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Post by trailboss on Feb 22, 2019 22:10:55 GMT -5
We have had a storm blow through, and it set a record amount of snowfall....broke all records that go back 100 years...all of the major freeways in and out have been closed for a day or so, so far. This is up near Flagstaff...  Near Sedona.... This is southern Arizona, outside of Tucson.  I got back to the barn today... hey Spring falls on Pipe night next month!   |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Feb 22, 2019 22:15:14 GMT -5
WOW! And we're sitting in the south breaking daytime high records. 84 here today. Trade ya?
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Post by trailboss on Feb 22, 2019 22:18:27 GMT -5
WOW! And we're sitting in the south breaking daytime high records. 84 here today. Trade ya? It is going to be in the 70's in a couple days. I feel for the uninformed people that will be hanging out in the desert washes when the tidal waves come...  .we really needed this though, the aquifers need a recharge, and the reservoirs need the same...it is a welcome sight. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 22:23:22 GMT -5
Holly mackerel ........that’s crazy!! Be safe Charlie, take a day or two off👍👍
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Post by trailboss on Feb 22, 2019 22:26:06 GMT -5
The Tucson PD had several reports of a white powdery substance on the ground...they sent it off to the crime lab for analysis in a news report.  |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 22, 2019 22:29:30 GMT -5
Holly mackerel ........that’s crazy!! Be safe Charlie, take a day or two off👍👍 I have enough seniority, I can pick and choose...my day was never farther than 15 miles from Big Sticks cigar shop this week..when the weather is fair..."yeah, I will take that run up to Monument Valley."..or Grand Canyon. |
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Post by puffy on Feb 22, 2019 22:39:34 GMT -5
Not the picture in my mind of what Arizona looks like.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 22, 2019 22:43:24 GMT -5
Not the picture in my mind of what Arizona looks like. Me neither Hoss, that is why I stay in the valley of the sun.....This global warming is really kicking us in the shank! Correction..I-10 from So Cal is open. |
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Post by toshtego on Feb 22, 2019 22:43:49 GMT -5
Yah, didy, yah, blah, blah!
The day we get a real snow in this drought ravaged valley I will buy someone a cigar. Dust, nothing but white dust.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 23:01:19 GMT -5
But Al Gore said......
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 22, 2019 23:09:31 GMT -5
That's not what Sedona looked when we were there. Are you sure that the photographer didn't step in a Vortex? They are all over the place around there.
You're friend in perfectly normal Texas.
Ron
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 22, 2019 23:11:07 GMT -5
Not the picture in my mind of what Arizona looks like. Me neither Hoss, that is why I stay in the valley of the sun.....This global warming is really kicking us in the shank! Correction..I-10 from So Cal is open. So, which direction are the people escaping? 😨😁😎🤠 |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Feb 22, 2019 23:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 22, 2019 23:33:30 GMT -5
Hah, no kidding! I spent last night in Tucson. It started snowing on the ride to the airport this morning. At first we thought it was kinda cute - snow in the Sonoran desert and all. This was before discovering that the airport's limited deicing resources were totally overwhelmed, and there was no anti-icing fluid at the entire airport. Apparently this sort of thing is unexpected there... we got back to Seattle about 6 hours late.    It wasn't isolated, either - ground was white all the way north. Canyon was pretty:  I thought that was the Denver Airport with those big white tents all over the place. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 22, 2019 23:37:29 GMT -5
Oh man, we have fog so bad I can't see the driveway. Oh, wait, that's normal for SE Texas this time of year. It was also 71 degrees.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Feb 23, 2019 4:01:52 GMT -5
That anthropogenic climate change would lead to more extreme weather events of all types (warm and cold events), as well as faster switching between these types of events in a given location? Indeed, he did... because the evidence supported that conclusion (and still does). ;-) Sorry, but with my background being in atmospheric science, it's hard to ignore the suggestion that if ACC were real, we wouldn't be having cold weather. Basic thermodynamics tells us that all weather on this planet is driven by heat, and the fact that it is distributed unevenly on the planet. More latent heat = greater differentials between regions = more varied and severe weather, from warmer and wetter hurricanes to colder and more violent arctic airmasses / systems. It's impossible to attribute one event to climate change. It has, surely, snowed in Tucson before, for example. But, it's also becoming impossible to ignore the trend of extreme weather events becoming more frequent, and the fact that this is exactly what global circulation models have been predicting for decades, in response to anthropogenic forcing. None of which is to profess any real admiration for Gore. While many of his facts are correct, he is in the end just a politician. The fact that an issue based in science has become political is in itself asinine. When agencies as disparate as NOAA, NASA, the EPA, the USGS, the Hadley Centre, the DoD, the intelligence communities, and every major atmospheric research institution in the world are in agreement, debate by scientifically illiterate politicians is really irrelevant! |
