How's the fucking weather where you are?

[Ymir's blood]

You should move your plants inside.

[lisarea]

Yep, that's what I'm bugging about right now. And the outside plants are in the ground. And I have a whole ton of green tomatoes on the vine, so I'm debating whether I pick them first and then try to insulate the plants or leave them on and hope I can keep them warm enough for that one day because the temperatures are supposed to go back up on Wednesday and stay there for a while.

And as long as I'm complaining, I planted jalapenos and fresnos, and the plants grew up all nice and tall and healthy looking, but they're only just now starting to maybe think about making some peppers.

I hate gardening and am terrible at it, so it's probably my fault, but STILL.

EDIT: And I just realized we should probably drain the outside faucets and probably the swamp cooler too. I don't want to take it down yet, though, because the temperatures are supposed to go back up after. This actually kind of sucks.

[Ensign Steve]

How does that even happen? It's not a typo?

[lisarea]

Yeah, it's really happening, and I really am fretting about the tomatoes and the pipes and stuff.

We do get big temperature swings here a lot, mostly because of the mountains and stuff, but this one is a bit weirder than usual.

The terrain of the High Plains and Front Range is the secret to its temperature swings. Stationary fronts can get caught up in the mountains, leading to large temperature changes over very small distances. Other times, the forcing of air up or down slopes can compress or expand pockets of air, their temperatures warming or cooling, respectively.

“Right along the front range, one main reason is that, before the front comes in, you get downslope warming and compressional heating,” said Barjenbruch. Downsloping, which occurs when air moves down a hill or mountain, can result in warming as its air pressure increases near the earth’s surface. For every 1,000 feet a pocket of air sinks, it warms 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

“Then we switch to this big upslope and cooling … it’s a double whammy,” Barjenbruch said. “There’s not much moderation with these air masses. That’s the big difference from something that moves into the eastern U.S.”

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh hey, a K temperature option. :rockstar:

[lisarea]

It's in the upper 90s and it might be the smokiest day we've had in an already smoky wildfire season. Today is GROOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSS.

You know what, though? I've started rooting for the temperature to get up to 100F or so tomorrow before the winter storm comes in Tuesday just so we can have like a 70 degree drop and brag about how hardcore we are.

[Pyrrho]

Raining all day here and we have flash flood warnings in effect. Sump pump is working like a fiend.

[lisarea]

There are ashes everywhere and the air quality is in the red "DO NOT GO OUTSIDE" zone.

Someday, a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

[LarsMac]

Driving to Ft Morgan, and back, today. The Prairie is brown from the dry season, and the sky has a reddish hue.
I was reminded of some of the landscape pics that were sent back by the Mars probes.

[Crumb]

We are expecting an "historic wind event". Sounds like a blast.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It's been breezy all day in North Cascadia, with a couple power flickers. But it hasn't seemed disastrous so far.

[Crumb]

We lost power for an hour. It started about when you posted this...

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Someday, a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

This desire could be from either end of the political spectrum.

[lisarea]

Here is the original context, so I tend to think of it as espousing some "conservative values":

Taxi Driver - Some Day A Real Rain Will Come -...

I didn't mean it that way, though.

[LarsMac]

Wet, drizzly, fucking cold, and now the wind is kicking up, again.

[LarsMac]

Today was only the second time that I have shoveled snow in September.
The good news is that I have discovered where I will most likely need to have ice melt and snow removal tools readily accessible this winter.

The latest forecast suggests that it will be tomorrow before the Sun decides to show itself, again.

I think that I will practice my Winter Hibernation Technique.

[lisarea]

It's still snowing here too, but the ground had accumulated enough heat that it's not sticking much, so we probably won't need to shovel. I'm not optimistic about my outdoor plants, though. We covered them up with a few layers of yard waste, then trash bags, then a big canvas dropcloth, but that might not be enough. (Weird thing: We apparently do not own a tarp.)

[Sock Puppet]

The sky is orange today. I don't think it's proper smog - more of a drizzling ash. One day of this shit will be more depressing than a month of nonstop rain.

Congratulations, evangelical death-mongers. You got your fucking apocalypse. Sorry about that Rapture thing not working out; turns out nobody wants you.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Yesterday was smoke, today is clear, and headed to 30C or more.

[JoeP]

First an orange president, now orange skies. You poor sods.

[Sock Puppet]

My car was at least mostly clean 2 days ago. This morning:




Guess what color my car is supposed to be.

show spoiler

Dark blue

And yes, this is on-topic, dammit. This shit is coming from the sky and carried by the wind.

[Ari]

How’s the weather? Apocalyptic!
The SF marine layer is keeping all the smoke up high, but it’s also compressed it into this thick darkening blanket. It’s 1:30pm and it’s not just orange but dark like the sun never really came up.

14 Photos Of San Francisco Landmarks Under a 'Bladerunner 2020' Orange Sky

[Ensign Steve]

My brain is really confused about why it is only 3 pm when it has been dusk for hours.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ari

How’s the weather? Apocalyptic!
The SF marine layer is keeping all the smoke up high, but it’s also compressed it into this thick darkening blanket. It’s 1:30pm and it’s not just orange but dark like the sun never really came up.

14 Photos Of San Francisco Landmarks Under a 'Bladerunner 2020' Orange Sky

Totally unrelated, and yet:

This morning I thought I should reduce the brightness on my screen (because HEADACHE), but the ancient external monitor doesn't accept system brightness settings.

It does however respond to the Windows 10 "Nightlight" feature (which windows, in its magnanimity, allows you to use at any time of the day) - like on phones, this reduces the brightness of the blue component.

Finding 1: your eyes very quickly adapt to this, when set at a mild level like 25%. I looked away and looked back and thought it had turned off, but nope.

Finding 2: you can adjust the level to extreme orange. My screen then looked just like those photos.

Aaand the effect does not affect screenshots so you'll just have to imagine it.

[BrotherMan]