Yeah, 2006 did the same thing. We normally get our “spring” cold snap in January/February.
This is the second year in a row we’ve had a long cold snap in late Feb going into March. And that WIND…brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
In 1988, (or maybe it was 89?) we had an absolutely brutal January cold snap, ambient temps 30-40 below and adding in the windchill took it to the 90s below…That was when I was still working outside at the Anchorage Int’l Airport…First time I’ve ever had to resort to wearing goggles thanks to the weather. The memory is fading, but it seems as if I remember that one lasting about three weeks or more as well.
At any rate, most of this winter has been fairly normal. Though we did get a semi-weird cold snap in November as well. But then, that’s the weather up here, the only thing predictable, is that it’s unpredictable. I’ve been here 37 years and I’ve seen all sorts of weird winter weather. You can’t ever depend on it being “normal”.
mmm, spoken like a tourist. It rains quite often here in summer - it’s called a “Black Southeaster”.
Still, it looks like we’re getting our normal autumn weather so far - I’d have to see actual Weather Service figures rather than rely on my own opinion.
We got more of a ‘real’ winter here in Missouri. More snow than I can remember (and that horrid 13" in one day thing…first time my college was cancelled in like 30 years) and ice storms, more snow, evil wind chills, below average temps every time I watched the news. I hated it. But spring is finally starting (highs in 50s) so I’m okay now…about time to break out the flip flops.
We finally got snow on February 14, and the past few days have been the coldest of the year. I feel very discombobulated. Spring should last about two weeks and then it will be too hot. :mad:
Here in the south (US) it has been much milder in the past few years. In the mid 1990’s, the heat was brutal. My power bill in the summer months is easily $150, due to the AC.
Historically we have odd weather. It is not unusual for the temp to be 50 on Monday and 75 on Wednesday.
It’s been a screwy winter here. We have had balmy days approaching 60°F followed by days where the temperature never rises above 30°F. Other than a few dustings of snow here and there that always melt off by midday we haven’t seen enough snow to make Frosty’s left testicle. White Christmases are rare, about 1 in 6 it seems. It seems back when I was a child we could always count on a snowy white Christmas and each day during the school break we would go out and do all the fun stuff in the snow. If I were a kid today I’d be disappointed as hell (I astill am) that there’s hardly been any snow to play in.
We can still count on the summers to be hot, though. What seems to be less common, though, are the thunderstorms that come in to cool us off after a blazing hot day.
On my way in today, one station said it was -17. Another said it was 11. (no way–the car complained as if it were much colder) I’m pretty sure the two stations are in the same building. :smack: I went with “somewhere below zero”. But they’re also predicting in the 40s this weekend. I am confused.
Well the sun is shining it’s officially 11 degrees C and we just had a shower of hail out of a mostly blue sky. So certainly a bit odd today.
But I don’t remember the weather ever being what it was ‘supposed’ to be. When was England’s last proper white Christmas? It seems the snow (if there is any) usually holds out until February or later.
We had essentially no snow until January, which is the first genuine green Christmas I’d seen (not just where it happened to get warm and the rain melted the snow) and the first green Christmas in Quebec City in recorded history.
Since then it’s been comfortingly cold; since Valentine’s Day we’ve had three really intense blizzards. But now the temperature, which was -35 with the windchill a few days ago, is going up to like +9 by Monday.
I’m in west central Indiana, and today it is supposed to be nearly 90F. We rarely get a white Christmas anymore, and I don’t expect this year to be any different. We still need more rain, as we are having a borderline drought in my area.
I can’t wait for fall, the cool air and rain to return!
Hmm not a single Floridian bitching about our recent weather?
Okay then I will. We’ve been completely socked in for the better part of two weeks by a lingering low pressure system and stalled front, during which time several neighborhoods have been flooded to death by neverending torrential rains. Oops and it just started back up (again). Okay not really bitching because actually it is a nice change of pace from the endless cloudless early summer we just had (during which time everyone bitched about the drought we were having). I wouldn’t mind seeing some brilliant blue skies and temps in the 70’s sometime soon tho.
We had a hot, miserable July this year (Calgary is rarely hot in summer - just nice and warm), then the weather switched off on the first of August, and it was coolish from Aug. 1 to now - and we usually have a nice, long Indian Summer, too. Our first snowfall was last week - that is a bit early even for here. Last year, we had chinook after chinook, rather than one or two all winter.
In a nutshell, I’d say we are having extremes when we normally don’t, and having long stretches of mild weather when we should be having extremes.
I would have killed for chinooks last winter. I spent most of the winter in Edmonton, where there was snow on the ground continually from late October to mid April, and cold temps that never quit. Perhaps this wouldn’t sound so strange though, if the Edmonton winter before hadn’t been unusually warmish, with very little snow; and what did fall melted fairly quickly.
Funny how small climates can be. For those who don’t know their geography, I’m talking about a city only about 200 miles north of featherlou’s location.
The summers seem the same, but winters don’t seem to be as cold as they used to be. When I was a kid here, it used to snow pretty much every winter, enough that it would gather for at least a few days and we could make snowmen, snow ice cream, have snowball fights, etc. Now it only snows every couple of years or so, and rarely gathers. When it does it rarely lasts more than a day. It’s odd.
We are way behind on rainfall, so we’re having a spate of dry humor. I have heard the "My dog was chasin’ a rabbit; they was both walkin’ " joke eight times this summer. The dry spell made for very few mosquitoes, though, until the last few weeks. We had only one West Nile Fever death this year, so far.
This summer a record was set here, with 12 consecutive days over 100 degrees (F). Previous record was seven days.
We are in the most severe two-year drought in recorded history, which goes back to 1806. Ponds and even large lakes are drying up, many wells are dry and people are having to haul drinking water.
This seems odd, with excess rain in nearby places like Texas and Louisiana, but that’s how it is.
We’ve been completely socked in for the better part of two weeks by a lingering low pressure system and stalled front, during which time several neighborhoods have been flooded to death by neverending torrential rains. Oops and it just started back up (again). Okay not really bitching because actually it is a nice change of pace from the endless cloudless early summer we just had (during which time everyone bitched about the drought we were having). I wouldn’t mind seeing some brilliant blue skies and temps in the 70’s sometime soon tho.