Weird Weather Watch 2005

How fortunate that I found this thread. In Edison, yesterday it was the perfect spring day after 3 months of winter. Today it snowed 4 inches of snow and is still going.

Cold and windy today here in Virginia. Kind of glad to see Winter again. Some things did start to grow sprouts, but having that spring pattern stay too long too early leaves a whole bunch of sprouting and bluming plants vulnerable to a late season frost. I'd rather see spring come when it is supposed to. We shall see how this spring/summer season works out.

Troy

Well it's been high 70s low 80s thus far this week in the Southern California region, forecasts show more of the same for the rest of the week. However, there is a heavy overcast every morning, that doesn't "burn" off until around noon. We used to call that "June Gloom" but this is March.

I have noticed some bizarre temperature fluctuations in my area. Three days ago I had icicles hanging off my gutters, most of them about three feet long. Two days ago the icicles were completely melted, in the course of one afternoon. Today, I have two foot icicles again.

Also, I live in a valley prone to heavy snows during the winter months, but this year we've gotten an unprecedented amount of rain. There have been two or three meaningful blizzards, but mostly just drizzle. It's odd enough that most of the people in town, even the old timers at the rest home, are talking about it in hushed tones with lots of eyebrow furrowing and confused faces to match.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - With snowpacks at a quarter of normal levels and sunny, warm days well ahead of the summer months, the home state of the "rainy city" of Seattle declared a drought emergency on Thursday.



Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire authorized the statewide drought emergency, the first since 2001, after unusually low winter snowfalls in the Cascades left rivers on both sides of the mountain range flowing at record-low levels.

story.news.yahoo.com.../nm/20050311/od_nm/environment_seattle_drought_dc

I think I must be in the only area of Australia that is experiencing normal weather. I wonder if it is a tropic thing going and only the temperate zones are being rocked by weird weather. Here is standard cyclone season and the number and severity of cyclones experienced will be telling of how 'normal' the weather is. The rainy season has been standard not to rainy and not to dry.



Florida experienced a sonic boom today, see the earthquake thread



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In connecticut we've been having big storms atleast once a week about. This is crazy the snow is out of control. WE've had more snow days and delays than I've ever had.

Goldberg, Germany 14 inches snow -i guess that is what 364.5 mm=severe.worldweather.org...
ski anyone?

Originally posted by accountability
ski anyone?

All of Europe is covered in snow. Lots of snow. I suspect that this snow will melt very quickly and we can all start doing watersports, diving and stuff. Floodings ahead...

hey, cool satelites picture. i've never seen europe like this

just more seriously about the weather, it's getting so hot lately. i think that in about 2 weeks we must have had an increase of 15°C in paris and london. how scary.

wierd or not? i'm not sure, i've never lived in Minnesota
but that's a lot of snow for the near the end of March I would think
Late-Winter Storm Sweeps Through Minnesota With Up to 16 Inches of Snow

A late-winter storm dropped up to 16 inches of snow across portions of Minnesota on Friday, forcing dozens of schools to close and canceling more than 200 flights out of the Twin Cities.
Jim Kline of the National Weather Service said the heaviest snowfall was in the state's southern counties, which could receive more snow throughout the night.

"This storm system is really stuck," he said. "They are going to continue to get dumped on."

well this has to be wierd weather
UK Enjoys Sunshine
Britain has basked in the unseasonally warm sunshine again, enjoying the hottest day of the year so far.

Temperatures peaked in Wisley, Surrey, and Trawscoed, near Aberystwyth in mid Wales, where a figure of 21.4C (70.5F) made it the hottest March 19th since records began.

Just a few weeks ago the country was gripped in arctic weather with snow and ice causing travel chaos in parts of the country.

Temperatures plunged as low as minus 8.5C (17F) and some regions had up to 2in of snow.

I'm based in london and today was a hot day. It was like a day at the height of summer - and this evening is still very warm. Just to think last week everyone were wearing scalfs hats coats, with the heating turned up full - very very weird

Once again the entire west coast, up to Oregon, is drenched in rain. We're seeing exactly the opposite of normal weather patterns. It's very strange to say the least. Florida is getting tons of rain too, along with a stretch of rain and snow across the plains that should be getting around to my neck of the woods shortly.

No meteorologists are coming forward and saying how strange this is. They get a different meteorologist every day for the weather channel, so who knows if they just show them the door the minute they start asking questions, or if it's some kind of training ground for meteorologists. :shrug: Who knows.

Anyway, the weather is wierd. That's no longer disputable. That sat snap of Europe was funny... I've never seen it like that. It could almost be considered beautiful, if it wasn't a scene out of Day After Tommorow.

Anyone yet to have winter weather in the summer? Now that would be pretty messed up.

Troy

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
They get a different meteorologist every day for the weather channel, so who knows if they just show them the door the minute they start asking questions

heh, that was a good one...

Here in NE Ohio on March 19th it was almost 60 today.

It seems that as I previously said, the temperate zones are experience extreme weather fluctuations and yet the tropic zone is normal standard weather, more so than in previous years.

Originally posted by cybertroy
Anyone yet to have winter weather in the summer? Now that would be pretty messed up.

Troy

Close to it. No snow, but here in Missouri where it gets up in the 90's and 100's in July and August, it was in the 70' s most of the time. We had one of the coldest and wettest summers on record. The creeks never dried up they were full and stayed that way. I think it got up to 90 like 6 times or something crazy like that. It was kind of strange to walk around in July with a jacked on. Some days were in the 50's and 60's, but I believe the average was 70. That was when I got on here to try to find out what was going on. I am not sure that I wore shorts at all last summer.

Thanks for the info mrsdudara,

That's a significant difference in temperatures.

Sometimes in the not so distant past, Spring here in Virginia would start off like Summer and it would be quite warm. This Spring is a bit cooler, it's in the 30s tonight. I do welcome the fact that there isn't a drought at this time.

It would just be so screwed up to have everything growing and blooming, and then a killer frost hits, late. I do remeber a drizzly day in the 50s some years back during a drought here in the Summer.

There is just a randomness with weather anymore, and if it gets worse, it could do some real damage to aggraculture. The damage would be especially bad if Winter like weather mixes in with Summer weather (the growing seasons).

Are we having a polar shift or what? I guess I'll keep my eyes and ears open for oddities this Spring/Summer.

Troy