Earlier today I found a picture of the large storm that is currently pounding the west coast of the US, and I thought people here might like it (seeing as how the recent eclipse thread has garnered some appreciable interest).
It's been raining here almost nonstop today and the wind has been gusting to about 50 mph.
Ooh yeah, it's a biggie all right!
Wonder if it was an exaggaration, but some norwegian documentary said that [some coastline area I don't remember in Norway] has weather like Catharina all year.
Is it normally pretty stormy in Norway? I know the latitude is much higher than here, but I think ocean currents make the weather in Northern Europe relatively mild compared to that of Northern North America (that's why even though countries like France are at the same latitude as Newfoundland, they have a much more hospitable climate).
Well whenever I travel abroad the weather does seem (unatural) calm to me, but I don't know.
If the warm weather continues throughout february it will be the warmest (dec-febr) 3-month period since measurements began in 1756; the area in question is Stockholm and further down the east coast of Sweden. My hometown is on the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. It's 2 degrees Celcius here atm. The seasons first snow fell on new years eve but it melted away in a week.
The most northern part of Sweden is above the arctic circle at (circa) latitude 68. It's most southern part is at (circa) latitude 56.
Ahh... I think you might have a similar climate to Juneau, as it is not very cold there (at least compared to inland locations of the same latitude). It probably has to do with being on the west coast of a large continent, there's that maritime-type climate that keeps things from getting to extreme. At least when it comes to temperatures... They get some extremely fierce (and wet) storms up there.
It's called the Gulf stream.
The weather in the UK changes hourly...
Bright and sunny at 10am.
Heavy snow by tea time.
I find weather (especially extreme weather) facinating.
Yes, meteorology used to be one of my obsessions when I was in middle school (I was convinced I wanted to be a meteorologist as an adult), but here in coastal California the weather is quite boring. It's just sunny, hot, and dry during the summer and cool and rainy in the winter with very little variation. We get small thunderstorms maybe once every two years, and even the big storm that hit a couple days ago didn't have any thunder/lighting at all.
I like watching how the simple thunderstorms that roll off the west coast of Africa organize themselves into huge, complex tropical storm systems.
The temperature throughout the year varies from minus 15 degrees Celcius (or +5 F); it has dropped as low as minus 25, but it's a rarity. Summer temperatures can rise as high as 30 (or +86 F). There have been periods were the temperature has stayed above 20 degrees round the clock (or +68 F); if that is the same as 'tropical summer' or if that only means that the median temperature of several days must be 20 degrees or higher is beyond my knowledge.
Above post is around where I live. In Sweden; the coldest I know is minus 53 degrees Celcius. The hottest that I can think of is 33.9 (or +91 F).
Extreme weather is my favorite too; excluding storms, thunder and lightnin. In city storms there's the risk of flying objects that can cut my body in two; not funny. I don't like the noise of thunder and I've been out too many times in lightnin to not wanting to be out there again. Heavy rains pounding down and creating little nameless rivers is just fun. Extreme high or low water is also of my prefference. Heavy snowfalls that last for days is sadly not to common.
Earlier today I found a picture of the large storm that is currently pounding the west coast of the US,
Wow....
Interesting storm off the coast of California…..
Last week we went to Ocean Shores on the coast of Washington. The weather was quite mild for February, which is actually typical here for a couple of weeks in February -- then it is back to wind and rain until May…. (The ground-hog always sees its shadow here) ;-)
During our trip back we stopped by Lake Quinalt where some of the largest trees in the world are (so they say). We were only able to see the 1000-year-old Sitka Spruce, since the trails leading to the worlds largest Cedar and Douglas fir were impassible because of the hurricane-force winds that occurred there last December, which ravaged the coast up to 20 miles inland.
There was an article in today’s paper that spoke to the fact that there was enough timber knocked down to build 20,000 new homes, and that salvage operations are underway to harvest the fallen trees.
Article: -Windstorm's wrath forces emergency harvest-
Here, we usually worry more about earthquakes than ‘hurricanes’…. But after looking at that image off California, and the recent 'blow' on our own coast... well... ‘Global warming’ might mean more than just ‘warming’… So, batten down the hatches!!! Get your snorkels ready!…
Perhaps not... We had a terrible storm in 1962 on 'Columbus day', nasty it was... killed 46, and made what happened on our coast recently look like just a puff... Though one interesting fact about the recent event was its intensity... 157 mph was recorded at one site... (unheard of around here)...
...Though one interesting fact about the recent event was its intensity... 157 mph was recorded at one site... (unheard of around here)...
oops... it was actually 147 mph...
PDF of Coastal winds