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Seriously! What's up with the weather?

BluesRocker

BluesRocker

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I don't like small talk as much as the next person but...

Seriously!

What is up with this?

I have never seen it this dry and warm in January. Where is the snow and cold weather? Don't get me wrong. I like it. But it is kinda weird. Right?

I have never been a big global warming person. I'm usually in the camp of, I'm not a scientist so I don't really know. But maybe there is something to it.
 
Supposed to snow Monday, Wednesday & Thursday.

KSL was showing some of the drier December months and how the next few month ended up being heavier snow months than usual. So don't rule out assloads of snow coming down the line.
 
Ah.... hell na! The snow better not show its face around these here parts after missing the Christmas party. I'll go order one of those Chinese weather missiles off the Chinese Ebay, Taobao, and fight it to the teeth at the first sign. The teeth.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
As somebody that woke up and went Longboarding on the means streets of Park City this year instead of snowboarding because there was no snow on the opening day of ski season, I'm totally joking.

As somebody that has been rear-ended in my car(by other cars of course - sickos) at least twice each winter season for the past 3 years, I'm not joking.
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Nice save.
 
In Reno we have not had a single snowstorm or rainstorm since early September. Very weird. It has been bitter cold, but no precipitation at all.
 
babe said:
I think VinylOne wouldn't be in Utah no matter what. So there's goes that conspiracy theory, at least for me.
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I totally agree, which is why I asked where he lived. I mean, it's totally improbable for someone in, say California, to look at and/or read about weather in Utah via the webz, but that's not really the point here.
 
I've had more snow at the ranch than at my place in SLC. Last year this was true too, in huge proportions. I had two feet of snow that didn't melt off until March last year. This year I've had several one-inch "storms" that just blew by SLC, and the ground is clear, as usual. I usually don't get the inversions, and enjoy more sunshine all winter.

Our reservoirs are all full as it is, and I know the water bills will be raised this summer claiming the drought as the cause and all that, anyway.

I look at NOAA website data almost every day, and have been an avid follower of weather since I was a kid. We are moving into a stronger sunspot activity situation, and we have a "standing wave" phenomenon with a jet stream that has been very steadily in place, dumping on Alaska and re-building the Arctic ice. It's called the Atlantic Oscillation by some meterologists, but this one has been particular strong. I've been looking at the Pacific Ocean temps and have seen a recent increase in the temps in the zone west of Mexico, from Cabo San Lucas southward and west towards Hawaii.

And yes, things are changing now to favor storms moving in on us. It's the very early stages of an El Nino, which always begins in the spring months and continues for a year or two. I'll be out planting new fields this spring.
 
BluesRocker said:
I have never seen it this dry and warm in January. Where is the snow and cold weather? Don't get me wrong. I like it. But it is kinda weird. Right?
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Isn't it always dry and warm in L.A.?

catratcho said:
Remember that in August when you want a drink of water.
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I wondered about that but I was watching one of the local newscasts a few weeks back and they were talking to some expert that said we got enough precip last year that we can afford a light winter like this has been. But, two in a row would be pretty bad.
 
BluesRocker said:
I have never been a big global warming person. I'm usually in the camp of, I'm not a scientist so I don't really know. But maybe there is something to it.
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Eery three years or so I remind people that cold, snowy weather in the US is not disproof of global warming. The flipside is that a warm, dry winter is not proof of it.
 
babe said:
I've had more snow at the ranch than at my place in SLC. Last year this was true too, in huge proportions. I had two feet of snow that didn't melt off until March last year. This year I've had several one-inch "storms" that just blew by SLC, and the ground is clear, as usual. I usually don't get the inversions, and enjoy more sunshine all winter.

Our reservoirs are all full as it is, and I know the water bills will be raised this summer claiming the drought as the cause and all that, anyway.

I look at NOAA website data almost every day, and have been an avid follower of weather since I was a kid. We are moving into a stronger sunspot activity situation, and we have a "standing wave" phenomenon with a jet stream that has been very steadily in place, dumping on Alaska and re-building the Arctic ice. It's called the Atlantic Oscillation by some meterologists, but this one has been particular strong. I've been looking at the Pacific Ocean temps and have seen a recent increase in the temps in the zone west of Mexico, from Cabo San Lucas southward and west towards Hawaii.

And yes, things are changing now to favor storms moving in on us. It's the very early stages of an El Nino, which always begins in the spring months and continues for a year or two. I'll be out planting new fields this spring.
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Okay, so are you saying we're not going to get much snow over the next month or two? I'm in NJ. Give me your predictions Nostradumbass.
 
LogGrad98 said:
In Reno we have not had a single snowstorm or rainstorm since early September. Very weird. It has been bitter cold, but no precipitation at all.
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Well we got our first snowstorm of the winter yesterday. It didn't stick, but it dropped the temperature another 15 degrees.
 
One Brow said:
Eery three years or so I remind people that cold, snowy weather in the US is not disproof of global warming. The flipside is that a warm, dry winter is not proof of it.
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hey, that warning isn't due for another year and a half...

I'm calling foul on this post.
 
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