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Post by Dallas Landers » Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:29 am

In October this is fun to see. Not so much this time of year. Im ready for T time!
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Post by TXGOAT2 » Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:02 am

It's around 44 F and dreary here, with humidity at 100%. NWS predicts temperatures around 88 F tomorrow, with humidity falling to around 20% or less. 30+ MPH winds will raise the grass fire danger level.

The snow is nice to look at, at least in rural areas like in the picture.

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Post by TWrenn » Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:30 am

Sorry but it's NOT even fun to see in October! That's still some of our prime touring time, at least early on. This past October our group of guys as well as myself and the wife got in a fair amount of time in the T.


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Post by TXGOAT2 » Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:37 am

Around here, snow is a rarity, and nevers lasts long. I used to enjoy driving in it, but that's over with now that the road salt pushers have moved into the area.

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Post by TWrenn » Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:16 am

LOL Pat...we call 'em "SALT DEMONS"! :lol: :evil:


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Post by Norman Kling » Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:27 am

How can it go from 44 to 88 overnight? I think that would take very strong winds, so might be time to go into your shelter. It hasn't been that cold here, however, it is colder than usual and more rain than average. Those weather people are getting more accurate, but still not always right. It will soon be summer and you might wish it to cool down. My first trip to Texas was back in the 1990s. it was early September and we thought we might see what the gulf was like so went to Galveston. Looked at a room but was very moldy. I decided I would wade into the gulf just to say I had done so. Usually do that at any seaside place I have not been before. I got in as far as my ankles and they were covered with crude oil and tar. Took about a week to get them completely clean. We decided to go back to Huston to get a room for the night. Our car did not have AC and it was very hot and humid. So we got up around 5 AM to beat the heat. It was still hot and humid! We hit the road and about 100 miles inland it was still hot but much less humidity.
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Post by jiminbartow » Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:42 am

No complaints here. The weather could not be nicer here in the Sunshine state. March has always had the nicest, most beautiful weather of the year. Right now, it is about 75 degrees under sunny, cloudless skies. Jim Patrick


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Post by BUSHMIKE » Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:48 am

Dallas,
Ill trade ya……
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Post by Lil Teezy » Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:58 am

We have temp swings here like that year round. 44-88 could be any month! Ive seen 50-100 in the same 24 hrs a bunch and I think something like 88- 22, snow overnight and then back to 80 last fall. Not always accompanied by wind, but if it’s blowing hot on a Monday, it’ll be snow Tuesday! We had a dusting yesterday morning and then low 50s and hot sun at lunchtime. March is the snowiest month up high, but we’ll see flowers and flip flops this month down here between dumps…Chris, in the bubble.

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Post by TRDxB2 » Fri Mar 10, 2023 12:11 pm

Been warmer around here this winter but about the same 50 miles to the North. South of us, Quad Cities on I-80, been hit with the fluctuating weather patterns.
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Post by Wayne Sheldon » Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:25 am

Been in Grass Valley seventeen years now. For the first time, less than two weeks ago, I could not drive out from our house! And it lasted for three days! Our driveway is about two hundred feet long, and I shoveled the length of it three times in four days. Still couldn't go on out as the private road (about a quarter mile?) was too deep for the four wheel drive Expedition.

As for temperature swings? We lived in Livermore California for twenty-five years. Certain times of the year there, the temperature swings were crazy wild! We woke up one morning to the dog giving us this "what do I do now" look because the water dish had more than a quarter inch thick ice on it and she couldn't break through it! Six hours later it was ninety-five degrees outside!


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Post by Nv Bob » Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:22 pm

Wayne you missing the fun on the east side of the Sierra
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Post by ABoer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:54 pm

Dallas L,
That plow looks as a : Little Genius # 8 Am I right ???

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Post by Dallas Landers » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:32 pm

I believe so. Everything is operational. It would be in china if not for me.


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Post by BUSHMIKE » Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:38 pm

Dallas Landers wrote:
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It would be in china if not for me.
Sad but so true! I wonder how many thousands of T frames and engines were plucked out of fencerows and loaded on ships?


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Post by Scott_Conger » Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:57 pm

our 40-50 degree swings can occur in 15 minutes and are usually brought by warm Chinook 80MPH winds. 110MPH winds happen 2-4 times per year and are simply part of life. This place is not for sissies (or poorly built structures). Blown over semi's are common.

Been a very easy winter here with little snow in the Basin which is normal. Indians used to winter on our land and others nearby due to low snow, plenty of grass and game all winter. Tipi circles and stone tools and prehistoric fire pit remnants are abundant. Winter was not so easy for anyone else outside our 20 mile radius as snow packs are well over 100%.
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Post by TXGOAT2 » Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:56 pm

We get a similar, but much milder accellerated heating effect here when dry winds blow in from higher elevations to the west and northwest. Adiabatic heating (?) It's 93 F at the moment with a southwest wind. Up the road a hundred miles or so, (and uphill a thousand feet or more) it's about 62F with a northwest wind.


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Post by Rich P. Bingham » Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:31 pm

Regardless, I don't think any of us are quite as "under the weather" as this model T ! :o
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Post by Norman Kling » Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:39 pm

Rich I hope you have good anti freeze or have drained the cooling system. The rest will need to wait till it de-frosts. And I thought it was cold here a couple weeks ago when we had a few snowflakes for about 15 minutes.
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Post by TXGOAT2 » Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:47 pm

Put some Marvel Oil in it a get a free start!

