Topic: Weather (Read 62128 times)

Thad · « **on:** March 25, 2008, 12:19:37 AM »

It's currently 79 in here. At 1:15 AM. In late March.

If it's like this again tomorrow, fuck this saving on the electricity bill shit, the AC's going on. If Brad doesn't like it he can up my rent.

Really what I need is a way to leave my bedroom door open without letting the cats in. Unfortunately, cats are not dogs, so that's not an easy prospect; putting a fucking screen door inside the house does not seem like a reasonable undertaking (though it's totally the sort of thing Brad would do). Maybe I can find some bitter-smelling spray to coat the entrance with.

...Weather report says it's going to cool down a few degrees starting Thursday.

But if it's like this in March, I am not looking forward to July.

...On the plus side, March is the perfect time of year to have a bed next to a window.

And on the less-plus side, even once July rolls around, at least it's a window on the north side of the house, not the east or west.

...Another thing I'm going to need to remember is to start brewing my coffee at night and throwing it in the fridge. It is getting too hot for hot beverages.

Dooly · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:33:42 AM »

Why, it's just jim-dandy up in Washington.

Thad · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:35:52 AM »

Yeah? Any good Comp Sci grad programs up that way?

EDIT: Not related to weather, but related to my extreme difficulty in getting some fucking sleep tonight and resultant foul mood:

Was pouring myself my last glass of water before bed. Dropped it. It shattered.

As I was on my way to bed, my contacts were out, making it much more difficult to sweep up all the shards than it would have been with them in. (I am planning on picking up a pair of glasses, for occasions such as this, on Friday. I was going to get them LAST Friday, but then during the squiggly-line portion of the eye test, I kept seeing squiggly lines that weren't actually there, most likely as a result of being viciously hungover, so they want me to come back and take it again. I did not tell the doctor that I was viciously hungover, but inasmuch as she was staring directly into my eyeballs with a bright light and a magnifying glass, I am guessing she could tell.)

It was a nice glass, too. Arrogant Bastard-branded.

And both trash and recycle were full, so I had to grab a new bag. Left the full one standing next to the fridge; will take care of it in the morning.

Plus that was the last of the cold water. I think we have a bag of ice in the freezer, but I am reluctant to smash it on a floor which may still have undetected shards of broken glass on it.

On the plus side, it scared the bejesus out of the cats. (The cats are stupid. They ran TOWARD the scary noise.) But then, I could have scared them just by sneezing. Lord knows I'll be doing plenty of that for the next month or two. Which I guess brings us back to the topic of weather.

Anyway. I'm fairly confident there are still tiny shards of broken glass on the kitchen floor. If I'm really lucky, there may still be a couple stuck to my hands; managed to jab myself on one I couldn't see earlier.

Arc · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2008, 07:01:44 AM »

Woke up. 23 outside.

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

François · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:22:04 AM »

There are still piles of snow taller than I am outside. And I'm pretty fucking tall. I hear the last time we reached Easter with this much snow still around was over two hundred years ago. This winter was brutal; they even shut down all the schools in Montréal last week so they could shovel the snow off the roofs to make sure they wouldn't collapse.

Dammit global warming I am trying really bad to believe in you but you are not making this easy at all.

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:53:15 AM »

Freakish unexpected weather makes startling human caused climate change hard to believe in?

Classic · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:56:38 AM »

I had always thought that the bad part about Global Warming was not the 2-4 degree rise in average temperature in under a century. But the arable land devastating redistribution of water.

Upon further consideration, this is completely uninformed conjecture.

I-I am going to do some reading.

Thad · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2008, 11:11:13 AM »

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

"Global warming" is a misleading term; there's a reason people are trying to replace it with "climate change". A freakishly hot winter in one place can cause a freakishly cold one in another. As Classic notes, the "warming" refers to the average temperature of the entire planet.

Fredward · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:40:52 PM »

Normally, I would call the "The Best Place on Earth" title on our license plates overdoing it, but with this weather...

