0-60 in 24 hours

[HAL9000v2.0]

The weather is f....d totaly...

Yesterday temperature rised form -18°C to +13°C in less then 24 hours.

I have never experienced something like that in my life. Realy strange and unplesent feeling.

 

[steveo]

global warming at its finest ..

i heard on the radio this morning, 2009 was the warmest year in a very long time!

-steveo

 

[Ypedal]

Same thing over here... was minus double digits last week and + double a few days later.. got ALOT of rain yesterday ! ( would have been 12 inches of snow had it been cold enough ! :lol: )

 

[amberwolf]

Tuesday morning thru midday it was sunny, nearly 70F. I went inside to start getting ready for a pedal-only trip to the store before going to work. I could hear some wind kicking up with the roof vents rattling, then I heard thunder about 5 minutes later, and in less than a minute it was dark and pouring cold rain. Some parts of the valley got lots of hard hail, too. It lasted for a couple of hours then let up just long enough for me to get partway to work and started again. As soon as I arrived and went inside, it stopped raining and got partly sunny again for an hour or so, then started raining off and on the rest of the day and night, till around 9pm-ish, I'd guess. Then it got cold because the clouds cleared up.

Yesterday it got sunny and warmish, but dropped more than 30F between sunset and dawn.

Today it again was sunny (even warmer) but dropped more than 20F in just two hours (on my bike ride home), and right now, 2am, it's 28F out there. It was 33F at midnite.

It's a desert, so it is expected that temperature swings will be severe. But some of the weather we get nowadays is much much different than it used to be. It's been changing a lot these last 20-something years.

 

[Zoot Katz]

My first year in Winnipeg the temperature went up 60º, from -30º F to +30º F, overnight and was still below freezing.
The average yearly temperature in Vancouver is somewhere around fifty-two degrees Fahrenheit.
We have about the same number of frost-free days as Atlanta, Georgia US of A, 12º south and on the other coast of NA.

One thing you can say about coastal mountain weather in general is that if you don't like it - wait 20 minutes. It will change.

 

[dogman dan]

As they say in New Mexico, if you don't like the weather wait 5 minuites. 50 F daily temp spread is pretty normal, but I've seen 60 before. Will today in fact. 23F now but it will hit 60F later. One day in Santa Fe, walking the dog in shorts and a t shirt at 8:00 am, and sledding by 3:00 pm. It's the low humidity in the desert, nitrogen and oxygen molecules don't carry much heat, so it's almost moonlike. Freeze on the shady side, and fry on the sunny side. Humidity makes the temp swing a lot less daily.

But it does seem like some of the storms come down from the arctic quicker than I remember in my youth.

Merry christmas to all BTW. Hope santa brought you lithium. 8)