Mt Washington Summit weather station
that should probably include "on Earth"
, Jupiter's Red Spot has been "clocked" at just under 400mph
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that should probably include "on Earth"
, Jupiter's Red Spot has been "clocked" at just under 400mph
Turkey.
I once observed a turkey waiting on the sidewalk at a controlled intersection. When the walk sign illuminated, the turkey began to quickly cross the street.
I've been up Mt. Washington at other times but not in the winter. It is another world in terms of weather in the winter.
Nice short clip of how hard the wind blows on a not-infrequent basis: YouTube
And here's a well-worn video with famous (in these parts) clips of breakfast on the mountain at 2:00 min mark (which has been repeated several times) and an interesting attempt to join the century club at about 1:00 min. YouTube
My uncle served 3 tours of duty in Korea -- the functional equivalent of a Mobil Army Surgical Hospital, but he said it was different from the 1970's TV series -- they had Brit nurses -- at any rate, the temps got to -30F or worse and the USArmy issued blankets were thin. At that time Korea was quite primitive in its food safety regimen so he and some other docs tried to see what would kill the parasites. Nothing temperature wise would kill the parasites.
Expecting 60F here in the People's Repub of NJ tomorrow. Weekend will see single digits in the ancestral homeland of NE Ohio.
Expecting 60F here in the People's Repub of NJ tomorrow. Weekend will see single digits in the ancestral homeland of NE Ohio.
Couple days ago:
I think -17 c was cold enough in a sour draft, dismantling some broken cast iron bits outside. Gloves did not seem to help much, but they probably did. Got "nail bite" on all ten digits 4 times/thawed again in the car in under 40 minutes. Had some soldering work (still outside) afterwards, but after a while the gas refused to flow evenly from my soldering iron, had done most of it by then though. Then it was IT work/support/programming afterwards, felt really good to be inside again.
Not so cold now, - 6 c. Hoping to get another cold wave to get the fraction freezing going properly on my plum wine, do not want to put 24 liters of wine in the freezer. Can get 30% if you have a lot of patience on -18 c.
I think -17 c was cold enough in a sour draft, dismantling some broken cast iron bits outside. Gloves did not seem to help much, but they probably did. Got "nail bite" on all ten digits 4 times/thawed again in the car in under 40 minutes. Had some soldering work (still outside) afterwards, but after a while the gas refused to flow evenly from my soldering iron, had done most of it by then though. Then it was IT work/support/programming afterwards, felt really good to be inside again.
Not so cold now, - 6 c. Hoping to get another cold wave to get the fraction freezing going properly on my plum wine, do not want to put 24 liters of wine in the freezer. Can get 30% if you have a lot of patience on -18 c.
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Works on maple syrup too. I often freeze sap and toss the ice for up to half the content. Speaking of which, if we were a commercial operation we'd have tapped out for this warm spell. I'm sure there's high sugar content sap flowing now.
Oh, we were up to 50F (10C) yesterday and higher today. Then a slow drop back to normal temps with occasional snow over the next week.
Cold wasn't the problem yesterday and today.....cold comes tomorrow. With about 3 inches of packed snow on the ground, the rain came.....and hasn't stopped yet. It will rain until late tonight when the rain turns to mush and then snow. 5 to 8 inches, 10 in isolated areas are expected by mid day tomorrow.
This morning I looked outside to see that the previously frozen creek had thawed and overflowed its banks. Water had risen about halfway up the back yard, and the pressure started pushing the water in the saturated ground toward the house. My lab, workroom, and music studio are in the basement which is well below the level of the water.
The neighbor told me that she has standing water in her basement, so I spent the morning dragging expensive electronics upstairs. So far there has been no water intrusion, but the creek is still rising. Flooding has pushed some of the septic tank drain field water into the sump system, stinking up the entire house.
The first picture was taken a few days ago. Everything was frozen and ice was at the normal water level. The next two pictures show the creek about 11 AM this morning.
This morning I looked outside to see that the previously frozen creek had thawed and overflowed its banks. Water had risen about halfway up the back yard, and the pressure started pushing the water in the saturated ground toward the house. My lab, workroom, and music studio are in the basement which is well below the level of the water.
The neighbor told me that she has standing water in her basement, so I spent the morning dragging expensive electronics upstairs. So far there has been no water intrusion, but the creek is still rising. Flooding has pushed some of the septic tank drain field water into the sump system, stinking up the entire house.