(just look at Dooly's picture; I'm across the border, grinning)

Catloaf · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:45:33 PM »

Michigan: Most snow this winter ever recorded. No one noticed however due to the fact that 60% of it melted away every five days. There was maybe two straight weeks that it didn't break freezing at least once as apposed to the usual 7 to 9. THIS IS NOT NORMAL HERE. Also, TOO MUCH FUCKING WIND.

Büge · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2008, 01:06:36 PM »

It's raining sideways here.

François · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2008, 01:35:15 PM »

...that last sentence was me trying to be facetious. I know perfectly well that IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.

:man i still haven't got which emoticons are on which boards figured out yet:

Classic · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2008, 01:42:11 PM »

I was unsure of your "face" for your post. My response is "face-neutral". I can only assume GTH was playing a straight man.

:arc_probably_fills_them_in_for_us_when_we're_sleeping:

François · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2008, 02:01:53 PM »

Well, lately, my face is generally something like

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...

However, since the maple syrup season is getting fucked over because the weather's so damn cold, I admit I may become more

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Mongrel · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2008, 03:31:24 PM »

Quote from: Catloaf on March 25, 2008, 12:45:33 PM

Michigan: Most snow this winter ever recorded. No one noticed however due to the fact that 60% of it melted away every five days. There was maybe two straight weeks that it didn't break freezing at least once as apposed to the usual 7 to 9. THIS IS NOT NORMAL HERE.

Same for Toronto all winter. We are only a few centimetres away from breaking the record for third-highest snowfall of any Toronto winter ever... it's been snowing all afternoon, so we might just break that mark today. But yeah, none of it lasted long. It's been fucking slush all winter. Normally it's dry and cold, with some snow.

Thank god I don't like in Buffalo.

Quote from: Dooly on March 25, 2008, 12:33:42 AM

Why, it's just jim-dandy up in Washington.

When I got married in Seattle on Feb 14th, man, the weather was BEAUTIFUL. Perfect 15 degrees. Whatever that is in archaic-measurement-land (60? 55?).

Quote from: ZedPower on March 25, 2008, 02:01:53 PM

maple syrup season is getting fucked over because the weather's so damn cold

Also: Thad has once again reminded me that I am totally mystified as to why anyone would move to AZ. EDIT: Except in the case of people trying to escape CA, because I have NO fucking problem understanding that.

SCD · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2008, 03:46:23 PM »

Quote from: Thad on March 25, 2008, 11:11:13 AM

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

"Global warming" is a misleading term; there's a reason people are trying to replace it with "climate change". A freakishly hot winter in one place can cause a freakishly cold one in another. As Classic notes, the "warming" refers to the average temperature of the entire planet.

The term used for that in the ministry of enviroment is Climate Variability.

Speaking of variability, I just had one of those BC "If you don't like the weather, wait ten minute" days including an appearance by snow and hail.

François · « **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2008, 03:55:13 PM »

The thing about maple syrup is that you need the soil and trees to freeze at night and unfreeze during the day. Now they just don't unfreeze at all.

It's looking grim as long as we have one of the pictured below in front of every house. Those should be long gone by now.

Classic · « **Reply #17 on:** March 25, 2008, 04:21:21 PM »

Global Warming: Causing fucked up snowfalls since 2000?

TA · « **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2008, 05:18:16 PM »

Quote from: Catloaf on March 25, 2008, 12:45:33 PM

Michigan: Most snow this winter ever recorded. No one noticed however due to the fact that 60% of it melted away every five days. There was maybe two straight weeks that it didn't break freezing at least once as apposed to the usual 7 to 9. THIS IS NOT NORMAL HERE. Also, TOO MUCH FUCKING WIND.

Y'know, I was actually up in Michigan this past weekend, I was in Ann Arbor on Friday trying to drive through that stuff. What astounded me was not how much there was - it's the Frozen North, I expected that. What astounded me was how fucking unprepared the city seemed to be. I mean, that there would be huge snow was known well in advance, and yet when it hit, the roads were unsalted, and there weren't plows for hours. Fucking Virginia is better prepared for snowfall than what I saw there.

Arc · « **Reply #19 on:** March 25, 2008, 06:55:20 PM »

One need only witness Michigan's track record toward maintaining forestation & high grass by their highways to see they have yet to embrace the taming of nature.

Savages.

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