How About That Weather, Huh? 2020 Edition

Boy, talk about a storm yesterday!
We had what was called a derencho, which is wide-spread wind damage event caused by severe thunderstorms. The line of storms which raced through the Go City area was over 200 miles long. According to the NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, the derecho tracked about 770 miles in 14 hours (this one got its start in southeast South Dakota and eastern Nebraska during the morning). It hit us out in the western suburbs about 3 PM Central time. We had a burst of strong winds, about 67 MPH according to the news on TV, accompanied by driving rain. After about 15-20 minutes the wind subsided somewhat, but it was still blowing strongly as the rain continued. It finally moved out of the area, going out over Lake Michigan and into northwestern Indiana, but not before causing some damage and knocking down power lines throughout the area. We still don't have electricity in our neighborhood; the only reason I'm on-line right now is because we have a natural gas-powered generator that automatically kicks in during a power failure. And the earliest Commonwealth Edison says power could be restored to our area is 3 PM Friday the 15th! So we'll just have to put up with listening to the generator running right outside our windows for the next four days.
We were lucky - no damage to our house; and the power outage was caused by a tree falling & taking down a power line a quarter mile east of where we live. So it's more of an inconvenience to us than anything else. Other folks around here weren't so fortunate. There were news reports of folks in the city whose cars were crushed by falling trees, and I saw some news clips of trees that had landed on houses as well as falling across streets and blocking them.
But at least the humidity's been reduced - enough that we could switch off the AC last night (after the storm had passed through) and open up the windows.

Wow, TWD. That's intense. Fortunately, it's been very quiet here in DFW area. Just hot.....

Yeah, the power came back on for us at 9:30 yesterday morning, so our generator is now silent once again. And it's so nice to look out the windows at night, and see lights on in other houses and the streetlights glowing. On Monday and Tuesday nights, the only illumination for our neighborhood was from the moon after it rose late each night.
But the heat is building back up in Go City once more, so we have the house buttoned up and the A/C switched on. I'm going to do my weekly grocery shopping tomorrow instead of Saturday since it'll be 90 then.

I lost my A/C yesterday. Just stopped cooling completely. Finally got a technician out today. It looks like the valves in the compressor failed. Bummer. But the system is the original one that came with the house, and it's 24 years old. So I can't really complain too much. My choices are going to be replace the compressor, replace the entire outside unit, or replace the entire system. The technician will call back with the pricing tomorrow. In the meantime, it's 90 degrees in the house and I've got three fans going on me. It's going to be hard to sleep......

Rainy and cool here today.

Mostly sunny and nice here in Go City right now. High temp's supposed to be only in the low 80's, so we have the A/C switched off and all the windows open. Getting a nice breeze in through the windows, too. But by the weekend, we'll have the A/C back on since it'll be in the low 90's then (just in time for when I go grocery shopping on Saturday...:thumbdown:).

We had some thunderstorms move through the area about 6 AM local time. I know, because I was awakened by a prolonged clap of thunder. After going to the bathroom & checking the open windows for rain coming in, I went back to bed for a while. It's stopped raining now, and the sun's playing hide-and-seek in the clouds. The Weather Channel website says we could get more rain here around 8 PM.
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Rained over night, got fairly warm and after tomorrow it is supposed to cool off around the Arch

Typical Florida weather--hot during the day with occasional evening thunder-boomers. We won't see cool weather until about the last week in October--first week in November.

We've had an early cooldown up here in Go City. Thunderstorms last night & rain showers throughout the day have lowered the temps into the mid-60's, where they'll stay through the end of the week. And what with the sun setting earlier now that September's here, the overcast skies seem even more gloomy than usual.

Thanks heavens that it was raining when I got back home from Oregon. it cooled things down real nice, and its been relatively cooler since then, only in the low 90's. This made the house much more tolerable. I have a window AC unit cooliong down the living room, and I just spend all my time there.

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Originally Posted by jeriddian

Thanks heavens that it was raining when I got back home from Oregon. it cooled things down real nice, and its been relatively cooler since then, only in the low 90's. This made the house much more tolerable. I have a window AC unit cooliong down the living room, and I just spend all my time there.

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That reminds me of a tale about our first years in the house my family now occupies in the western 'burbs of Go City. When we moved in, we discovered that the previous owners had left a window-mounted AC unit in the master bedroom on the second floor. So when it got hot out, we'd close all the windows upstairs and switch on that AC full blast. It kept the upstairs nice and cool provided we kept the door at the bottom of the 2nd-floor stairway closed as well. After a couple of years, my folks spent the money to have a central AC unit installed to keep the whole place cool, and got rid of the window unit (we've had central AC in the house ever since). Interestingly enough, the window AC unit had a unique electrical plug - one with vertical prongs instead of horizontal ones like most other appliances use - to connect to the house's electrical system. And the outlet required to plug it in was a special one that had vertical slots to fit that plug. However, after we switched to central air conditioning, we never replaced that outlet with a conventional one. It's still in the wall plate, on the right-hand side, under the two northern windows in the master bedroom.

