Major Weather Weirdness
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Dang, mother nature hates you, glad I'm not alone. Detangled 550' of hose in the rain today, guess she hates me too.
Pistolero
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We got two inches of rain today, my wife got very wet running a half marathon
this morning, and more coming tonight.
Average rainfall here by this time of the year is 5.4" So far this year we have had 17 ".
I am having trouble keeping up with the mowing.
In the 60s today.
Bill
this morning, and more coming tonight.
Average rainfall here by this time of the year is 5.4" So far this year we have had 17 ".
I am having trouble keeping up with the mowing.
In the 60s today.
Bill
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
"Love Train", I love that song. Always did. There was some good disco, not a lot of it, but some. Those were different times indeed. The same radio station playing the Ojays and Barry White were playing Olivia Newton John, John Denver, The Bay City Rollers, Kansas, the disco Bee Gees and James Brown. Won't find that mix anywhere today!
And there are two specific dangers in this; 1) a lot of people are just ignorant about it, 2) many who are not necessarily ignorant about it exploit the ignorance of others. This is played upon heavily in the rhetoric............. I'll stop with that before I go "political."
I will say that this year is the first year in 30+ years of being at this house that the grass has gotten literally knee-high before it was dry enough to mow. My dad tried it too early and stuck his mower (really stuck his mower) in my yard. It was two days before it was dry enough to extract it - and then it started raining again. This is the first year in fifteen years I have prepped my wifes raised beds, and when I wen to get her annuals at a farm market, there was a literal traffic jam on the state route in front of it with people trying to get in to get their stuff. Parking lot was full and there was a line at the register at least fifty feet long. Elbow to elbow, but everyone was actually polite.
"I remember when (from when I was a kid)...."
is started snowing in December and we didn't see green grass until the end of March;
Christmas was always accompanied by beautiful blanket of snow with no wind and temps you could endure without special clothing;
summers were calm, sunny and pleasant with temps in the high seventies to very low eighties and low humidity;
Easter Sunday was cool, dry and sunny - "perfect spring weather";
the Fourth of July was always sunny, dry, warm and pleasant;
I loved the Army and it was all great and wonderful, because that's what I remember and talk about, plus I had a wonderful childhood.
In Reality (understanding the mid-sixties are "recent memory" to many here):
I specifically remember one spring where it seemed as though we hadn't seen green grass since October. In 1978, we had one really wicked winter - people died;
I remember two Christmases specifically when Christmas morning was crisp, bright, white and the wind wasn't howling;
I remember the summers of 65 and 66 (?) having some particularly hot days, when my mom or an aunt warned us to stay out of the sun, keep our shirts on and once on of them made me wear "suntan lotion" to keep me from baking my ears off;
I specifically remember ONE Easter Sunday when it was wonderful outside and there are couple photos from that day - the rest were probably gray and wet;
Fourth of July, 1968, when there were massive floods, washing out large stone railroad trestles, trapping people from reaching roads to make it to town and water, water everywhere. As a second-grader, it seemed cataclysmic. To some - it was, depending on where you were at the time.
The things I remember and talk about regarding my Army stints and my childhood make it seem as though both were wonderful and rosy. Not so much on either count, but most of us choose to dwell on the rare finer points of our own short histories. I know a lot of people who have had it much worse than I and they do they same thing - "Good ol' Days Syndrome" - "selective memory."
What's Weird and what's Normal?
I don't mean to jump in here like I've got it all figured out because I don't. I'm just musing about my own distorted observations which I started to question several years ago. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what last year was like, but I am sure I complained about it based on what I thought it should be like compared to what it really was like. I think I've figured out that there are FOUR days in a year in NW Ohio that I consider to be "perfect" days - days where the weather acts like I think it should. I guess I think weird is normal in that respect. Oh, don't think I take it in stride - I grumble about it a lot. Mother Nature loves messing with me - she makes it lovely out when I have to be inside and makes it miserable out when I have to be outside.
fiver
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I remember some weird weather swings over the years too.
69 or 70 it was 110-113 for at least a week in san jose, that was when i found out I could actually handle real hot weather a lot better than like 90* stuff.
that winter there was frost on the cars windows and I'm pretty sure we were the only ones for a 10 mile radius with an ice scraper.
it was like 72 when I remember seeing snow flakes as big as a feather slowly drifting down and piling up outside the school window all day.
they let some of the older kids out of class early so they could help shovel the sidewalks around the school.
a couple of years later it snowed on the 4th of july parade.
10 years after that there was so much snow that winter people were feeding the deer by dumping hay along the highways, then in the spring we were volunteering to fill sand bags, and fishing on main street.
