Current Storms

[TorchMach]

I hear a lot of stuff on the news about global warming, then I see you guys post pictures of the winter storms last year. Then I see the drought we have going on over here...

My question is, do you guys feel that our current weather/storms are normal or more powerful? I know weather is subject to change, that's what weather is but it seem's winter is lasting a little longer for those of you up north and for us here in California, it seem's summer is just dragging on. (102 degrees today)

Let's hear it, what is your opinion? I don't want to make this a global warming thread, but more of your actual life experience.

 

[TK Doom]

In San Diego, the last 3 summers have been really mild...I'm thinking its just a bit of a circle of weather type thing.

Bought a new house in 2012 (in Encinitas), didn't need AC at all, its a two-story, but older house with only whole house AC. didnt' have to run it at all. Last year, had to run it a bit...this year...ran it 30 days straight...set to 73 downstairs to keep upstairs livable.

We have new baby, so its not like we can rough it...we're already losing sleep.

but yeah, make a thread next year...then we'll see!

 

[FIVEHOE]

no different than its always been for the most part... but then again it is AZ

 

[Weather Man]

Really hope we don't get dropped in the meat locker this winter. Last winter was relentlessly unbearable.

 

[Camaro_94]

The north east is probably going to get bent over this year with snow and cold temps.

 

[Prototype007]

This past winter in KY was miserably cold and the summer has been very mild.

 

[aarons04cobra]

The north east is probably going to get bent over this year with snow and cold temps.

oh ya we are! Its already getting cold up here and dropping down to freezing temps at night. Snow is on the horizon very soon. I think New England is going to get nailed this winter.

 

[xblitzkriegx]

Really hope we don't get dropped in the meat locker this winter. Last winter was relentlessly unbearable.

hell yeah it was. -50 windchill and -30 actual temp can kiss my frostbitten ass. nothing like having your eyelashes freeze because you yawned outside.

 

[derklug]

By the end of the snowfall last year, my snowblower could barely get the snow over the piles next to driveway. I really don't want to have to get a bigger one for this year.

 

[Machdup1]

Easily the most pleasantly cool summer I can remember on the heals of the coldest winter I can remember. Man made global is a myth.

 

[VegasMichael]

One of the mildest summers in Las Vegas I can recall and I've been here 20 years.

 

[Camaro_94]

We need to figure out ways to get this whole global warming thing started

 

[ON D BIT]

Temperatures in general have gone down the last few years. In the last 40 years temps have .5 degree Celsius.

 

[Mr. Mach-ete]

Last winter I have never worked in cold like that in these parts. If I remember correctly we had daytime highs of 5* for days on end.

 

[skwerl]

There was severe weather extremes occurring long before any of us were born. All the global warming hype is a bunch of crap designed to allow individuals in charge to profit greatly.

Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

 

[TorchMach]

From the sounds of it, everything is pretty normal except for NE winters are getting colder...I shouldn't worry then.

 

[TorchMach]

In San Diego, the last 3 summers have been really mild...I'm thinking its just a bit of a circle of weather type thing.

Bought a new house in 2012 (in Encinitas), didn't need AC at all, its a two-story, but older house with only whole house AC. didnt' have to run it at all. Last year, had to run it a bit...this year...ran it 30 days straight...set to 73 downstairs to keep upstairs livable.

We have new baby, so its not like we can rough it...we're already losing sleep.

but yeah, make a thread next year...then we'll see!

SD definitely has the best weather in California no doubt.

Yeah I hear if this winter is dry again, next summer a lot of cities are going to lose their water...

 

[hoamskilet]

Last winter I have never worked in cold like that in these parts. If I remember correctly we had daytime highs of 5* for days on end.

Same here. Here was actually a few days they had us just stay inside because of dangerous windchills

 

[03cobra#694]

We'll, this has nothing to do with you guys up north, buts it's suppose to be 62* with low humidity in the morning here. Big difference from 75 and 95% that we've been rocking in the Am's.

 

[thomas91169]

I stopped paying attention to the bullshit climatologists.

Listen to Joe Rogan experience #501 with Randall Carlson. If you are worried about warming, don't. It's far better than what is more likely to come, and that's another ice age. Every great expansion if human civilization was due to warming trends, and every recession in population due to cooling.

And the earth has been way warmer with more co2 eons ago before humans were even a blip on the screen.

In San Diego, the last 3 summers have been really mild...I'm thinking its just a bit of a circle of weather type thing.

Bought a new house in 2012 (in Encinitas), didn't need AC at all, its a two-story, but older house with only whole house AC. didnt' have to run it at all. Last year, had to run it a bit...this year...ran it 30 days straight...set to 73 downstairs to keep upstairs livable.

We have new baby, so its not like we can rough it...we're already losing sleep.

but yeah, make a thread next year...then we'll see!

We moved here last year. Last summer was alright, this summer has been ruthless. Of course half the apt complex have no AC. people say every summer for the past 4-5yrs have been getting progressively warmer. If it keeps up with housing costs and hot weather it's not worth it to live here, if places like TX aren't much hotter. We talk to some people and they said about a decade or so ago and past was the best time to live here because it never got over mid 70s and was very consistent throughout the year.