Lovely here in the SF/SJ Bay area. Not too hot, not too cold. Nice.
We are forecast to have record high temperatures here, both today and tomorrow.
91F.
Yuck.
You want some soul sucking humidity? I can carve a large chunk out of the NYC atmosphere with a cleaver and mail you a box. I won’t even have to mark it “fragile.”
Going up to the middle or upper '80s later today. Low tonight in the upper '60s. It is OCTOBER. The HIGH is supposed to be in the middle '60s.
I’m so sick of wearing shorts and spouse-beaters. I wanna look like a civilized urban human being again.
I would say Edmonton winters for the last 20 years have been freakishly warm - lots of freeze/thaw cycles. In my youth I seem to remember -20 F. for 3+ months was normal.
Yeah, last winter was long - the problem being that our Autumn weather is cool and miserable (this year is a perfect example) and spring is wild variation between warmth and snowfalls.
Generally winters are much warmer, and the rest of the year coolish.
It’s a warm wind that occurs during the winter, mainly in Alberta. It is so warm, that dramatic temperature rises can and do occur:
See the Wikipedia page (the source of the above quote) for more information.
Thank you Spoons
Chinooks are fascinating weather events. They come in so fast; I was out walking when one came in once, and from the start of the block to the end, I could have worn a parka at one end and a t-shirt at the other end. I’ve also been out when they got blown out of town (by the north wind, naturally), and the temperature drops like a stone. They also cause massive migraines in people sensitive to them, and kill evergreens (evergreens start to transpire at 5ºC, and not a lot of people know that you have to water them in winter when it gets warm enough). And the cloud formations that they cause - absolutely stunning. I suggest a Google image search on Chinook Arch if you’re curious.
I was born and raised in Southern California where the weather is pretty predictable. Taters mentioned a wind storm last year, and that reminded me of the weather up here.
I moved here at the end of 2003. I missed the weather last year, since I was in SoCal. I don’t remember snow that first winter. 2004/2005 brought snow for about a week in February. It never accumulated to more than about a foot in my yard, but it persisted around the area for a couple of weeks. The following season it snowed off-and-on for a few days and stacked up about three or four inches. There were a couple of ‘Pineapple Express’ storms that felt rather balmy. Then there was last year. A friend had needed a place in a hurry to live, and I wanted someone in the house while I was away. He said it dumped about 18" in one night. Power was out. (I bought a 3000w generator over the phone and he went to get it. His Prius did wind up off the road at one point.) It sounded like it was a real mess. I don’t remember the timeline, but I know that there were record winds in November. 82mph recorded. Lots of storm damage. My friend who sold me the house had been living in the area for a few years before I came up, and he never mentioned such weather.
I’ve been hearing people say that Western Washington is expected to experience a very snowy winter this year. I really hate shoveling and sweeping the walk. And there are ‘mountains’ between here and Seattle. (Anyone know their name? The 5 freeway between Whatom and Skagit Counties.) But I’ve been set up with VPN so I can still work if I get snowed in – as long as the cable doesn’t go out.
As for SoCal, I’ve heard from a friend that temps are in the 80s in L.A. I always hated that. It should be cold, damp and blustery this time of year. Well, now I have it! (I’ll admit though, that L.A. winter temperatures are pretty attractive in January and February.)
There were two big sets of windstorms last year; in November, along with major flooding, and in December. December was a big one. People around Western Washington were without power for a good number of days.
I was lucky; I only suffered a power blink, but the neighborhood surrounding mine was without power for a solid week.
Hey, speak of the Devil and her horns will appear! 
We’re seeing it too here in Central Kentucky. It’s October 6th and 90 degrees. We’ve had entire SUMMERS here in which it never hit 90 degrees.
In the meantime, last April, we had three days of a really hard freeze that killed almost everything that was in bloom.
In Cleveland (where I’m originally from) they’ve seen a version of the same thing, as evidenced by the completely bizarre year their baseball team has had… in April the Indians’ games got snowed out, and last night it was so warm that million of midges hatched from along the shoreline and swarmed the baseball players.