Weather

[AlittleSalt]

I found out why FOX was saying yesterday was the last day of Summer. Today, September 1, is the first day of meteorological fall.

[clkeiper]

it feels like it too up here. it is down right cool. not sure if it made it to 70 today.

[dmforcier]

Didn't know about that. (Some gardener, eh?)

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I found out why FOX was saying yesterday was the last day of Summer. Today, September 1, is the first day of meteorological fall.

Northern Meteorological Seasons

To be consistent and to make weather forecasting easier, meteorologists divide the year into 4 meteorological seasons of 3 months each:

• Spring - from March 1 to May 31;
• Summer - from June 1 to August 31;
• Fall (autumn) - from September 1 to November 30; and,
• Winter - from December 1 to February 28 (February 29 in a leap year).

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/aboutseasons.html

[bower]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Looks like Irma might hit Florida.

Indeed, or anything up the coast. They say that hurricanes with this starting track will usually hook northwards. The question is, how soon will it hook... They never know more than five days in advance with these beasts.

[Father'sDaughter]

It's 48F right now and it's supposed to go down to 42 overnight. We're expecting the remains of Harvey on Sunday and keeping an eye on Irma. Hopefully she doesn't end up behaving like Irene back in 2012. There are parts of rural Vermont where you can still see storm damage.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by bower

Indeed, or anything up the coast. They say that hurricanes with this starting track will usually hook northwards. The question is, how soon will it hook... They never know more than five days in advance with these beasts.

It is a probability that we might get some effects of it. I have heard that they cannot predict its pat positively.
We get some heavy T storms .In the last 3-4 days we got about 5 inches of rain. But the creek is still dry. It will take a lot of rain until the ground becomes saturated. With sandy soil you wont see water running easily.

[bower]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

It is a probability that we might get some effects of it. I have heard that they cannot predict its pat positively.
We get some heavy T storms .In the last 3-4 days we got about 5 inches of rain. But the creek is still dry. It will take a lot of rain until the ground becomes saturated. With sandy soil you wont see water running easily.

The worst thing about weather extremes, the soil that has been too dry for too long also loses its moisture-holding capabilities. A heavy rain after a drought is less helpful, so much of it just runs away instead of being retained.

I still have damage from Igor and Leslie here - trees that were snapped and blown down and still haven't been cut and removed. Igor especially, blew down a lot of woods.
The storm we had last winter, the meteorologist said it was equivalent to a Cat 3. Many buildings were damaged by that. As for the hurricanes proper, water temperature makes the difference for us, whether it will be weak enough to do no harm. Tropical storms and remnants blow through here every autumn and are actually pleasant - windy wet and warm in October. But if the ocean water is warmer than normal, then we get scary stuff like Igor all the way up north.

[bower]

I just looked at the satellite images and Irma is looking super scary!! Just thinking of our members in the Caribbean and in Florida, hope your hatches are battened and stay safe. This is a big one.

For some reason all the atmospheric activity is pushing warm air in our direction, with another mini heatwave in store and temperatures well above normal for the next five days, humidex into the 80's. It will be nice for my outdoor tomatoes and I really wish they would all just ripen this week and get it over with.

[Worth1]

It might even end up in the gulf.
Too soon to tell what will happen.

Worth

[ginger2778]

Looks this am as though it will go below the Florida keys, then a very sharp right turn to go up the west central side of the peninsula. It looks like Texas and the other gulf states won't be impacted. But we will......

[Worth1]

You will be on the dirty side.

[AlittleSalt]

I have been watching the satellite images and info about Hurricane Irma. It has intensified from category 3 to category 5 in less than 24 hours. At least half the models are still showing it going where Marsha wrote above in post 1285.

Some of the other models have it going as far west as eastern Louisiana and others as far north east as the Carolinas. That is a huge area of possibility - everyone be careful. I hope it curves away from Florida and doesn't make landfall at all. Right now, the sustained winds are 175mph.

The news that NBC was saying a few minutes ago is that two category 4 or worse hurricanes hasn't hit the US in the same year. I have not researched that info yet.

[Worth1]

I less than 50 years they will have category six hurricanes.
We need to start planning on putting our refineries inland and not on the coast.
This would be a matter of national security.
Worth

[Worth1]

They could run pipelines to Austin and put them here.
This would change the demographics drastically for the better.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

The winds have gone up to 180 mph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_qFEXfrMA