Temperature Timeline

[Uncle Al]

This is what I've been through for the past 48 hours.

Temperature Timeline 2014-03-02.jpg

From bloody hot to light snow on the ground.
Yesterday I had 80*F and my clothes were soaked from working on
a wood fence. Right now, at 17:20 my thermometer is reading 20*F.
Time to stay inside and keep warm

Uncle Al

[hydroman47]

It's currently 20*F at 0545 at this location 35 miles southwest of Austin TX.

[PatJ]

Wow! that is quite a change in temperature.

I can take hot weather or I can take cold weather, but when it changes radically like it did for you, that is when I catch colds, flu, etc. It is the sudden changes that I can't stand.

We may have had a cold winter here in Wisconsin, but it has been a steady cold and once you get used to it, "The cold doesn't bother me."

Hope you get back to 80 soon.

[dillon]

Our temperature dropped twenty degrees F in about two hours this afternoon. It is currently about 28F...this morning it was 60F. I won't be sad to say goodbye to this winer...hurry Spring!

[Kirbstone]

We're too maritime here for amazing temp. swings like that. Nowhere on this Green Isle is more than 60 miles from the sea. Spring has been with us this year since November. No frost to speak of, no snow and early daffs since December, late daffs all down the central reserves of our highways now.
The temps. will remain cool until late May, so our Spring lasts a long time. We did get a Summer last year, but it normally never quite arrives and we find ourselves in Autumn in August again. Patrick's Day here is invariably cold & miserable!......say 10 Centipede/48 Farrenfore, windy & damp.

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I didn't mention the rainfall, of course. You need your macs & wellies all year round here! Dry days come singly, as a rule.

Tom.

[Big and Bashful]

Got my rain kilt, I am sorted! We won't get proper snow until I get rid of my 4*4 and it's chunky tyres. Them's the rules apparently, snow doesn't happen in the West coast of Scottishness, unless you aren't prepared!

[Kirbstone]

Very amusing, B&B and probably true!

We're near the Wicklow Hills here and some close friends live more than a 1000 feet up (nice views!). After our 'Twin Winters' recently when they were dependent on neighbours' 4x4s to get into town for a month on end, they invested in a natty little one for the missus.

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They haven't hardly had a flake of snow since!.

Tom

[Big and Bashful]

Great picture!

[crfriend]

Great picture!

Great pic for sure, but I smell Photoshop -- that or damned fine modeling skills.

Of immediate note is the 90-degree "angle of repose" of the snow-banks on either side of the roadway. I get to deal with enough of the ruddy stuff during the course of a winter that I'm pretty familiar with how it behaves -- and, given the vertical scale, taking an average car at about 4 feet in height, a 16-to-20-foot cut just won't support itself. There's also the fact that what's clearly a "snow-blown" track doesn't show any of the "landing sites" of the removed detritus. Too, what's with the sapling-trees in frame?

Nice try, and it absolutely sums up what we feel like in these here parts by early March, but I call fakery.

[Kirbstone]

Probably doctored. I'll grant, Carl, but the 'saplings' would be the tips of larger trees poking through that depth of snow.

Wherever it is, they drive on the left.....unless the pic. has been reversed! I can however attest that at high altitude in the European Alps in the region of the St. Gotthard, Andermatt to be precise, one year we did drive through snow walls that high which were nigh-on vertical. Everywhere up there the even snow was 8-9 feet deep. Behind our chalet the baskets on a basketball pitch were just visible at snow surface level. They had dug steps into the snow to enable people to get up from the village streets onto the surrounding snow. The snowploughs clearing the streets & roads spray it powerfully some distance away so it falls not in lumps but evenly again. I expect with standing months-long sub-zero temps. it maintains its shape.

We do cross-country skiing, and the little red train along the valley floor (which would take you back if you got too tired) snaked deep between high vertical walls like that. I have my own unretouched photos of that in an album somewhere. Most European countries maintain a 'black road' policy, that means they clean them down to the tarmac. The same applies for the railways, of course.

Tom.

[pleated]

No, it is genuine. Just google "snow canyon Japan"

Snow Cleaning in Japan Snow Canyon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxtCntPsOGE
1.32

Alpine Route Tateyama , Japan 05 May 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4RLY6r6UP4
1.12

http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/2010/12/29/sn ... -in-japan/
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/ne ... k/1507656/

[crfriend]

No, it is genuine. Just google "snow canyon Japan"

Snow Cleaning in Japan Snow Canyon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxtCntPsOGE
1.32

Well, I stand corrected.

However, that's a very special case under very special conditions, and required the road to be completely closed down whilst the snow packed in tight enough to actually support those walls.

I'm glad I don't live there.

[Kirbstone]

Pleated to the rescue again!

He's been filming up in the Wicklow mountains again, pretending it was Japan!!

Tom.

[pleated]

Pleated to the rescue again!

He's been filming up in the Wicklow mountains again, pretending it was Japan!!

Tom.

Who? me? -It was you who posted it!
When I saw that you had posted that photo I was sorely tempted to make a bad joke about Wicklow County Council, though they would be absolutely incapable of dealing with those conditions.

Since you mention filming in the Wicklow mountains I have realised that it must be about 25 years since I did any hillwalking. A group of us used to go up on a Sunday. We did most parts of Wicklow and on bank holiday weekends we camped too. I did a fair amount of photography, mostly on 35mm film.

[Kirbstone]

Ah, Those were the days, long before digital. We also joined groups led by an ex-army experienced trekker and we attacked the Deuce, Mullaghcleevaun, Lugnaquilla &c, but the wife developed knees that couldn't cope, so we walk the 'Barrow Way' and similar flat areas now, more the pity. No spectacular views anymore.....or 30-foot snow drifts, either!

Hence the interest in bridges, now.

Btw. those videos were interesting. They (the Japs) have the same sort of gear as the Swiss, but rather more snow, by the looks of it.

Tom.