What Is Going On With The Weather?
Anyone else worried about the weather? |
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| I hope everyone has been going to church.
Jussssssssssssssst kidding.   |
| My daughter is going back to college next weekend. Her last day at her temp job is Saturday. They are predicting a Winter storm for next weekend at her destination. That has me worried.
We had many 80 degree days last January. Normal would have been 30s and 40s. |
| Global warming & El Nino....
To be honest, I'm kind of enjoying it. I miss playing in the snow, I love it, but hey, no shoveling, no scraping off my van every morning or warming it up for ten minutes just to go to the store for milk etc... I'm not crazy about the mud, but my yard isn't too bad, I've seen worse, so I can't really complain a whole lot there either. My biggest concern is for the farmers. Cattle dying in Colorado, and then we're going to have to worry more about parasites in warmer areas. Our area doesn't have a problem with heartworm, but this year for the first time ever I may have to put my dogs on meds for it and I hate that idea. Crops normally depend on a good snowcover to provide irrigation and without that, we had better hope it's a wet spring. I think it will be a hot summer too... air conditioning may not be enough... I might have to get another one, so there goes the hydro bill.... |
Willowsprite wrote: Global warming & El Nino....
Absolutely. There are alot of Nay Sayers who don't believe in GLobal warming but if you look at the stats it's pretty clear, the weather IS changing. 10 of the hottest years on record have occurred in the last 14 years. There is another thread on the movie "An Inconvenient Truth", if you haven't seen it it is definately worth watching. If even a fraction of the information provided is accurate it is pretty scarey and I believe that most of it is true. I am not complaining, It's January and I haven't even used a half a tank of propane this winter but it still makes me wonder what the future holds. |
Tasker's Mom wrote: There is another thread on the movie "An Inconvenient Truth", if you haven't seen it it is definately worth watching. If even a fraction of the information provided is accurate it is pretty scarey and I believe that most of it is true.
I posted that thread. |
| HEHEHEHEHE, I know, I ment that for the others |
| Ok so after wearing shorts for a couple of days, tomorrow morning it will be 33 degrees and back up to 68 degrees tomorrow afternoon. No wonder a bunch of folks are getting sick. |
| That's a BIG jump! GOODNESS. Take your multi-vitamins or some Airborne! |
It's happening here too, wacky weather, boiling one day then SNOW on christmas day, go figure that one. 
Hail storms up north the size of golf balls. Mini tornadoes, drought and flooding plains. Really is wacky unseasonal weather around the world. Just seen on the news last night all the bad snow storms in the US and the unseasonal hotter weather in New York, people sun baking & jogging with tops off in Central Park Suppose to be snow there that time of the year & freezing. |
| Supposed to be 37 degrees here tonight and between 76-81 tomorrow.
I have to change clothes like 4 times a day to keep up with the weather  |
| 81??? good grief.
There's a part of AK (the interior) that will be -50 tonight. Where I live, it'll only be -12. Tomorrow, -2 degrees as the high. I'll blow some cold air your way.  |
I am doing a happy dance  about the 81 degrees.
It's been so cold here this winter. |
Th weather has been very wacky this year! I can't remember a winter that has been this mild here in MN... but at least it is letting my plants get a good head start! Hopefully no winter die off this spring 
Quote: It's happening here too, wacky weather, boiling one day then SNOW on christmas day, go figure that one
Lisa, don't I remember reading you wishing for a white christmas in Oz??? Maybe Somebody was listening??? Snow in the middle of your summer though... very very strange! |
Yes I know but it was not around our place on christmas day, Just rain and cold 
It was up in the Alps, Sheesh, but it did help the fire situation there that was raging & still is, so It was an unexpected miracle & saved some small communities with fire on their doorstep, especially in our summer, hot hot hot.  |
| They say patience is a virtue...so I'm not feeling that virtuous these days. Ugh another storm hit us again today , just like the day before...12 storms in total since Nov which is aprox once a week.