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 23, 2019 5:48:03 GMT -5
Good grief, that is not a sight I expected to see. At least it shouldn't last long if it's to get to the 70s next week. Do you think there'll be much flooding after that, trailboss? |
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Post by Darin on Feb 23, 2019 7:23:05 GMT -5
The drive into work the last couple of mornings has been a bit sketchy. I've had tons of experience driving in ice and snow but others around me, obviously, have not. We all got turned around near Sedona recently as well because Oak Creek rose up over the bridge and flooded the road out. Good times ... makes me miss the midwest. Not!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 8:28:10 GMT -5
Here at my house we received 2" + since Wednesday night. I live about 3 miles from the Superstition Mountian I could see the snow was about half way down in many locations.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 23, 2019 10:06:23 GMT -5
Next door, in New Mexico, we got about 10 inches overnight.
I will be passing out cigars later today.
Being Saturday, the County Plow will not be along until Monday. Perhaps sooner if the crew can get out of their driveways. LOL!
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Feb 23, 2019 10:12:13 GMT -5
I don't believe that the accumulated snow that has fallen in south Louisiana in the past 100 years would add up to that much snow. But, I know we were pounded once in the 50's according to some pictures of my dad in his youth.
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Post by driftingfate on Feb 23, 2019 11:02:57 GMT -5
Here at my house we received 2" + since Wednesday night. I live about 3 miles from the Superstition Mountian I could see the snow was about half way down in many locations. Sure is a beautiful sight, isn't it? I like to see it THERE and not HERE, lol. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 12:26:56 GMT -5
Louisville hasn't had a snow big enough for the kids to get out the sleds this year. It's been raining for a week. We're in the 60s today and things are already beginning to green up a little - Go figure?
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Post by trailboss on Feb 23, 2019 12:49:13 GMT -5
Good grief, that is not a sight I expected to see. At least it shouldn't last long if it's to get to the 70s next week. Do you think there'll be much flooding after that, trailboss? Very possible. The ground has a lot of clay, and I think that it has done most of the percolation that it can....It will be in the 70’s down here early in the week... mid sixties up at Darin’s... a lot of melting going on. It is a real problem during the summer monsoon season, when we have torrential rainfall in the hills, at least with snow it has to melt.. Our aquifers and reservoirs badly needed this storm and we are glad to see it. |
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Post by peteguy on Feb 23, 2019 14:14:14 GMT -5
Could be worse
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Post by Darin on Feb 23, 2019 15:30:14 GMT -5
Good grief, that is not a sight I expected to see. At least it shouldn't last long if it's to get to the 70s next week. Do you think there'll be much flooding after that, trailboss ? Very possible. The ground has a lot of clay, and I think that it has done most of the percolation that it can....It will be in the 70’s down here early in the week... mid sixties up at Darin’s... a lot of melting going on. It is a real problem during the summer monsoon season, when we have torrential rainfall in the hills, at least with snow it has to melt.. Our aquifers and reservoirs badly needed this storm and we are glad to see it.
Time to bust out the sluices and gold pans … gold, gold, GOOOOOLLLD!!!
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Post by username on Feb 23, 2019 16:08:11 GMT -5
It hit us in Tucson to. It was wild driving around and seeing snow on people's cars.
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Post by skeeter456 on Feb 23, 2019 19:15:01 GMT -5
Lol thats normal for us here in super upstate ny! Ejoy it while its there!
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Post by trailboss on Feb 23, 2019 19:19:08 GMT -5
My wife ran across this pic of the Grand Canyon....that is one heck of a lightning bolt.  |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Feb 23, 2019 21:55:03 GMT -5
My wife ran across this pic of the Grand Canyon....that is one heck of a lightning bolt. Wow... that would be the shot of a lifetime... beautiful! |
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