The first picture was taken a few days ago. Everything was frozen and ice was at the normal water level. The next two pictures show the creek about 11 AM this morning.
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George -- the part of Cleveland where I grew up was called "the heights" -- and it was indeed several hundred feet above the level of the Cuyahoga River basin. Low and behold one summer in the 1960's we had a couple days of rain and there was a foot-and-half of water in the streets! It appeared almost instantaneously.
I pity the folks in Southern Cali.
For the record, up in Sonoma CA they had helicopters dropping what seemed to be plugs of rye-grass into the scorched countryside.
I pity the folks in Southern Cali.
For the record, up in Sonoma CA they had helicopters dropping what seemed to be plugs of rye-grass into the scorched countryside.
We live in a place known as "the bottom." Our address is on Bottom Lane. We are several feet above the Ohio River....I don't know the exact elevation but a cell phone GPS showed about 50 feet above the mean river height several years ago. The neighbor told us that she had water in her basement once in the 50+ years she had lived there. Yesterday was number 2. The stray cat they have been feeding reluctantly hid in their basement for the 14 days of real cold we just had, but freaked out at the water and bolted outside.....I'm guessing she's back in their basement...the snow is deeper than the cat is tall.
We did not get any water in our basement yesterday, but the sump ran nearly continuously for several hours. It the power had gone out.....
That was commonplace in Florida. Sometimes it would last for days, usually related to a hurricane or tropical storm. Here are a couple of pictures from a storm in 1999. We lived at the house with the red minivan.
Here are two pictures of the backyard this morning. That truck rim is 10 inches wide. It's all got to melt sometime. It looks like that's a few days off, which is good. The creek is still about 2 feet above normal.
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George,
A portable generator is rarely needed and is a bad idea in a city as the suffering neighbors will complain about the noise. But when you need it!
The other item folks don't seem to know about are rubber expanding sewer drain plugs. Very useful when the sewer lines flood to keep your basement dry.
A portable generator is rarely needed and is a bad idea in a city as the suffering neighbors will complain about the noise. But when you need it!
The other item folks don't seem to know about are rubber expanding sewer drain plugs. Very useful when the sewer lines flood to keep your basement dry.
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At about 9:30-10am EST this morning, it was 55F (13C). Now, at 10:50am (an hour or so later) it is 37F (3C) and falling fast. By tonight it will drop to 1F (-17C). We lost most of our 2 feet (60cm) of snow and the basement sump is running regularly due to serious rain. We're a day behind George it seems.
The cheapie blower got its true test today. I started the day at 7:30 AM when the snow stopped falling. With just over 6 inches of fresh snow and 110 X 20 feet of driveway I attacked.......then did the neighbors 90 X 20 feet after he tried pushing the snow around with the blade on his 4 wheeler. Again the cheapie snow blower did the job.
Here is a picture of when I started out. The snow is thrown upward and outward in whatever direction you point the chute. There is a deflector that can angle the snow stream more towards horizontal at the expense of throwing distance. We had a strong north wind, so I left it wide open and a lot of the snow reached the neighbors driveway and beyond (50 feet away). I had already told him that I would do his driveway.
I lived in hurricane central for 62 years. We had power outages lasting up to a week at least every other year, and one that lasted for 22 days. I have 3 generators.
The big boy, of course refused to start when I tested it yesterday. I'll bet it fires up on the second pull today. It was however the loudest noise maker in the old neighborhood in Florida......but we had the only working telephone for over a month, so people lined up to use it whenever they heard the generator running. Most of our neighborhood had been upgraded to digital phone service via a SLIC in a underground vault at the neighborhood entrance. I was one of the very few who lived there for 37 years and still had the original twisted pair to the CO. The storm destroyed all the cell towers and flooded the vault containing the SLIC. I ran a generator for 4 to 6 hours a day to keep the refrigerator cold and run the pool pump (when there is no air conditioning in Florida, I lived in the pool. I powered a cordless phone from the generator and let the neighbors use it......they are not going to complain about the noise.
I have a little POS that just needs a fuel line (ethanol gas ate it), but I have one of those new fangled inverter generators that runs relatively quiet until you ask it for full power. I got it for places like hamfests and campgrounds where the noise from my big boy would get you evicted, or a stray bullet may find your generator. Again the inverter generator is a cheapie, but it has always worked when I needed it.
I see you are in New England. Forum member Kevinkr is somewhere north of Boston and we figured that out a couple of years ago. What we got today, he would get tomorrow. Yesterday it was 60 degrees. This morning it was 5.
