Comments on: Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California.

By: jeez

jeez — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:39:08 +0000

Seems to have nailed it.

By: Pierre Legrand

Pierre Legrand — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:49:09 +0000

Baton Rouge had 3-4 inches of snow this past Thursday…it is a record of some sort. I called Al Gore’s office but no one answered.

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:57:25 +0000

Pamela said:
So for all you California types, get used to wool swimwear. It just ain’t the same as a little yellow pocka dot bikini made out of soft cotton and spandex.

Really! Wool in the hot tub? What a crazy idea. Swimsuits in the tub is just silly anyway. Hmm… maybe only a little crazier than me in a bikini (yellow spotted or otherwise…) But it is cold enough to need a nice robe for to-ing and fro-ing and we will need to be doing Irish Coffee rather than Scotch/rocks… Sacrifices MUST be made!

Does anyone know where that ’70s fondue set went?…

It is on the cool side of seasonably cold right now, but there is something pensive about it. A sense of impending SOMETHING. Probably the cold with very low but non-zero wind speeds. And standing in the sun doesn’t feel very warm. The squirrels are going nuts with packing in the chow too, and the cat has a very fluffy winter coat on. Hoping for a while Christmas…

By: alf

alf — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:30:09 +0000

Thanks Judy. I did some research on Kevin. Sorry about my comments. He is an admirable person.

By: Frank Perdicaro

Frank Perdicaro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:38:49 +0000

A bit off topic, but the snow is easy to fix.

The primary problem is tight loops calling rnd()
and Math.Random(). Instead of repeatedly
making up random numbers, pre-calculate
an array of many, say 10,000, and walk through
the array.

For extra pseudo-randomness, have an array
of steps, where each member is relative-prime
to the size of the array. For example, 10000
is 2*5*2*5*2*5*2*5. Use steps 7, 13 and 23
in sequence mod 10000.

This table-driven approach will remove about
80% of the execution time.

A similar approach can be used for the floating
point random numbers.

By: Rhys Jaggar

Rhys Jaggar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:04:18 +0000

Apparently, the last time sunspot-less days were so high in two consecutive years (1911-1913), the Great Lakes ALL froze over.

There’s a serious bout of cold in Canada right now.

Any bets laid on skating from Chicago to Lake Huron in 2009?

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:56:04 +0000

Forgot to add. He has a wind advisory up for our mountains. Kern. NOAA has nothing up yet and I’ll wait.
Kevin is usually hours if not days before NOAA.

Very excellent website OWSweather is and glad he is getting the much deserved publicity. Some is bad. Some is good. Any publicity is good.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54:23 +0000

Kevin was right, again. Arctic blast is coming down the Western Coast.

You don’t need a degree in meteorology to know “science” Kevin has a gift for patterns and numbers. He is a savant. His story intrigues many in Southern California. We all love him!

By: L Nettles

L Nettles — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:31:52 +0000

Now Snow in New Orleans???

http://www.ktbs.com/news/Snow-down-south-21496/

By: Richard Patton

Richard Patton — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:51:13 +0000

@Ric Werme
Here in Western Oregon/Washington the due to the influence of the ocean the 1000mb-500mb thicknesses value that is an indicator for snow is 520. It may be even lower for southern CA

By: Perry Debell

Perry Debell — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:29 +0000

Paul Shanahan (11:20:26) :

Richard Black is the most poorly informed environment correspondent I know of at the BBC. He’s worse than Harrabin, if that’s possible! Bishop Hill wrote this.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/9/30/the-amazing-disappearing-roger-harrabin.html

As for this comment!
“Being able to introduce efficient wood stoves is not rocket science.”
Ewah Eleri, Int’l Centre for Energy, Environment and Development.

Oh yes, it is rocket science!
http://www.cato-projects.org/ArLivre/RocketStove1.htm

Regards,

Perry

By: Pamela Gray

Pamela Gray — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:18:03 +0000

This weather pattern in the jet stream is now projected to dump a foot of snow or more at pass level and nearly as much on the valley floor in NE Oregon this weekend. I drive over two passes on my way to and from the ranch: the Blues and then up again through a finger of the Wallowa Whitman/Eaglecap Wilderness Area. Then next week the the jet stream moves south, temp drops like a stone in Oregon and California gets a taste of snow. I have to get some more heat lamps going under the house and space heaters going in bathrooms/laundry rooms to keep that big house from freezing up or else I would hunker down in Pendleton and ride it out till Xmas break. I also have cows on the property that need water. We may have to hose it out to them with a heat coil in the tank if the creek freezes up.

Are we having fun yet with this global warming?

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:12:36 +0000

NWS Sacramento and Eureka CA are now saying freezing temps could start on Saturday and last until Tuesday at least with snow levels < 500 feet ASL.

Since forecasts have seemed to run +2 C above actual this fall, I’ll bet it will be colder than that.

By: Alphajuno

Alphajuno — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:54 +0000

Actually the snow came three months after the hurricane… Sorry.

By: Alphajuno

Alphajuno — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:26:10 +0000

I live in Southeast Texas. Two months after Hurricane Ike devastated our region, we’re getting a snow storm with 1/2 inch of accumulation and still going. We’re at 29.5 deg N about a half mile from Galveston Bay!