Returning home today about 3:30 in preparation for someone coming over to view the last foster kitty in my home...the winds start blowing yet again. Power went out...sigh again..nothing to do but crawl underneath a warm blanket and snooze. I wake up to freezing cold house, dark as night and find a candle to light. Cordless phone is not working, I manage to build a fire in the wood burning fireplace and listen to the continuous sounds of sirens outside. I am worried as my son isn't home and although he has a cell , I don't. 3 hrs later the power comes back on and the person whom I was expecting to see the cat shows up having driven all the way from another municipality. Good news she fell in love with the kitty!! We chat and suddenly I say to her..OMG you'd better head home asap..look at the snow!!!! Yikes..now it looks like a blizzard out there...first the wind, power outage and now snow? I call my son ..he laughs and says he's downstairs and claims he arrived home 20 mins ago. At least he was safe and sound!
I am really disliking this weather so much!! Marianne and the boys |
| Told you should of jumped on that plane
Stay safe Marianne and stay snug and cosy too. Hate to tell you this BUT 36c today, tomorrow is going to be a fry the eggs on the ground day peaking at 39 possibly 40. |
| It finally snowed a bit yesterday, not a lot, only maybe an inch and a half on the ground, but it went from no coat weather to -18 right now.
The snow is nice, the sudden drop in temp I'm not so crazy about! |
| Happy Days are Here!!!
A sprinking of snow, but cold enogh to freeze the ground so the mud is hard! Pups get to romp and run around outside again! They are loving it! It is SOOOOO cute when they run into the house, all panting and breathless with red rosy cheeks! (Well, I lied about the cheeks..but you get the picture...  )
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| Yikes it hasn't been 12 storms like I mentioned but the news said 14!! Grumble Grumble..and that snow ...turned out to be a blizzard with white out conditions. Our city wasn't prepared for it at all and roads were sheets of ice. Tomorrow is going to be such a joy to drive to work. I'm praying schools will be closed. Winds appeared again and hit us first from the south, then west, then east..predicting now that we will get hit by northern winds. Egads!!
There I vented now and feel better. Must mention I hate snow again however. Sheesh and I had to brag a couple weeks ago we rarely ever see snow here.
Marianne and the boys |
| The forecast for here next Friday is snow showers. We NEVER get snow! |
We got over 10 inches on New Year's eve. Alot is still around. Here's Chewie out enjoying it.
Another shot of the snow after it stopped. 
And a couple days later - the horses and sheep in a beautiful sunset. 
I am SO glad the snow came and covered all the mud! |
Wonderful photos, what a beautiful place you live, the area looks picture postcard material. 
The Sunset photos are beautiful. OK here is a dumb question from someone where snow is a novelty.
Snow on the roofs, what do you do about that and is there ever any worry of the roof collasping under the weight of the Snow? Always been curious about that |
| Here most roofs are peak style with quite an angle so a lot of it slides off. Also, there is a venting system so that heat built up in an attic escapes a bit so I think that melts some. You can also instal heating coil systems to keep it melted, but that would make me nervous... |
| Thanks! I love living in the country! It is work, but also a natural stress reliever just going out and enjoying the outdoors. Even doing farm chores is relaxing most days.
The roofs are pitched enough so it melts and runs off. If it gets too bad, they sell scrapers that kind of look like snow scoops with long handles - for pulling the snow off the roof. The worst danger is the shelf of ice that forms near the eaves from freezing/thawing cycles. It gets very heavy and can ruin your roof. That is where the heated coils come in. I've never had them, but I know they are available. |
| I have always been told that if the snow is melting on your roof, and it is below freezing, then you are losing heat through your roof and need more insulation.
When it melts it just goes down the eavestroughs, like rain. And if it doesn't melt it can just stay there. It isn't really heavy unless it gets wet and freezes. The sun tends to melt some of it, too. My husband went to help his parents in Montreal during a very bad ice storm in the late 90's. They lost electricity in the cold of the winter, for days and for some people weeks. He went onto their roof and the ICE was 8 inches thick. |
| OK, here's the deal with roofs and attics and insulation.