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Originally Posted by jeriddian

Thanks heavens that it was raining when I got back home from Oregon. it cooled things down real nice, and its been relatively cooler since then, only in the low 90's. This made the house much more tolerable. I have a window AC unit cooliong down the living room, and I just spend all my time there.

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That reminds me of a tale about our first years in the house my family now occupies in the western 'burbs of Go City. When we moved in, we discovered that the previous owners had left a window-mounted AC unit in the master bedroom on the second floor. So when it got hot out, we'd close all the windows upstairs and switch on that AC full blast. It kept the upstairs nice and cool provided we kept the door at the bottom of the 2nd-floor stairway closed as well. After a couple of years, my folks spent the money to have a central AC unit installed to keep the whole place cool, and got rid of the window unit (we've had central AC in the house ever since). Interestingly enough, the window AC unit had a unique electrical plug - one with vertical prongs instead of horizontal ones like most other appliances use - to connect to the house's electrical system. And the outlet required to plug it in was a special one that had vertical slots to fit that plug. However, after we switched to central air conditioning, we never replaced that outlet with a conventional one. It's still in the wall plate, on the right-hand side, under the two northern windows in the master bedroom.

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I think the reason for that is because that particlular plug is used for high amperage appliances, usually 30-40 amps. This differentiates it from the standard plugs which are limited to 15-20 amps, thus the wiring for that plug has to be of a thicker gauge by code.

We're getting the first snow of the season here at the campy condo.
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We missed our first snow by a 100 miles. St Louis almost had snow before Halloween...this whole year has been screwed up.

Today was sunny but cool - highs in the mid-40's. Supposed to go up into the 50's tomorrow, with no rain for the trick-or-treaters. It's supposed to go into the high 50's, and even into the 60's, around here by the middle of next week.

Frost in the morning, warmed up a little and is sunny.

Sunny out now, 59° hereabouts. Perfect weather for the kids to go trick-or-treating! :biggergrin:

Won't be much trick or treating here.

Our grandkids are doing the T or T thing tonight. Nellie is Elsa (or Anna? whatever) from Frozen and Robbie is the Flash.

We had sunny but cool weather here today in Go City. Temps only got up to about 50°. But it's supposed to go up into the low 60's tomorrow & for the rest of this week.

Actually had to turn the heater on last night. It really wasn't THAT cold, but I'm a hothouse flower nowadays.

We had temps in the mid-60's, and plenty of sunshine today. But now that the sun's gone down, we may have to turn the furnace back on.

High around 72, we are going to have basically an Indian Summer for about a week.

Summery weather for the third (or fourth?) day in a row. Sunny with a high in the 70s.

Last day of nice weather, now that the sun room has been finished it seems like it's a good time to get stormy and cold.

Latest track from the NHS has Eta heading for the Panhandle. We'll probably catch some rain and gusty winds though. We've had rain squalls today, but the wind has been manageable.

We shouldn't get anything from Eta.

Other than clouds and maybe a little rain, it's looking like Eta's going to miss us, but you know what they say about tropical storms...

That's OK; we're in the low 70's right now in Go City, but a cold front is set to move in this afternoon. We'll get strong winds and powerful rain showers - even the possibility of severe thunderstorms before it passes to the east tonight. And we'll see a big drop in temperatures overnight. It'll go down to about 36°, then go up to a high of just 50 tomorrow - more seasonal weather for our area.

Looks like Eta's pulling a course correction. Looks like we're going to get a bit more wind and rain than I had thought. Also, we're under a flash flood watch. We're now also under a tropical storm warning. I live well inland, so I probably won't feel the brunt of the winds, but it's probably going to get gusty and more rain beginning this afternoon.

We had some rain last night, but today the clouds cleared out after noon and we had sunny but colder weather. High temps were only in the upper 30's - it's supposed to get into the upper 40's tomorrow, with rain around 4 PM our time. It's expected to be the same for Sunday.

Frost in the mornings now

Temps have been going below freezing overnight up here in Go City, too. I saw frost all over my car yesterday morning when I went out to help my brother put up some of our outdoor Christmas decorations. In fact, today while we were outside making some adjustments on one of our displays, we were pelted with sleet for about an hour.

Going down into the 30's and 40's here in the DFW area. It quickly warms up into the 60-70 range though.

It's not going to get to freezing here tonight at the ARCH, but we have a couple days of rain coming.

We got up to 71° under sunny skies here in Go City today, which was good because I had to clean all the windows before winter set in (my annual chore - bleh!).

Warm here today, rain tomorrow. All the remodeling to the homestead is done now except for staining the deck and some painting in the spring. In the summer I plan to put my HAM radio station back up finally.

Had a few cool days and evenings, but we're back into a warming trend. Going to be a warm Thanksgiving.

It's been seasonably cool around here - low to mid-40's, with a mix of sun & clouds yesterday. It was sunny but cool here today; temps about the same.