Anybody getting any weather today?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:11 pm

Welcome to sunny SoCal...

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:24 pm

Hey, I'm loving the rain and so is my yard, especially the native plants. This is what signals them to come out of their summer dormancy.

The folks in the recent burn areas north of LA are prolly shitting their pants about now though.

Sirfindafold · Post by **Sirfindafold** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:25 pm

Expecting a foot of snow today (central Cal).

Katy · Post by **Katy** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:25 pm

We're getting snow flurries right now. :x

Reason #6051 why I need to move from this hellhole.

DiT · Post by **DiT** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:33 pm

just cold as balls here

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:55 pm

Holy-fuck cold here.

We usually get a blast of cold air as we transition to winter, with very dry air, and strong east winds. This would be an exceptionally nasty example of this phenomenon. Currently 21 degrees, with 40+MPH winds.

I want my 36 and light rain back, which will come soon enough... and stay for a couple of months.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:53 pm

I guess on the positive side -- if the winds die down for a day, it will be winter golf weather. No plugging balls in the fairway when it's been converted to tundra, and we won't have to take the customary U&L winter full-swing putting stroke to get across the green...

so we got that going for us.

It's also a good reminder to not bitch too much when the Blanket-Of-Doom covers western Cascadia -- since we're seeing the alternative. Seems like every year, the utopian few months of the year make me forget how miserable winter is here (although that's certainly not unique to this locale).

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:02 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Holy-fuck cold here.

We usually get a blast of cold air as we transition to winter, with very dry air, and strong east winds. This would be an exceptionally nasty example of this phenomenon. Currently 21 degrees, with 40+MPH winds.

I want my 36 and light rain back, which will come soon enough... and stay for a couple of months.

For the life of me, I will never understand anyone wishing 36 and drizzle on anyone, much less themselves.

21 certainly is chilly, but, it's just an extra layer of shit away from 36 degrees. And like you said, those drives will get a lot more roll with a 3 inch layer of frost on the surface, than a 3 inch layer of cold soup.

We are currently getting our first taste of winter. About 3 inches of white shit saturday night. Low 20s this morn. Cold enough to keep me off the bike till I gets my cycling booties from santa.

enjoy your yearly 4 days of shit weather, local weather faggits.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:54 am

Supposed to be around 17º tomorrow morning, & I'll be on two wheels. Thank GOD & God for Gerbings.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:56 am

Diego in Seattle wrote:Supposed to be in the teens tomorrow morning

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:00 am

Diego in Seattle wrote:Supposed to be around 17º tomorrow morning, & I'll be on two wheels. Thank GOD & God for Gerbings.

Nice edit, you Underoo sniffing playground skulker.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:04 am

Martyred wrote:
Diego in Seattle wrote:Supposed to be around 17º tomorrow morning, & I'll be on two wheels. Thank GOD & God for Gerbings.
Nice edit, you Underoo sniffing playground skulker.

Am I renting or leasing the space in your dome?

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:46 am

It feels as if winter is finally beginning. Sucks for you weather pussies.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:53 am

Mace wrote:Had 2-3 inches of snow last night and expecting 6-10 inches over the next couple of days with below zero wind chills and 40 mph winds. This week is gonna suck.

Not quite as bad here in the northern KC burbs, but it still sucks. I'm not ready for this shit, but then again, I'm never ready for this shit.

And of course, my water heater picked now to take a shit. I'm gonna' kill my wife if she doesn't quit bitching at me. She thinks hot water is a commodity.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:56 am

PSUFAN wrote:It feels as if winter is finally beginning.

Winter doesn't start for two weeks.

This is Fall weather, just ask Al Gore.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:02 am

Jesus, Tightwad Wagon. What the fuck is wrong with you? You should be providing comfort and plenty and gallons of hot water for your wife. Instead, you're in here wailing and knocking your knees and foaling a colt of bitterness from your disgustingly flappy vagina and festooning the rancid afterbirth across your keyboard. For what reason are you subjecting us to this?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:16 am

PSUFAN wrote:You should be providing comfort and plenty and gallons of hot water for your wife.

I am carrying water.... from the stove to the tub. Doesn't mean she's run out of things to bitch about.

H4ever · Post by **H4ever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:23 am

Mace wrote:Had 2-3 inches of snow last night and expecting 6-10 inches over the next couple of days with below zero wind chills and 40 mph winds. This week is gonna suck.

Carbon copy of good ol Nebraska. Penguins wouldn't stand for this shit!

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:31 pm

A whopping 19 this morning.

I'm a U&Ler, dammit -- I didn't sign up for this shit.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:09 pm

The weatherman now tells us this is only the third time in the last 12 years it's been below 20... and supposed to be colder tomorrow.

Fuck this.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:49 pm

I liked climate change better when it was global warming.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:50 pm

I'm 3 weeks from retirement
Rack you short-timer !!
Partly cloudy here in Fort Myers and 78 degrees according to my super accurate digital thermometer.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:59 pm

hurry up and die, bastard!!! :D :D :D

nahhh, never mind. your miserable shit sofla 93 and humid will be back in 3 months.

