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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

Bubba said:
Mid/upper 90s in the ATL this week, with humidity, of course. This ain't a dry heat.

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But isn't that supposed to be in September, after Summer? Summer hasn't even arrived yet.
 
Super Amputee Cat said:
But isn't that supposed to be in September, after Summer? Summer hasn't even arrived yet.
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The current weather is effed up fifty ways to Sunday. After highs in the upper 90s yesterday afternoon, we had the single worst hailstorm I've ever experienced hit about 10:15 last night. The hail itself was just pea-sized, but it was pretty intense for about 15 minutes. I'm guessing I'll have to run shady roofing contractors off my property several times over the next few weeks...
 
We're getting showers a few times a day in between bright sunny times. I've never seen as many mushrooms as we currently have. Officially moved from humid to dank.
 
I could see my breath in the light of my headlamp when I was outside warming up and stretching before my run this morning. It's too early in the year for that.
 
In the low 80s today and one last hurrah for summer with record highs close to 90s forecasted for tomorrow and Sunday. We had tickets to tomorrow's Michigan v UConn game but my wife gave them to our daughter's friend's family (they just moved here from Japan and have never been to The Big House) earlier in the week. I wasn't looking forward to going to the game but knowing where our seats were and looking at the forecast, I'm definitely glad to be staying home tomorrow now!
 
We're easing into a very fine fall here in North Texas.

(Which probably means I'll be posting in a couple of weeks that's down in the 20s)
 
Expecting 97'F in the mid-Ohio River Valley today. Then true fall temps beginning overnight...
 
Maister said:
I saw a maple tree whose leaves had turned completely red yesterday.
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We've got quite a few that have completely turned over here already, including the big trees in front of the house across the street which always seem to turn red and orange right after school begins each year.

We have a bunch of maple trees in our yard and they like to stay green and hold on to their leaves until sometime just before Thanksgiving, at which point the quickly turn brown and fall off the trees all at once.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
We've got quite a few that have completely turned over here already, including the big trees in front of the house across the street which always seem to turn red and orange right after school begins each year.

We have a bunch of maple trees in our yard and they like to stay green and hold on to their leaves until sometime just before Thanksgiving, at which point the quickly turn brown and fall off the trees all at once.
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Seems like peak colors over here are usually mid-October, but mid-September is when we start to see the early outliers.
 
I know Maine has had a pretty dry summer. Hoping that doesn't impact the fall color too much and some of it hangs on until mid-October when I get up there.
 
It was low 40's here this morning. I try to make it to December before I turn on the heat. As I was shivering this morning, I remembered that I have an electric mattress pad. Aaaaaaah
 
It got down to the upper 30's. No, I did not turn on the heat as the inside temps were still above 60.
 
My guess is we won't need any heating until Thanksgiving. I'm happy that my AC is not constantly cycling on.

It seemed like somewhat of a mild summer. It got hot earlier this year, but I don't believe we ever cracked 100, which is odd. I don't know that we ever had spring time weather. Usually we spend half a month between 95-104 around late July to August.
 
We still can't turn off the A/C for another month. We get a low of 82, but at least the pool is still open!
 
Well the governor is now talking to us. We're screwed. Haha. Hard to say how much we're going to be impacted but my area has been given a pretty high probability of having tropical storm force winds. Lots of rain for sure. Stay tuned.

I really don't want to have to be in the EOC this weekend!
 
MD Planner said:
Well the governor is now talking to us. We're screwed. Haha. Hard to say how much we're going to be impacted but my area has been given a pretty high probability of having tropical storm force winds. Lots of rain for sure. Stay tuned.

I really don't want to have to be in the EOC this weekend!
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Yeah, hurricanes, tropical storms, tornados are all part of it.
 
Currently 44º here in Metro Detroit.

We seemed to have gone immediately from summer to late-fall temps here with the first day of fall last week. It looks like we may miss out completely on that good, crisp, fall weather with sunshine and daytime temps in the mid-to-upper-60s.
 
They told us to gas up vehicles just in case, but we're well out of the expected path. We do have a couple crews of lineman on standby ready for some time in Florida. They love it, all the overtime they can get. Our Utility manager also likes it because they roll on to someone else's books for a few weeks and it looks like we're saving money.
 
As was expected we got nothing from the hurricane, which was nice. When the initial path came in we were expecting a few inches of rain over the weekend. We're going on a month without rain and only about 2 inches in the last two months. I had to spend the weekend watering a lot of plants that I normally don't have to worry about. They're predicting the next significant rainfall is going to be a couple of weeks out.
 
We had fetch from Lake Michigan Monday a.m. It didn't amount to anything locally, but my observation has been that around here, the earlier the snow, the drier the winter. We're already in a minor drought, so this doesn't bode well.
 
Gedunker said:
We had fetch from Lake Michigan Monday a.m. It didn't amount to anything locally, but my observation has been that around here, the earlier the snow, the drier the winter. We're already in a minor drought, so this doesn't bode well.
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What's 'fetch'?
 
Gedunker said:
The backside of the pressure system passing east brought winds off Lake Michigan bearing very light snow - known as fetch - to the mid-Ohio River valley.
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Western Michigan gets quite a bit of lake effect snow every winter. But I gather that's not the same thing. Here's what NOAA has to say about it:

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Lake Effect snow occurs when cold air, often originating from Canada, moves across the open waters of the Great Lakes. As the cold air passes over the unfrozen and relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes, warmth and moisture are transferred into the lowest portion of the atmosphere. The air rises, clouds form and grow into narrow band that produces 2 to 3 inches of snow per hour or more.
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