Stormfly

Gnat screen a thing here!

It's OK considering the price. For apps they really need a full dark OLED mode.

At 08:43:13 our EDG kicked in because power became unstable. Humming was detected (and heard!) to our NNE. 99% of the time when this happens during fair weather it's a vehicle accident involving a power pole. As of now we're back on the grid. It's ironic as exactly two weeks ago we were getting flurries and the roads were pretreated (brine) the day before. Even though it did rain at 33F last night the ground temps are cold enough to support black ice which as everyone knows is extremely dangerous!

It's easy to get wrapped up once you know something...

It sucked for those that only had a shovel and a bad back!

Cold miser is clearly broken. I'm complaining to the Meister of Johnson Controls. Maybe the dryers are not working and there's a collapsed bellows somewhere.

I'm fine with it TBH. Might as well count days until spring if we are to endure another dumpster fire winter. Legit cold and dry and whenever a system approaches p-type is always liquid. Yuck. The new normal. I guess it could be worse (it can ALWAYS be worse!) as in worrying about what they have in other places such as wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, nuclear disasters, et al.

Well it's all downhill from here, days are getting longer now.

Happy Anniversary! What an amazing time to remember by! That was an amazing weekend here. I wish it lasted longer though. Speaking of a white Christmas forecast, probability of white Christmas here is 100%! https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ca/whale-cove

Wow your oaks still have leaves! Actually that's quite normal. Here in snowless MD our oaks have shed their leaves completely.

1993-94 winter was a mess! Using up 3 weeks of leave by March due to impassible roads (ice) was no fun!

So Santa will be adding a brine tank to that sleigh on Christmas Eve!

Probably because those advisories rarely come to fruition here. We don't have too many wide open areas devoid of wind shadows that would be vulnerable to mixdown events producing legit cat1+ gusts. Of course thunderstorms are the exception. I still have the screen grabs from the CHART cam of the USR40 bridge over the Susquehanna river showing two semis on their side opposing directions just a few hundred feet apart. That was the 03/02/18 event. It is no joke driving a high profile vehicle even in lower grade events. I remember being in a cabover sitting at at light near 50 and 301 when a thunderstorm was blowing through. The winds were probably gusting to near severe threshold (58mph) and it felt like two 800 pound gorillas jumping in tandem on the back. The truck was rocking and rolling and it felt like it was going to tip over! I couldn't imagine going over a bridge and tipping at a 45 degree angle! Going over the side (of the Bay Bridge) is about 185' to the water. Not exactly a survivable ride!

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner

If it's not gonna snow let's do wind! If we have a day or two without lights in exchange for removing 50+ cubic meters of oak and maple leaves I'm all for it! Then again last Saturday my Tempest "haptic rain gauge" recorded a surplus of about 0.08" due to the impact of spruce needles which in its own is amazing since it sits over 40' above ground level! Jan 26, 2011 event I don't want but a Jan 23, 2016 event sounds good. We stayed all snow and got a nice band for the last few hours that netted 37" which was utterly amazing.

Yeah that was wrong place at wrong time plus the gate wasn't locked in. Looked like a man and woman on that bike and they got smacked hard!

Widespread gusts 80+ some close to 100mph in that area now according to Ventusky maps. Not sure if that's legit but holy cow! You can't drive tractors in those conditions at all!

The Derecho didn't affect us at all. We were on the northern fringe. Which was fine by me! Northern VA OTOH was a mess indeed. Sandy also brought wind but we didn't lose power aside from some flickers. Total number of outages in BGE territory similar to the Jan 26, 2011 "Carmageddon" event. (250K) Irene and Isabel seem to be the highest (outage) events with over 700K outages. March 2018 was a very long event too. Fortunately we just don't get widespread winds with full tree canopy. Even so there is too much vegetation impingement in our area.

Rarely do high wind warnings verify here. Even the advisories are fringed. Last legit high impact wind event for us was March 02, 2018. Boy what a mess that was! Last Christmas eve we had legit tropical storm conditions for about 30 minutes. I remember chasing 96 gallon trash bins down the lane after dinner. Could not believe the sound of the rain beating on the door. Last time I heard that was Irene!

Another windy Christmas eve!

Absolutely! We call (nails) tire finders for that reason. Deck screws too. When you have this kind of damage there is wood with fasteners sticking out everywhere making it dangerous to walk without a good pair of boots on as well.

Yes I just saw this. Unreal for this time of the year!

Love to see that happen but it will go poof soon enough. Wishing for that is like wishing your tax bill would be zero.

Book of fail. However for us it was the first trace of snow, trash bins and cars were topped like those over salted ball park soft pretzels.

The forecast for black frost is treacherous driving conditions indeed!