~~**-- The Weather Thread --**~~

[Supe]

It's raining now, and 100% chance of rain according to weather underground through 8 pm tonight. I hope the craft get rained out since I have a ton of work to do up here in the office without having to deal with inspections.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Had our first frost last night, I unexpectedly had to go looking for my ice scraper to clear off the car windows.

 

[cement]

I see that the remnants of Typhoon Melor are hitting the US Northwest now .... that's the same storm that I posted about a week and a half ago. Amazing. The remnants of those big typhoons usually don't make it all the way back across the North Pacific like that. That's about 7,500 miles.
I just sat through a presentation by a meteorologist from the ENSO Applications Center (El Nino forecast group). He told us that during an El Nino Year, every island in the Marianas has a 1 in 3 chance of being hit by a typhoon, which he said is higher odds than anywhere on earth - The US Gulf Coast, for example, may have odds near that, but for the whole coastline. For us, those odds are for each, individual island.

is this your storm Dleg? soggy cali

you would think the news would play up the leftover typhoon aspect, it's pretty interesting!

man the NMI are a tiny speck out in that ocean. keep your water wings handy bud!

 

[FLBuff PE]

^Rain here on the western slope. You may have another mess to deal with at your hole in the mountain, cement (hopefully not as bad as last weekend). Interestingly, it was sunny and in the mid-50s over here on Saturday, when you had the blizzard in your neck of the woods...er, mountains.

 

[cement]

I stayed home on saturday. Denver got hit the worst, they had both interstates closed. up in the foothills it wasn't that bad.

 

[Dleg]

is this your storm Dleg? soggy caliyou would think the news would play up the leftover typhoon aspect, it's pretty interesting!

man the NMI are a tiny speck out in that ocean. keep your water wings handy bud!

Yeah, that was the remnants of Melor. You know, those winter storms off Cali can be typhoon-strength, too. I remember one storm I went through on one of the Exxon platforms off Santa Barbara, where we recorded 100 mph winds. The seas were white. Rain was leaking through my instrument cab hatch by being blown vertically up, through the (old) rubber seal, and running down the inside of the door .

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Ugh, rain and gusty winds today. Probably won't be a shootout in Foxboro later. Can't even watch a good mudder because they have astroturf there.

I paid good money for this dammit!

 

[Supe]

COLD.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Ugh, rain and gusty winds today. Probably won't be a shootout in Foxboro later. Can't even watch a good mudder because they have astroturf there.
I paid good money for this dammit!

And it was 59-0. That's why they play the game.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Man, I had to scrape the car NAD they forgot to cut on the heat in the office.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Don't scrape your nads dude!

 

[csb]

Man, I had to scrape the car NAD they forgot to cut on the heat in the office.

Truck nads...but I don't think you have to scrape them if they ice up.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Where's Testee when you need him?

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I've actually seen people driving around with those things on their trucks.

It's a wild world.

 

[MA_PE]

csb is that your truck? With the 'nads and those "fat girl" mudflaps (your avatar) that would be be one sweet whip.

 

[csb]

Seems like it would have to be a diesel truck...but no, not mine.

 

[testee]

Truck nads...but I don't think you have to scrape them if they ice up.

yeah, that's how I roll.

a high performance diesel that can belch a blinding cloud of fumes nearly on command.

btw, I've seen what csb drives:

 

[Dleg]

I thought she drove one of these?

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I wouldn't mind a head on collision with those!

 

[Dleg]

Tropical storm 23W passing about 60 miles south of us right now - nasty weather! The government and schools are shut down, but I can't afford the time off - I am at work anyway trying to finish a project.