Weather Extremes In Your Neck Of The Woods

Here's what we got in store in my area today and tomorrow:



Not very often we see a predicted high of 102 F in these parts.

91.5°F here... In Quebec with the humidity factor it's going to feel like 118°F

Supposedly hitting 102 today, and now they've added 102 to tomorrows forecast as well.

Sunday we might cool down into the lower 90's.

Well...here it's supposed to be hot at this time of year. We've had nothing but rain, and the odd day of sun. No work for me. Definitely NOT typical weather for this part.

Let's see... it went down to 38 degrees last night and there was new snow on the top of local mountains this morning. It managed to get all the way up to 60 degrees today, and another low of 40 forecast for tonight. Tomorrow it should be up to around 80 with sun, climbing to about 90 by Sunday. A few days ago on the weekend it was sweltering hot on the bikes riding to Going To The Sun. Got stopped at the lineup at the border while bringing my buddies on their Beemer down and sunburned in line after taking my helmet and riding jacket off while waiting.

I'll take it over the heat any day. Although the local fire suppression crews in BC and Montana are worried that if the weather doesn't "improve" there won't be any forest fires to fight and so they won't be able to make that part of their income. From the local paper yesterday:
"According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the potential for wildfire in the Northern Rockies will be below normal in July and August, thanks to a deep snowpack in the mountains.

“If there is no fire, there's no work,” said Steve Gist, owner of Gist Enterprises, LLC, a private contractor based in Whitefish."

There's a history around here of firefighters dropping a match once in a while to help nature when it doesn't cooperate with a few fires. Very few that would do that, but it only takes one out of hundreds. If anyone riding through this area rides through the favorite routes up around Canal Flats - those big burns you're riding through were deliberately set by one wildfire fighter. I don't think he got much for a sentence after getting caught, either, but lots of guys made lots of money before those fires were out.

From my local newspaper:

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New Castle Airport, the temperature reached 102 degrees at 2:45 p.m., the service said, breaking the previous record of 101 set in 1957.

That's not a heat index number. That's straight temperature. It was quite humid here too.

For the first time in ages I opted for taking the car instead of the motorcycle.

In my local news-rag today:

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Above normal temperatures are likely to continue through June across much of the country, national weather experts said today, continuing a trend that in Delaware has confused people, plants and animals alike.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s spring outlook noted that 2012 will be the first in four years without widespread worries about major flooding -- partly because snow cover fell this winter to its third-lowest level in nearly half a century.

Halfway through March, average state temperatures in Delaware are running at the third-hottest level on record, with the preceding 12 month period already ranked as the hottest since record-keeping began in 1895.

N.E. Wisconsin.

Lows near freezing-----Highs in the mid 60's to 70

Normal highs--- in the 30's.


It was said on the radio.... "Even the lows, were a new high low temp"


Rode to work this morning. 15 miles at 55mph. Heated grips, moto gloves, Tourmaster coat, MX lid and worn out blue jeans.

Legs got cold, eyes watered a bit...... But the dirt (mud/snow) roads back home after work made up for it

Snow, Hail, Rain and Sunshine today...... WTF? Love the NW

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hey-happened-winter-wimpiness-portends-spring/story?id=15916142#.T2YyctDRL3w

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The winter of 2011-12 might well earn the title of "the winter that wasn't" in many parts of the United States.

The season has entered the books as the fourth warmest on record for the Lower 48, according to an analysis by the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

In January, for instance, daily high-temperature records were broken across the northern Plains. Minot, N.D., posted a 61 degree F. high on Jan. 5, eclipsing the previous record of 58 degrees set in 1906.

Crazy winter this year. Kids here never missed a day of school due to snow. I did not have to shovel snow once.

In my lifetime, I can't recall a warmer, less wintery winter.

weather dot com said we hit 102 degrees F today.

It was HOT is all I know. I went off-road riding and was soaked within an hour and started getting weak/dizzy etc. I am investing in a hydration pack after today.

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The temperature hit 100 degrees this afternoon in New Castle and Sussex counties, matching record highs, according to data on the National Weather Service website.

The records at New Castle Airport near New Castle and Sussex County Airport near Georgetown were set in 1953.

The normal high for this date is 86 degrees in New Castle County and 87 in Sussex.

An excessive heat warning remains in effect until 6 a.m. Thursday, the weather service said.

I live in New Castle county.

It might as well be fall already here. Mid 50's and raining, though it got as warm as 90 once around late June. By the end of September I'll need to find a car and a place to *gasp* store my WR for the winter... before it starts dropping below 0 for the daily high anyway.

I can only wish our weather was more like ya'lls. Here in Louisiana it usually dosn't drop below 90 from June to October. August is usually 100's every day. Humidity is always high. At least 60%, but often towards 90%. Just now getting into the 70-80 range. Last winter was a unusually hot one. Don't think it dropped below 32 more than 2 or 3 times.

Getting hammered - possibly <-- clicky


Frankenstorm...

All is good in the Great White North..

Still coming. <-- clicky




Fingers crossed for everybody along the east coast.

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Hurricane Sandy — upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm — was barreling north from the Caribbean and was expected to make landfall early Tuesday near the Delaware coast, then hit two winter weather systems as it moves inland, creating a hybrid monster storm.

Even if Sandy loses strength and makes landfall as something less than a hurricane, the combined storm was expected to bring misery to a huge section of the East. An 800-mile wide swath of the country could see 50 mph winds regardless of Sandy's strength.

Experts said the storm could be wider and stronger than Irene, which caused more than $15 billion in damage, and could rival the worst East Coast storm on record. On Saturday morning, forecasters said hurricane-force winds of 75 mph could be felt 100 miles away from the storm's center.

Great time of the year in Central Florida. 70's and sunny during the day and 50's overnight. Should be like that for about a month. We earned it. The summers are insanely hot and humid down here.

I've had to plug my car in at night all week as its been getting -10 to -15, if not colder, at night. Highs have been around 20. Its gonna get upwards of 60the degrees colder before winters end.

Woke up to about 20cm of snow. at the end of october!

it ain't supposed to snow here till mid-end november. supposedly winter comes this early only once every 40 years


hopefully this also means spring (aka riding season ) will come early!!

The rain has started here. Worst shit looks like it is now expected to hit central New Jersey.

We're still in the cone of doom though...

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Hurricane Sandy’s progress slowed and changed slightly early today, but heavy rain and flooding risks remain across Delaware, with northern parts of the state seeing 6 to 8 inches of rain through Tuesday and southern areas receiving 8 to 10 inches.

Warnings continued to call Sandy a dangerous, multi-day, regionwide storm.

National Weather Service forecasts showed sustained winds peaking in the 40 to 50 mph range overnight on Monday for New Castle County, with gusts topping 60 mph but diminishing by Tuesday morning, with 20 to 30 mph sustained winds and higher gusts for the rest of the day.

^^^^^ Wiinner!

the yellow arrow is where I live.