusDUGSc#t=174

this morning's YAY THUNDER has been replaced by AW WE'RE FLOODED

Accidentally posted this in the Barbie thread. The big grain of salt is that the guy who designed the ARK2.0 model replies by saying there's no sign that this is on the horizon. Other hand, it does sound like rain after rain is heading to CA in the next few weeks.

WARNING: Meteorologists are currently debating whether California is about to get hit by something that they've been dreading for a long time: A series of storms that will drop multiple feet of rain over a few weeks.

They're not certain (yet), but it is entirely possible that…

— Danielle Langlois (@DanielleLangWa) January 24, 2024

Cool graphic of what's coming up (as much as Maue also hypes extreme possibilities):

Amazing! The Pacific jet stream will be screaming at maximum intensity over 200 mph for the next 2-weeks almost completely zonally elongated from Japan to California!

That's a pattern ripe for the West Coast of the U.S. to be bombarded with atmospheric rivers & keep North… pic.twitter.com/bbXP2UZpbQ

— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) January 23, 2024

well, it happened last winter

came here for the ARk tea

yeah, saw it will be nearing 50 here in Chicago next week! we followed up snow storms immediately with extreme low temps which immediately became rain. so we have huge puddles and flooding everywhere because the water has absolutely nowhere to go. fun!

we are under a storm warning (again) here in Oregon, heavy rain and wind coming on Jan 30th

a week ago an ice storm heavily damaged approx 60% of all the trees in the area, it's gonna be rough

yeah, i was following the Portland thread with those updates, crazy! good luck with this round, hopefully it won't be as drastic.

When it comes to weather forecasts I don't get worried about bad ones if they are still a week or more away. That far out they often get altered as the days pass. If a bad storm is expected in a day or two then I pay close attention.