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Post by My1914T » Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:44 am

Wait for April!!
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Post by TWrenn » Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:45 am

My1914T wrote:
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Wait for April!!
Hate to be a kill-Joy or a Debbie Downer...but they say expect a cooler than normal first half of April also. We're paying for the relatively mild winter we enjoyed, I put more miles on my Fordor in FEBRUARY than I will even dream of doing the next 6 weeks!! :lol: :evil:


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Post by BUSHMIKE » Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:23 am

I got up twice last night to put another cover on. When I got up this morning, I realized my bedroom window was wide open taking advantage of yesterdays 35deg. Coffee tastes extra fine this morning.
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Post by Duey_C » Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:24 pm

Fresh outside air sure smells good in the winter doesn't it Mike!? Maw and I do that whenever we can get by with it. :)
Here, we were at 35" ABOVE our normal of about 55" of snow a week ago. And it stayed all season. :shock: Just like the olden days.
Then we got 5 more a few days ago and it should snow some more on Thursday.
Perfect year for ice damns on the roof. Darn it, I have to get slinging some salt up on the roof.
Dallas, right there with ya. Over it. Almost anxious to b!tch about how warm it is...
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Post by TXGOAT2 » Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:33 pm

About a week ago, NWS predicted below average temperatures for mid-March in this area. Looks like they nailed it.


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Post by speedytinc » Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:15 am

Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

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Post by Duey_C » Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:42 pm

Not an All Fools Day joke. That's coming soon tho.
First time ever seeing this. Clicked the pic 20 minutes ago as we rolled thru town.
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Post by HalSched » Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:36 am

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My Grandson, his wife and his 4 WD 1300 HP (T)esla. At our cabin at Tahoe/Donner. That's Truckee, California. This picture was tken on March 20, 2023.


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Post by Moxie26 » Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:28 am

Wow, European right hand drive T (esla) .

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Post by KWTownsend » Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:53 am

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I thought we had our winter's last hurrah last month, but here is a shot from this morning...
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*sigh*


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Post by Scott_Conger » Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:15 am

We've had an easy winter...until today! So, the worst of winter comes the first week of spring, this year.

10" overnight and still falling
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Post by TXGOAT2 » Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:19 am

Better park that Tesla and get a diesel monster truck and put power chips on it so it rolls black smoke. We're getting way behind on Climate Change.


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Post by Rich P. Bingham » Sat Mar 25, 2023 11:49 am

A few robins made the mistake of showing up here a couple of weeks ago. Local wisdom has it that robins will lie to you - wait for kildeer - they're honest ! :lol:
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Post by Scott_Conger » Sat Mar 25, 2023 12:06 pm

Rich...too funny!

we, too, had a TON of robins all over us last week, gorging themselves on Juniper berries...not to mention the damn woodpeckers beginning their spring dismantling of our cabin.
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Post by Rich P. Bingham » Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:33 pm

Scott, I hope that "Woody" and his pals don't do too much damage. We have flickers all winter, they hammer on our house a lot, it's sided with shingles and leaf-cutter bees fill the gaps all summer - then swarms of box elder bugs take refuge there in the fall. A veritable flicker smorgasbord ! This is the first time they've put holes in the wall !! :o
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Post by Norman Kling » Sun Mar 26, 2023 11:08 am

Strange things are happening! The polar ice cap is shrinking, but there has been an ice sheet on Lake Tahoe! There was a small tornado touch down near Los Angeles, and San Diego rainfall this season exceeded that of Seattle. Now they have the northern lights in northern California!
Very strange! :shock:
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Post by TRDxB2 » Sun Mar 26, 2023 12:50 pm

There are lots of natural Earth events that are affecting the climate besides carbon emissions. Unfortunately, Political dialogue has lumped them together to foster a single cause. So you know where I stand - we need to clean up the environment but in a systematic way, not a shotgun approach.
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So here's whats affecting weather (not the ice cap melting) explaining affect to cause to cause to ciause
For example, many years ago we used to gear about El Niño and La Niña and how that was going to effect weather patterns. Have you heard about it recently? Chances are we will not since we need a catalyst to spark Climate Change initiatives
This is a Climate Change organization https://earth.org/el-nino-2023/
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El Niño
-During El Niño, trade winds weaken. Warm water is pushed back east, toward the west coast of the Americas.
-El Niño means Little Boy in Spanish. South American fishermen first noticed periods of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean in the 1600s. The full name they used was El Niño de Navidad, because El Niño typically peaks around December.
-El Niño can affect our weather significantly. The warmer waters cause the Pacific jet stream to move south of its neutral position. With this shift, areas in the northern U.S. and Canada are dryer and warmer than usual. But in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Southeast, these periods are wetter than usual and have increased flooding.
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La Niña

-La Niña means Little Girl in Spanish. La Niña is also sometimes called El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply "a cold event." La Niña has the opposite effect of El Niño. During La Niña events, trade winds are even stronger than usual, pushing more warm water toward Asia. Off the west coast of the Americas, upwelling increases, bringing cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface.
-These cold waters in the Pacific push the jet stream northward. This tends to lead to drought in the southern U.S. and heavy rains and flooding in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. During a La Niña year, winter temperatures are warmer than normal in the South and cooler than normal in the North. La Niña can also lead to a more severe hurricane season.
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How's the Pacific warming ? https://www.climate.gov/news-features/f ... ing-global
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A warm pool in the Indo-Pacific Ocean has almost doubled in size, changing global rainfall patterns.
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This is sum what of a political spin in explaining the change in weather in the Pacific Northwest - no mention of El Niño or La Niña
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Post by speedytinc » Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:31 pm

The el nino & la nina thing was totally predicted wrong this year.
Another dry winter was predicted. Surprise!
Record rain & snow in the west. Enough to end a decades drought.

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Post by Duey_C » Sat Apr 01, 2023 9:14 pm

After an afternoon of rain, we got dumped on last last night. And it'll do it again in a couple days...
Son says we're at 88" of snow here. Surprise! is right!
Very sunny so it settled down some today.
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