Weather WTF

[Syt]

Same scene by day:

[Syt]

The rain has stopped, but the water only recedes slowly. There's some concerns about melting snow from the mountains coming down (what was rain in the lower regions came down as snow higher up and we return to warmer temperatures again). Some towns and villages are still cut off, and it will be some time till the extent of the damages will be fully assessed.

[Valmy]

I wonder if this is one of the impacts of the crazy warmth of the Atlantic Ocean last year.

[Barrister]

I have to admit that talk of widespread flooding in September seems kind of crazy.

[Valmy]

What a hot October



What the hell climate? It is fucking 90F in Denver in October.

[Tonitrus]

I am sure that even PDH would agree with me that the normally mild paradise of the Monterey Bay region is slightly on the uncomfortably warm side.

[PDH]

Fuck me with an industrial A/C unit.

104 at UC Santa Cruz yesterday.  The only thing in my favor is that I go down closer to the ocean after work, it was 20 degrees cooler there.

[Savonarola]

We're already getting rain from Milton (I knew he'd come for me one day...)  The current forecasts show it passing over Cape Canaveral (just north of me) Wednesday night/Thursday morning.  They also show it going directly over Tampa earlier Wednesday.

[Savonarola]

We lost power from the storm for a couple hours.  It didn't come up in our entire subdivision until late this morning.  A lot of people have generators.  This morning I saw one of the people in the subdivision had run an extension cord across the street to get power from his neighbor.  In true Florida fashion he had duct-taped the extension cord to the road.

I also see that Marjorie Taylor Greene claims that "They" can control the weather.  It struck me that the world has become a much more confusing place.  In the old days you would have known she meant "The Jews" by "They."  Today she seems to mean.. the government? Democrats? the deep state?

Actually, to her credit, I see that she clarified, she means The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and encouraged people who have suffered loss in a hurricane to sue them.