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Post by Crunch41 on Apr 29, 2023 15:24:15 GMT -5
Friday was a nice, dry spring day here.
Rainfall is below or above normal depending on how far you go back.
Last 7 days is Below, 0.25", not counting today.
Month to date is Below 1.91" vs 3.60.
Year to date is Above 12.26 vs 9.41
Since May 1st of last year, Above 37.55 vs 34.31
Totals are for Milwaukee, but Madison has the same general trend.
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Post by sari on Apr 29, 2023 15:41:48 GMT -5
I'm sure it's been posted here a thousand times, but I've heard "it's [place], if you don't like the weather give it 15 minutes, it'll change" three separate times today. One moment please while I put a railroad spike through my eardrums.
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Post by Crunch41 on Apr 29, 2023 17:26:31 GMT -5
One moment please while I put a railroad spike through my eardrums. That reminds me of the story of Phineas Gage, who had a large metal rod go through his head back in the 1800's. He survived but was a different person after that. |
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Apr 29, 2023 22:27:58 GMT -5
It came up in shoutbox today. Many of us agreed that sunshine hours are a fucking stupid stat. Who gives a fuck about sunshine hours? I want to know what % of the time it will be sunny, and xxx sunshine hours in a month means literally nothing to me as all places vary in daylength. Plus, for agriculture, it's important to know the sun angle and total radiation.
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Post by Benfxmth on Apr 30, 2023 9:35:46 GMT -5
It came up in shoutbox today. Many of us agreed that sunshine hours are a fucking stupid stat. Who gives a fuck about sunshine hours? I want to know what % of the time it will be sunny, and xxx sunshine hours in a month means literally nothing to me as all places vary in daylength. Plus, for agriculture, it's important to know the sun angle and total radiation. Indeed. The Scandinavians in here used to use raw sunshine hours as a boteving tactic. "Wow, there's 360 out of 650 possible sunshine hours, so it must be sunny!" |
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Post by MET on Apr 30, 2023 10:43:16 GMT -5
Someone on netweather in particular: It's T shirt and shorts weather when it's rully rully cold.
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Post by Ariete on Apr 30, 2023 12:37:00 GMT -5
Indeed. The Scandinavians in here used to use raw sunshine hours as a boteving tactic. "Wow, there's 360 out of 650 possible sunshine hours, so it must be sunny!"
It's because our met agencies report sunshine as hours and not as percentages.
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Post by tommyFL on May 12, 2023 16:55:00 GMT -5
TIL that every thunderstorm in Colorado has hail, and that people had to escape the city to avoid the deadly hail. It's a miracle anyone survived.  |
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Post by B87 on May 15, 2023 12:44:36 GMT -5
That we should enjoy a sunny 15-16c day in the middle of May after weeks and weeks of below average temperatures, rain and cloud, and that the terrible conditions that have plagued us for weeks are 'normal'.
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Post by greysrigging on May 17, 2023 4:38:35 GMT -5
This why we ( the general AU weather nerd ) despises the sensationalised social media weather platforms....  |
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Post by cawfeefan on May 20, 2023 22:11:32 GMT -5
This is more about a Google search rather than what someone said, but I laughed out loud when I saw THAT particular city appear on the list. I get it's because of the extreme heatwaves, but still funny to see it on the list.  |
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Post by Beercules on May 21, 2023 2:25:22 GMT -5
What a hilarious anomoly against cities that are actually hot
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Post by tommyFL on Jun 14, 2023 21:26:57 GMT -5
Braindead Californians can't wrap their head around the fact that mean temperatures are defined by more factors than cloud cover and pseudo-cold max temps.
San Francisco was a gargantuan 0.5 F below normal in May, entirely due to max temps. Mins were 2 F warmer than normal, but the general populace has been conditioned to ignore them. The mean temp departure is in line with the near-normal temps shown on the NOAA gridded data these are in response to.
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Post by Benfxmth on Jun 15, 2023 6:38:21 GMT -5
Braindead Californians can't wrap their head around the fact that mean temperatures are defined by more factors than cloud cover and pseudo-cold max temps. San Francisco was a gargantuan 0.5 F below normal in May, entirely due to max temps. Mins were 2 F warmer than normal, but the general populace has been conditioned to ignore them. The mean temp departure is in line with the near-normal temps shown on the NOAA gridded data these are in response to. Also lol @ "manipulating and redefining data to fit a narrative", as if one knows better than everyone else who pays more attention to weather data |
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Post by rozenn on Jun 27, 2023 17:58:51 GMT -5
Lmao the bullcrap you read sometimes:  |
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Post by MET on Jul 2, 2023 9:36:58 GMT -5
When I was a teenager, we used to get long rambling family letters from some old friends of the family from time to time. I distinctly remember one letter in which they were voicing their opinions about global warming or climate change or something. They got their wires crossed a bit, because the actual quote I recall was word for word: "We don't believe in the greenhouse effect".
I think they meant to say "anthropogenic global warming". Without the greenhouse effect the planet would be freezing cold and there'd be no life on it.
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Post by Ethereal on Jul 7, 2023 9:05:35 GMT -5
So Sydney is tropical according to this map:  Lol |
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Post by firebird1988 on Jul 7, 2023 14:55:57 GMT -5
So Sydney is tropical according to this map: Lol That's one of the worst climate zone maps I've ever seen, like what a 2nd grader would create |
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Post by Ariete on Jul 8, 2023 5:17:00 GMT -5
Motueka subtropical confirmed.
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Post by cawfeefan on Jul 8, 2023 6:08:02 GMT -5
Montana is a subtropical paradise
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