well it is slowly starting to return to normal temperatures, it's zero right now, with a -7 windchill...
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Bomb cyclone? I know it's a serious storm and all. But I swear the weather channel just make up these titles for click bait. I guess they've started naming winter storms now, the way they name hurricanes. A couple years ago I heard that we got hit by "Winter Storm Nyla." But nobody called it that. We called it "March in Wyoming."
well, the furnace parts did not come in today either, at this point, I'm blaming the storm, where ever they were coming from...
we ended up talking to the hvac company owner, and at no charge, they had a senior tech come out, and double check the furnace, and restart it, and showed me how to reset it, if the house reaches the set temperature, and shuts it off, and it won't restart... it's taken a couple hours, being so cold in all the corners, but the living room just hit 67 degrees, with the furnace running for an hour and a half, fire place is still burning, but all the electric heaters are off finall...
we ended up talking to the hvac company owner, and at no charge, they had a senior tech come out, and double check the furnace, and restart it, and showed me how to reset it, if the house reaches the set temperature, and shuts it off, and it won't restart... it's taken a couple hours, being so cold in all the corners, but the living room just hit 67 degrees, with the furnace running for an hour and a half, fire place is still burning, but all the electric heaters are off finall...
In Canada, our main sources are the Weather Network (private), and Environment Canada (Government). As someone who lives in a place with volatile weather, I find the contrast between them interesting.
Environment Canada sticks to the science. They'll say snow is coming, but won't say how much until they have a real, grounded idea. The same with heat, cold, etc.
The Weather Network often predicts some apocalyptic mega-storm 5 to 7 days away. As it gets closer, it vanishes and another one appears the same time distance off. It predicts huge snowfalls days in advance, then downgrades them. They want elderly people watching on TV, and younger people refreshing their web pages over and over. I figure you can check in the morning, once, and I believe the meteorologists when they say 5 days off is unreliable. But there are people who watch this, and the weather presenters used to be like celebrities.
The Weather Network's entertainment, and like the entertainment news corporations, they know worry keeps the worried watching.
When I see a prediction of a weather bomb type storm, I figure we'll know if it's true a day or two before. I look out in the Bay a day before and if I see ships coming in and anchoring - they have excellent resources and no time for sensationalist weather celebrities. Anchoring costs money, and they're serious about that.
I love a good storm and could get into it. I don't take it as far as people who look forward to apocalyptic events and real destruction, but there is a lot of that about.
Environment Canada sticks to the science. They'll say snow is coming, but won't say how much until they have a real, grounded idea. The same with heat, cold, etc.
The Weather Network often predicts some apocalyptic mega-storm 5 to 7 days away. As it gets closer, it vanishes and another one appears the same time distance off. It predicts huge snowfalls days in advance, then downgrades them. They want elderly people watching on TV, and younger people refreshing their web pages over and over. I figure you can check in the morning, once, and I believe the meteorologists when they say 5 days off is unreliable. But there are people who watch this, and the weather presenters used to be like celebrities.
The Weather Network's entertainment, and like the entertainment news corporations, they know worry keeps the worried watching.
When I see a prediction of a weather bomb type storm, I figure we'll know if it's true a day or two before. I look out in the Bay a day before and if I see ships coming in and anchoring - they have excellent resources and no time for sensationalist weather celebrities. Anchoring costs money, and they're serious about that.
I love a good storm and could get into it. I don't take it as far as people who look forward to apocalyptic events and real destruction, but there is a lot of that about.
I thought that was just plain silly when they started that . I don’t think it’s catching on either .
They started naming storms in Europe 10 years ago. The UK, Republic of Ireland or the Netherlands in our grouping gets to choose the name then the other countries it passes though use the same name. If we get the end of a hurricane which has been named in the US, the name is kept when it arrives here as a storm.
From the UK Met Office website
From the UK Met Office website
So you have a lot of Alastair's , Lionel’s and Norman’s then I suppose ?
Well, the names for storms for winter 2025 to 2026 are:
Amy, Bram, Chandra, Dave, Eddie, Fionnuala, Gerard, Hannah, Isla, Janna, Kasia, Lilith, Marty, Nico, Oscar, Patrick, Ruby, Stevie, Tadhg, Violet, Wubbo.
The 'typical' names would have been used up a long time ago.
We never get half way through the year's list though. We got to Chandra at the beginning of this week but there have been storms named by other grouping which affected the UK (Benjamin named by France, Claudia named by Spain both between Amy and Bram, and Goretti named by France between Bram and Chandra)
Amazing the trivia you can find out there
Amy, Bram, Chandra, Dave, Eddie, Fionnuala, Gerard, Hannah, Isla, Janna, Kasia, Lilith, Marty, Nico, Oscar, Patrick, Ruby, Stevie, Tadhg, Violet, Wubbo.
The 'typical' names would have been used up a long time ago.
We never get half way through the year's list though. We got to Chandra at the beginning of this week but there have been storms named by other grouping which affected the UK (Benjamin named by France, Claudia named by Spain both between Amy and Bram, and Goretti named by France between Bram and Chandra)
Amazing the trivia you can find out there
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I just looked at the monthly projections on my weather app through August. I don't know how they come up with these projections but the Farmer's Almanac has been doing it with accuracy for just about forever.
One would sort of expect that, with how mild this winter has been in Wyoming, we would be looking at a really hot summer but not so. The projections show highs never reaching 90 F for the entire summer. Normally we have some summer days hitting 100+ F
Here is most of the August projection.
One would sort of expect that, with how mild this winter has been in Wyoming, we would be looking at a really hot summer but not so. The projections show highs never reaching 90 F for the entire summer. Normally we have some summer days hitting 100+ F
Here is most of the August projection.
Crimony pup ! I was hoping for the hottest and most oppressively hot weather ever . I run better in the heat . Keeps me limber .
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Who knows what it will actually be, but it has been pretty accurate the few years I've been looking.
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@Back in the fold , here is most of the August projection for Billings. Looks pretty close to the same as Sheridan.
That works too Jay . Should be a good year for gardening .
Temperature right now at 2 am is -7F. Wind chill is -24 F. Brrrrr
And another point is that we dodged a bullet as a northeaster snow storm will miss us by 50 miles. Could have been a huge storm.
And another point is that we dodged a bullet as a northeaster snow storm will miss us by 50 miles. Could have been a huge storm.
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