69 or 70 it was 110-113 for at least a week in san jose, that was when i found out I could actually handle real hot weather a lot better than like 90* stuff.
that winter there was frost on the cars windows and I'm pretty sure we were the only ones for a 10 mile radius with an ice scraper.
it was like 72 when I remember seeing snow flakes as big as a feather slowly drifting down and piling up outside the school window all day.
they let some of the older kids out of class early so they could help shovel the sidewalks around the school.
a couple of years later it snowed on the 4th of july parade.
10 years after that there was so much snow that winter people were feeding the deer by dumping hay along the highways, then in the spring we were volunteering to fill sand bags, and fishing on main street.
Pistolero
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Jeff H said ".....the grass has gotten literally knee-high before it was dry enough to mow. " Yeah, we are having
this problem this year, too. A couple of our wetter areas are still too wet to mow, haven't been over them at all
this year.
And no doubt that you remember the good times, not as much the crummy gray days indoors because of rotten
weather.
I do remember three hurricanes that really tore things up where we were living when I was a kid, not something that
was in the national news, which I paid no attention to then.
And our cabin in Colorado has been getting snow over the last couple of weeks. A bit later snowfall than is common,
but at that altitude (almost 10K MSL) it is possible to snow almost any day of the year. We have gotten several inches
in early June, and a couple of snowfalls in early-mid Sept, too.
Been a wet spring. I need to get some rocks around the foundation on the near bank or my bridge will be
washing out. I got the far bank rocked and mortared a couple of years ago. Going to have to repeat on the
near side this season. Creeks flowing really high this spring.
Weird weather is actually pretty common, at least over a lifetime. Just not every year.
Bill
this problem this year, too. A couple of our wetter areas are still too wet to mow, haven't been over them at all
this year.
And no doubt that you remember the good times, not as much the crummy gray days indoors because of rotten
weather.
I do remember three hurricanes that really tore things up where we were living when I was a kid, not something that
was in the national news, which I paid no attention to then.
And our cabin in Colorado has been getting snow over the last couple of weeks. A bit later snowfall than is common,
but at that altitude (almost 10K MSL) it is possible to snow almost any day of the year. We have gotten several inches
in early June, and a couple of snowfalls in early-mid Sept, too.
Been a wet spring. I need to get some rocks around the foundation on the near bank or my bridge will be
washing out. I got the far bank rocked and mortared a couple of years ago. Going to have to repeat on the
near side this season. Creeks flowing really high this spring.
Weird weather is actually pretty common, at least over a lifetime. Just not every year.
Bill
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Huh. See, for me it's the crappy, hard memories that stick. Waking up to 46" of "partly cloudy", 2 feet of wet snow so heavy you could only take half a shovel full and yet there was no water running out the bottom, roads covered with so much ice that the state had to run scarifiers on graders to give the salt they were putting down someplace to go. Summer was summer, lots of flies, hot weather, dried out lawns and people talking about "drought" because it hadn't showered in 2 weeks. Summer was/is easy. Winter is a bear.
But yeah, a big AMEN! to weather being "weird" pretty much every year. I think people today are incredibly arrogant to think we have "normal" all figured out.
But yeah, a big AMEN! to weather being "weird" pretty much every year. I think people today are incredibly arrogant to think we have "normal" all figured out.
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fiver
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the weather channel making everything into an epic end of the world scenario doesn't help.
speaking of snow, it was just a few years back I went to bed at 11 and got up at 5 to head out to work.
in that amount of time it had snowed enough to go from about 4-5"s on the ground to over the hood of the scout.
it took me most of an hour to dig a tunnel from the garage door to open the drivers door enough to squeeze in and start it up then bash a tunnel big enough to let the exhaust out and air into the grill.
speaking of snow, it was just a few years back I went to bed at 11 and got up at 5 to head out to work.
in that amount of time it had snowed enough to go from about 4-5"s on the ground to over the hood of the scout.
it took me most of an hour to dig a tunnel from the garage door to open the drivers door enough to squeeze in and start it up then bash a tunnel big enough to let the exhaust out and air into the grill.
I don't know where that came from or what it has to do with the weather, but man, does THAT push a button with me on BOTH counts. Won't dp the tie thing but get stuck wearing the other once a year, like it or not.
Ian
Notorious member
My profession specifically discourages neck ties. I haven't closed the top buttom on a shirt since my wedding day 11 years ago.
Petruchio, who appeared in rags at his wedding in The taming of the Shrew, said "She is marrying unto me, not unto my clothes". I have always held that character represents the person rather than their appearance.
Petruchio, who appeared in rags at his wedding in The taming of the Shrew, said "She is marrying unto me, not unto my clothes". I have always held that character represents the person rather than their appearance.