SteveB Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 It's the rare occasion to see Magic Bubbles / Soap Bubbles freeze in mid air ... I never managed to get one frozen bigger than about 2 inches ... 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 18 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: So much for easing into winter here in the Houston Texas area. The forecast calls for a low temperature of 16F. I spent the afternoon chasing two sheets down the street because I had not properly weighted them down. (The sheets are meant to protect a few tender plants that probably won't survive the cold). Hopefully, everyone affected by this extreme weather is staying safe and warm. got down to 16f (-8c) here near New Braunfels,TX last night with 20 mph winds. we have a heat pump with heat strips and it just stopped for the 1st time since late last night. ugh. and all our plants are dead. sheets blew off last night a like-heck I was going out in that to recover them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Blue skies, smiling at me... ...Nothing but blue skies, do I see! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 9 hours ago, mizapf said: Remember that I am located at 51°N, the same latitude as Calgary. Haha... and meanwhile in Calgary it's -19C (-2F) right now, expected to hit -30C (-22F) tonight. But, this is also predicted to be the worst day of our cold snap, we're due to get back to a more normal and balmy -5C (23F) by Sunday. The swings here are crazy, never before lived in a place that would regularly swing the mercury 40 degrees in two days. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 hour ago, hloberg said: got down to 16f (-8c) here near New Braunfels,TX last night with 20 mph winds. we have a heat pump with heat strips and it just stopped for the 1st time since late last night. ugh. and all our plants are dead. sheets blew off last night a like-heck I was going out in that to recover them. I had my complete outdoor heat pump unit replaced last spring. Then 2 months later the blower motor in the attic went out. And all this happened after the condenser above the kitchen in the attic leaked all though the kitchen ceiling.. Yes..it's been fun. Sorry to hear about that heat pump... switch to individual wall heaters for now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidC Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Syracuse NY was 43f this morning and raining...now it's 9f and windy (50 mph gusts) and snowing and everything is covered in ice... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Tursi said: we're due to get back to a more normal and balmy -5C (23F) by Sunday. shorts and T-shirt weather! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 6 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: shorts and T-shirt weather! And running through the sprinklers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Weather Channel says: 25 degrees, feels like 15 here in Hawthorne, FL - Dang it Jim (Star Trek Reference), we should move to Florida. er.. Uh... Well nice day for indoor work anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 Here still rising today, 12°C (54°F). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 9 hours ago, mizapf said: Here still rising today, 12°C (54°F). you are warmer than here in S.central Tx. at high 38F (3.3C). I never considered Germany a good place for a warm Winter vacation but... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 A section of our neighborhood lost power at 9:30am today and it was restored 7 hours later. Fortunately, the sun was out and the inside temps never dropped below 55. Muscle memory had me trying to turn on lights in the darker rooms. We used one of my APC1500s for powering the internet, phones, and an LED lamp. We were fortunate as it looks like the East and Northeast US are not faring as well right now. https://poweroutage.us/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted December 25, 2022 Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 1 hour ago, hloberg said: you are warmer than here in S.central Tx. at high 38F (3.3C). I never considered Germany a good place for a warm Winter vacation but... Honestly, I'd rather have 10 degrees less and some snow, as it should be typical for winter time. Don't expect that at 10°C you have some mild sunny day ... instead, it's often raining long with overcast skies, and it's getting dark around 16:30 just because of the thick clouds. While in the States, the winters are becoming more extreme, in central Europe we observe the opposite. Snow in December has become rare, and in some years we had only a couple of days below zero (freezing) in the whole winter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 My outdoor thermometer is displaying 0.0F! ❄️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 January temperatures here: (temp in °C) WinterNotFoundException 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Yesterday I was at my daughters place about one hour drive north of Toronto. When we got up in the morning it was -27 C (almost 17 below F) Haven't felt that for years. Don't need to feel it for many more. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 When I was in Hetta (where I shot that aurora picture in the other thread), we started at about -19°C (-2°F) on the first day, then continued with -10°C (+14°F) for some more days, and ended with -5°C (+23°F). Mind that this is at 68°N, that is, above the polar circle (like the Alaskan north coast). The differences are interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 Summer not found either ... In the first half of July, temperatures rose until we had almost tropical nights (July 10), but in the second half we have some occasional sunny interruptions of rainy weather. Typically, August is the warmest month here, so let's see what we get. I call this skin-friendly summer weather (hello to all with skin type 1). (Conversions: 20°C = 68°F, 30°C = 86°F, 40°C = 104°F; temperatures sampled with my self-built ESP32 sensor node). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+H454 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 59 minutes ago, mizapf said: Summer not found either ... I call this skin-friendly summer weather (hello to all with skin type 1). Does that mean almost translucent? Judging by your numbers, The mid-west (Minnesota) has been very similar. The humidity has been going up - probably due to corn coming in. Its just been really dry this year. It may be contributing to the awful allergies this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 7 Author Share Posted April 7 Spring here, temperature at about 21°C (70°F). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 (edited) Today, I was testing out my personal backyard spot for the solar moon event thingy tomorrow. It will be hitting me around 3:19pm EST with 99% coverage. Today, it was perfect with 13c and not a single cloud, sadly for the 2 million plus visitors here sleeping in the hotels and Airbnb tonight for the big event, the weather person is predicting cloudy sky with temperature being only 9c. Either way tomorrow, I will take a picture, hopefully my camera not my eyes will capture something if the clouds are partially gone by the afternoon. Edited April 8 by Gary from OPA bad grammar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 I was pleasantly surprised down here in Dallas. Sky got progressively cloudier until about ten minutes before the main event, when it suddenly cleared up. That said, as frustrating as it was not knowing in advance, "partly sunny" was a hilarious forecast for a solar eclipse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 9 minutes ago, JB said: I was pleasantly surprised down here in Dallas. Sky got progressively cloudier until about ten minutes before the main event, when it suddenly cleared up. That said, as frustrating as it was not knowing in advance, "partly sunny" was a hilarious forecast for a solar eclipse. This is the best it got here, with 99% coverage for about 2 minutes the streetlights came on and the bottom part of the cloudy sky was all dark. And then about 10 minutes after the event all the clouds disappeared and now you can get a sunburn there so much sun out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 https://xkcd.com/2914/ (with the hidden text: "A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky." Very true, from what I saw in 2006.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 We had cloud cover and 95% eclipse coverage. Shortly after the darkest period the winds picked up, loud thunder, lightning, and rain followed. Then we had a tornado watch and tornado warning: the latter was not in our immediate vicinity. It was all quite ominous but not Independence-Day-alien-ship-emerges-from-the-sky ominous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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