Trampis · Post by **Trampis** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:51 pm

2 degrees this morning east of the Cascade mountains. Had a nice power outage from 4am to 7:30 am this morning. Scrambled to get a propane heater going in the pumphouse so the pipes wouldnt freeze and a fire in the fireplace so the wife wouldnt get cold. I even did the 45 minute roundtrip to McDonalds to get hot breakfast and coffee for the family at 5:30. :)

Going below 0 tonight with no snow on the ground...hope it doesnt kill my wheat field, that would suck $$$.

Political Operative · Post by **Political Operative** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:00 pm

In the minuses in celsius, 20s for the Americans. Tonight we are supposed to get our first real snowfall of the season in Toronto... about 7 to 8 centimetres, (2 to 3 inches)

Bring it on! Mother F'n Nature

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:39 pm

Wolfman wrote:I'm 3 weeks from retirement
78 degrees according to my super accurate digital thermometer.

We were talking about the weather here, not your rectal temperature.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:17 pm

It was about 44 here when we went on our (almost) daily 5:20 a.m. walk, according to my super accurate indoor-outdoor digital thermometer.

It actually was colder last week, when we had ice on the cars a couple of times.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:56 pm

Papa Willie wrote: I think we've got Dinsdale's weather .

Just be happy you don't have his complexion.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:13 pm

Papa Willie wrote:54 and light rain here now.

That would be a dream-come-true right now.

54 is a little on the high side for these parts this time of year, but not out of the question.

Thing is, in my area, rainfall amounts can vary wildly this time of year, but the temps vary little. A high of 55 would be very warm, a high of 45 would be fairly cool. If it dips below freezing, it's generally for an hour or two right as the sun's coming up. So temps in the teens are out of the ordinary.

It's usually 48-49 in the early afternoon, 36-38 in the early AM, and usually drizzling/light rain/mist falling. And if it ain't raining, it's foggy as fuck. Spring weather is radically unpredictable, winter weather is generally pretty consitant, just a matter of how hard it's raining and how hard the wind's blowing.

Give it 3-4 weeks, and we'll probably see a few nasty storms, then things start warming and drying again...

as a general rule.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:08 pm

Typical winter weather here, well maybe not typical but the classic winter pattern:

A week of rain (usually a few heavy showers followed by intermittent drizzle) followed by two weeks of sun. Rainy mornings in the 40s with highs in the 50s or 60s. Sunny mornings can get down below freezing on some really dry days with highs as high as 80.

Winter and spring are really what make the weather here so enjoyable. Things go dormant and get brown and dried out in the summer, but the first winter rain is when things start turning green again and dormant seeds start germinating.

The classic pattern hasn't materialized much the past few years, hence the drought. This week (actually the storm a couple of weeks ago) is a good start.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:39 pm

What is this thing called winter you people speak of?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:43 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote:What is this thing called winter you people speak of?

There are 2 things I like about winter. The bugs all disappear and I don't have to mow the grass. Other than that, it sucks.

Die in a hurricane, btw.

Bucmonkey · Post by **Bucmonkey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:54 pm

Suckas...80 and AC is on today. Have fun peeps.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:55 pm

War Wagon wrote:
And of course, my water heater picked now to take a shit. I'm gonna' kill my wife if she doesn't quit bitching at me. She thinks hot water is a commodity.

And she would be right.

My hot water heater takes a shit and I am not going 12 hours with out a new one. I have the ability to replace it, and if I did not, I know someone who would for a meal, cash,weed,beer or the equivalent. Some one I know would have a functional used one if I did not have the jack to score a new one.

Combine that with my twin 5000 watt generators and we are good to go.

19 degrees west of PDX. This needs to stop.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:05 am

Up to a whopping 29 here... heat wave.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:15 am

I had icicles on my chin* this morning after my run. I would expect nothing less...it's fucking DECEMBER, you diapered ninnies. The 'wintry mix' has begun. I'm gonna throw on a hoodie and walk the dog while all of you guys wring hands and comfort each other.

*sup, ppanther's husband after cunnilingus?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:38 am

Derron wrote: My hot water heater takes a shit and I am not going 12 hours with out a new one. I have the ability to replace it...

I thought you'd be dead by now? Damn the bad luck...

I did replace it, just 3 years ago. The pos Whirlpool made in Johnson,Tennesee is still under warranty. So they sent me a new thermocouple manifold assembly, said the old one was defective, and this would fix the problem. So I put that in (what a pain in the ass) and it'll fire up... for about 5 minutes and then shuts itself off and won't fire again until it's completely cooled off. :brad:

So I call their warranty department again and now they're going to send me a new gas valve. Yeah, like that's going to work... your replacement parts are just as defective as the originals, even moreso, you stupid hicks.

Motherfuck, the old water heater this one replaced had been in the house since it was built in 1980. 26 fucking years, never a problem until it finally died, and this piece of shit motherfucker is only 3 years old?

Road trip, Eastern Tennesee, where I'll go postal on the dumbfuck engineers who designed this piece of shit. But first, I'm stopping at the Loews store who sold me this piece of shit.

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:41 am

Bucmonkey wrote:Suckas...80 and AC is on today. Have fun peeps.

AC at 80? Pussy.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:47 am

That a boy, Todd.

Don't stop at that, think used motor oil.

Leave an indelible mark on the planet.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:10 am

Some peeps don't get Todd, but I've always liked this bastard.