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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2021 16:43:30 GMT
Where I live in South Central Texas doesn't get much annual rain, and rarely sees snow or temps far below freezing. I believe the last snow we had was roughly three years ago and might have been an inch deep.
This morning, it was a blazing -12.777 C out with four to six inches of snow on the ground. Snow is also expected at least one if not two more times in the next three days, which is even more unusual in this area [thanks a lot Polar Vortex].
As the spouse put it; "Hell, it froze over."
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Post by BlueAndGold on Feb 15, 2021 16:48:35 GMT
So, you're admitting Texas is Hell?  |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2021 16:51:10 GMT
So, you're admitting Texas is Hell? We live one floor above Hell from what the spouse says, though she grew up at 5,000' elevation with cold and snowy winters. |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Feb 15, 2021 17:33:24 GMT
I lived in El Paso for a little while in the mid-70's. It was nice then, as was Las Cruces. I was down there just a few years ago and found it to have changed significantly for the worse. Las Cruces is now like Los Angeles used to be. There is little or no gap between there and El Paso, and El Paso / Juarez is a war zone. Creepy.
I do like it down around the Ft. Davis / Marpa area.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2021 17:56:52 GMT
Once the kids are older we'll take them to Big Bend to hike.
We can see San Antonio lights at night over the ridge to our east which twenty miles as crows fly is as close as we need to be most of the time. I tend to enjoy seeing large cities in the rear-view now. Too often it's too many people crowded too close together in too big a hurry to get somewhere first to do nothing much of importance.
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Post by benziger on Feb 15, 2021 22:07:08 GMT
@cameron, I thought of you on Sunday when the paper wrote a six-week weather forecast. First about this whirlwind that usually holds the cold together at the North Pole, which collapsed on 5 January. Then about stratospheric research. The cold wave "not only in Europe, but also in America with snow as far away as Mexico". And then the little that can be deduced from the stratosphere: probably winter until the end of March and spring only in April. But since stratospheric research has been severely neglected in recent years, everything remains uncertain.
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Post by potet on Feb 15, 2021 22:25:30 GMT
Why worry? Climate freaks have predicted the temperature will rise until the ice caps are melted, and the coastal cities flooded.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 15, 2021 22:33:01 GMT
Back in the 80s there were winters when homeless people froze to death in San Antonio, and I suspect that's happened again since the social safety net has been sorely neglected here since Reagan was president. Back in 76 I was living around 100 miles further north and it got down to -12.222 C.
At any rate it's going to warm back up here starting tomorrow after another frigid night with the low down around -12.777 C again.
The Spring part of Spummerall usually starts here around late February, back in 2013 when the spouse was first stationed in San Antonio it hit 37.777 C in February. Typically though we see temperatures around 23.8889 C.
The stratospheric wind patterns that normally contain the Polar Vortex aren't immune to Global Warming, hence destabilized weather patterns having South Central Texas seeing temperatures that haven't normally been seen around here in decades.
Glad I brought the Improved Meyer Lemons [potted] indoors before the bad cold hit as they start taking damage around -6.666 C. I'll be watching the olive tree, though with luck it will survive since it's below the ridge crest our house sits on so it wasn't getting hit as bad by wind chill.
I suspect my oldest brother isn't so happy living where seasons happen [506 miles north], as it's -14.4444 C there at the moment with a forecast low tonight of -21.6667 C.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 16, 2021 0:32:57 GMT
Half a dozen mini-rolling-blackouts later, dinner is cooking again, kids in bed, and semi-feral kats complaining they shouldn't suffer cold like this because we ticked someone off.
The story working around the back of my mind should be interesting, given more fuel for thought by the last few days. The good news is I'm not as sore as I could be after slipping and falling on an ice-slicked paver yesterday. The bad news is I need new glasses now, since yesterday's slip broke my recent prescription.
Life is what happens after you've made other plans. At least der drei kinder got to see snow and cold...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 9:07:19 GMT
The ups and downs of snow---- Your 3 children had fun in the snow, but then you get the horrors of ice on the pavements. I'm glad it wasn't too bad a fall Retread-Retired-Cameron |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 16, 2021 16:50:18 GMT
The kids did have fun, pounding the snow on the porch so it would be hard ice after refreezing. Since there was ice on the steps before it snowed they get to stay on the porch until things thaw out.
Maybe I'll go to town tomorrow, depending upon how much snow we get tonight. People who've only lived and driven in these here parts don't know how to drive on snow or ice and I don't feel like being part of an inexperienced driver's learning curve. People who won't slow down for rain don't tend to drive any better on snow.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 18, 2021 18:40:07 GMT
More snow falling -- I'm ready for the winter wonderland to be further north.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Feb 19, 2021 1:11:25 GMT
It IS further north! Always has been!
I got four inches last night, thank goodness. We've been very dry around here.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 15:56:48 GMT
Where I live in South Central Texas doesn't get much annual rain, and rarely sees snow or temps far below freezing. I believe the last snow we had was roughly three years ago and might have been an inch deep.
This morning, it was a blazing -12.777 C out with four to six inches of snow on the ground. Snow is also expected at least one if not two more times in the next three days, which is even more unusual in this area [thanks a lot Polar Vortex].
As the spouse put it; "Hell, it froze over."
I was stunned to see on the television the snow in Texas  |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 19, 2021 17:26:30 GMT
Snow can be pretty, but in an area where most of the infrastructure isn't set up for 25 / 50 / 100 year events it gets dangerous in a hurry.
We have camping gear which we could have used for cooking and heating had we needed to do so without worrying about carbon monoxide poisoning. We keep capped water jugs full for when the water goes out which happens at times.
People who don't have the camping gear, some results weren't so good. In two to three weeks there should be a better idea on how many people froze to death, died from running cars in garages or using charcoal indoors to warm houses, and so on.
My oldest brother [up in Oklahoma City] told me they received 38 cm of snow and lows down to -26.666 C. Both of us feel sad for the people who just never learned how to survive without electricity, running water, and amenities all the time, because that lack of knowledge can be deadly.
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