Well guys It snowed agian the last time it had snowed here was in 1911. I live in the most southern tip of Texas next to the border to mexico. It snowed like 3-4 inches and this is the first time I see snow, Its nice. Well I just wanted to get it out Peace Happy Holidays Happy New Year everyone.
Snowed in Brownsville HUH??? I didn't know it ever snowed that far south...
We're having snow today here in the Va Beach area.
weather man hasn't said a word about any chance of snow.. :brick:
We're supposed to get 14" here tonight and tomorrow, a few days too late for a white Christmas...
we stopped listening to weather men "itll be sunny and clear, 65 degree's..." go to work, starts pouring...
Check that: the forecast now calls for over 20" (50cm) and 80-110km/hr (40-70 mph) wind
Only difference: Brownsville, TX is on about the same latitude I am. (Port Charlotte, FL)
Snow in Canada isn't necessarily news. Snow on the Mexican border, and near sea level, that's news. :p
Now overall conditions like you just described, that's news.. those winds are close to hurricane-force. (74 mph)
I was listening to the radio this morning, and it turns out the last (and only time) we had a brown christmas here (meaning no snow on the ground) was 1911
The last time we had a white one was probably better that ten years ago. Statistically, Halifax has a 50/50 chance, but recently it's been brownbrownbrownbrownbrown
It seems like we ALWAYS have a snowstorm on Boxing day, though, and the snow has just started so it looks like this year will be no exception...
well i have half a foot of snow in toronto and up north of the city were i have a shop there is 2 and half feet of the white stuff.
Thats normal for my area.
Wow,
We here in Eastern Iowa (Davenport) had half an inch on Christmas Day and a dusting weeks before= total so far, Fall 2004 is half an inch---that's it so far. South Texas is ahead on snow !!!!!!
John R
Granted, snow in southern Texas is rare (but funny to a Canadian), but large amounts of snow in Nova Scotia aren't exectly commonplace either. Usually we will go a whole winter with bare ground, and when a storm starts out as snow it usually turns to rain and melts the same day. If we're expecting 6" they'll issue a heavy snowfall warning, and snowfalls of 12" or more are extremely rare. The storm we got 38" out of last year broke all previous records (it was the heaviest snowfall in recorded history for Halifax), and this 20" we're supposed to get is the type of storm we'd normally only see every 20 years or so. I'm not much of an environmentalist, but considering that in the past two years starting Nov '02 we have gotten no fewer than five "hundred year" storms:
- The November '02 flood
- The March '03 flood that happened the day I bought my T-Bird
- Hurricane Juan (Sept '03)
- The blizzard of Feb '04 [38" of snow, 70MPH winds, locally known as "White Juan" due to its similarity to a snowy hurricane]
- the blizzard of Nov '04 (24" of wet, heavy snow with 60MPH winds, much of Nova Scotia was without power for over a week after major transmission towers toppled under the weight)
and now we look like getting another one tonight, I'd have to say that there is something to this "Global Warming" business. By "Hundred year" storms I mean storms that usually only happen that fiercely every hundred years or so. I'm sure, Bird351, that after the beating that FLA took this year you'd agree that something is abnormal with the weather (BTW, my aunt & uncle lost everything at their winter home in Punta Gorda when Charley hit). They say that global warming causes severe storms and messes up weather patterns, and if snow in southern Texas, FLA being beat up by several hurricanes back-to-back-to-back, and poor ol' NS getting just about everything Ma Nature has to offer over the past two years isn't a sign of messed up weather I don't know what is!
I wouldn't be surprised if tornadoes started happening here. There are currently only two recorded tornadoes in Nova Scotia's record books (both withing the past ten years), but I (and just about everybody else who has witnessed the damage) believe that Hurricane Juan spuppiesed several tornadoes in central NS. The trees that are down, and the way they got all tangled up and fell in every direction, and the fact that entire tracts of forest were flattened while the woods directly next to them were untouched, seems to support this theory. Hell, we lost several hundred trees on our cottage lot and the cottage itself, which was still in the early stages of construction (the walls were up but no roof was on it yet), was completely untouched!
Oh, things are definitely not the way we expect them right now:
- Worst hurricane season in recent history.
- Worst tornado season in recent history. (due in large part to hurricane-spuppiesed tornadoes)
- First observed (minor) hurricane in the south Atlantic, a region where it was believed to be nearly impossible for a hurricane to form.
- Worst sunspots ever recorded.
- Mt. St. Helens came back to life after over 20 years.
- 8.9/9.0 (depending on who you ask) earthquakes.
I just read something, from Yahoo News I think, that the earthquake was so powerful that it disturbed the Earth's rotation. I also saw a page that monitors seismographs all over the world and updates every 30 minutes, and even seismographs in Florida have been insane for the past few hours. (more ink than paper showing, if they were printouts) Many of the other displays looked like 90%+ "ink". Here's the USGS link:
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml
I'm not a religious person, so I don't think that this is some end-of-the-world prophecy or whatever. But I do think that things are definitely picking up on all fronts, and that maybe the past 40-50 years have been a lull in activity. I'm also not a rabid environmentalist, so I'm not going to say it's even significantly our fault. (I mean, how could something like sunspots be even remotely our fault?) I think, in time, they'll probably find out that it's something like increased solar output altering things.. putting more energy into natural systems we are nowhere near understanding completely.
EDIT: Readings as of this posting are pictured below: (since that link updates over time)
And how are those seismographs suppose to be read? All you can see is ink. Yea It was weird for snow here in Brownsville and now looking at it I dont think I would like snow all the time.
If you've ever watched any earthquake show on Discovery, TLC, Science Channel, or any of those other channels, you've probably seen a seismograph printout being made.. with the squiggly lines they print out, the more ink you see the stronger it is/was. That should give you some idea of just how strong the quake is, if seismographs all over the world are going absolutely insane like that.
Jeez, the Weather Network is all messed up. They're showing Friday's forecast, and that forecast was for rain. The guy first said "Rain changing to snow", then "snow changing to rain", then "freezing rain and ice pellets", (these statements all within 10 minutes of each other) and they showed a heavy rainfall warning for the province. This was right after they finished talking about the blizzard. It's -10 right now, I don't think rain will be an issue...
Here we're having a major blizzard and the weather network is talking rain. I hope nobody's making travel plans based on their forecast...
Here are somme screenshots taken a few seconds ago of two weather forecasts. Hard to believe they are for the same city, but you can see that the second one has not been updated since Christmas day. The bottom one is the gov't forecast, the top is the Weather Network