Ice dams form when melting water from a "hot" area on the roof (which is over the heated area of the house) runs down the roof until it gets past the hot area, which is at the outside wall, where the overhang of the eaves begins. In order that ice dams not form the roof MUST stay cold. to make the roof cold without losing all of the heat from your house, various methods of venting the attic are employed. Some attics have all of the insulation under the floor of the attic (over the ceiling of the top floor of the house). Then the attic is just open to the weather through open vents at either gable end of the house. Some attics are vented via vents under the soffits or that overhanging area. The insulation is right up to where the vent is, but a channel over the insulation is maintained by a special foam or cardboard contraption. then along the roof line there is typically a ridge vent that runs most of the way along the top ridge. This is a typically 3/4 inch opening that is covered by some sort of a ridge vent cover, typically those are then covered by regular roof shingles, so it looks like it's just a bump in the roof. If these systems fail to work properly to keep your roof cold, when that snow melts and the water runs down to the eaves it re-freezes and starts to form a little ridge of ice. As it continues to happen, that ice gets thick and thicker until the ice dam gets quite tall, and water starts to back up behind it in what is like a little pool. When water doesn't just run off your roof and sits in a little pool, it works really really hard at finding a way down.. through your outside wall, usually, causing stains along the ceiling at the top of the wall. Does that make any sense? |
| Yes it does Ron, but also mention the ice can lift the shingles, thus gaining entry to the walls.
Here many of our homes are flat roof. No way in this life would I have one!!! Do they leak? Eventually. During our last storm the roofing companies were......ah, flooded.......with calls from people demanding immediate repairs. Problem other than obvious low spots is the water is suppse to drain thru ports in the roof. If ice blocks the ports or if the roof has sunk a pinch in front of the ports, then there's a giant pool ontop your house. Yes, they have many new materials for roofing other than the hot tar and gravel. So many new roofs will last 20 years instead of 5 or 10. Rain last summer caused a problem for a friend who came home and found water coming through the ceiling near the overhead fixture which was a ceiling fan. Apparently they had left the fan on low for air circulation and came home to a well soaked room from water being thrown off the fan blades. Eventually the whole roof gave way and instead of a ceiling fan they had a sky light and a flood. |
| Does anyone know how metal roofs hold up to ice & snow? We don't get it here very often, but every few years we do get heavy ice storms. Our roof needs replaced, so that's a goal this year. Hubby is looking at the metal ones - I just want a traditional one...lol Our neighbors have a blue metal roof, so that's kind of turning me off of them. |
| http://masterhandyman.com/columndetails ... e=20050507
Do your homework. They are expensive but will last a long, long time. Installation is critical. Also research the warrany as mentioned in the above article. Determine what exactly is a lifetime warranty......some aren't worth the paper they are written on. Colored one fade. This can be OK, unless you plan to add an addition like a neighor did. Now they have 2 different shades blue. |
They do well. We need reroofing too, and Todd wants a metal roof. Maybe it's a guy thing  .
We had friends who had a metal roof when I was a kid. Theirs was on forever, so I know they last. I did like the sound upstairs of the rain on the roof -you can hear it more than a regular roof. They do make more varieties now, some even look like shingles. Next summer we need to do ours (should have been this year actually  ), so we need to decide soon. |
| Yeah, ours is the same. It already needed replaced, and then Katrina came through and made it even worse. I don't know if we can wait any longer though; it leaks a little when we have heavy rain. The roofs aren't that common here - except a lot of log cabins have green and red roofs and that looks nice. Our neighbors is BRIGHT blue and it looks...well...tacky? (I feel so mean for saying that because they're nice people) It's just too bright for a roof. As long as he goes with a muted color, it would probably look alright I guess. Other than our neighbor's house, I don't think I've seen a metal roof with a brick house. |
SheepieBoss wrote: http://masterhandyman.com/columndetails.cfm?pubdate=20050507
Do your homework. They are expensive but will last a long, long time. Installation is critical. Also research the warrany as mentioned in the above article. Determine what exactly is a lifetime warranty......some aren't worth the paper they are written on. Colored one fade. This can be OK, unless you plan to add an addition like a neighor did. Now they have 2 different shades blue. Thanks for the link. It looks like it won't be too bad for us price wise for the supplies (one plus for a small home! lol). I'll have to call around when we can afford to actually shop around for it and see how much installation is. |
We got snow in the local mountains today.
May get a bit of snow here tonight. |
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