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Started by Martinus, July 03, 2011, 03:17:05 AM

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Valmy

Yeah time for the incredibly rare December freeze in Texas. Please don't fail us grid.

No snow either so not a white Christmas, just a very cold one.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 21, 2022, 06:24:36 PMLooks like we have a death storm coming in. :(

What you call a "death storm", we call "Tuesday".

-35c this morning.
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Valmy

Yeah well Tuesday for Texas could be anywhere from -10c to 30c. Sometimes on the same Tuesday.

Shroedinger's winter.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

Quote from: Valmy on December 22, 2022, 12:44:31 PMYeah well Tuesday for Texas could be anywhere from -10c to 30c. Sometimes on the same Tuesday.

Shroedinger's winter.

I do hope you guys don't get a repeat of last year. :hug:
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Valmy

I know. I spent the last year or so writing and reviewing new rules for extreme weather and coordinating with generators to get those standards implemented. But did they? Well I guess we will find out  :ph34r:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

The dryness at least ensures the wind turbines will be fine.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

Quote from: Valmy on December 22, 2022, 02:03:14 PMThe dryness at least ensures the wind turbines will be fine.

Hopefully everything will hold, but Alberta's power grid has been issuing warnings and threatening rolling blackouts the last two days or so.  The extreme cold, plus some generating difficulties, plus no wind is all hurting.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9364926/cold-weather-grid-alert-alberta/
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PDH

This time of year is better for the California grid - in Southern Cal they turn down the A/C to reasonable levels starting in December.
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Admiral Yi

-12F.  Thank Hod no wind.

Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

HVC

Plus 4... but it's raining and will turn to frozen rain later today when temperatures go down to minus 9C
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Tamas

You guys really need to switch to civilised ways of measuring temperature.


Grey Fox

Quote from: Tamas on December 23, 2022, 07:11:20 AMYou guys really need to switch to civilised ways of measuring temperature.



:D

1 celcius.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

HisMajestyBOB

The wind chill in the DC area is dropping below zero, which I can't remember happening here before, at least since I've lived here. I'm tempted to step outside just briefly to see just how cold that feels.
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Valmy

The water heater on the north side of my house froze again. No running water in my bathroom again. -10C in central Texas this morning.

Fortunately the only similarity to Feb 2021 so far. Power is on and no ice besides the ice caused by the morons who didn't turn their sprinkler system off.

Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."