Weather WTF

[garbon]

Why do all these more obscure weather terms have Spanish names?

[KRonn]

The heavy storms and possible tornadoes were supposed to hit late yesterday and overnight where I am. But we just got some rain, and not all that heavy either. Could have used more rain, though not the nasty weather stuff.

[sbr]

Supposed to be the hottest day of the year here.  They say it might hit ... 100!!

[Razgovory]

Supposed to be the hottest day of the year here.  They say it might hit ... 100!!

You bastard!

Fortunately we are only having temps in the high 90's this week.  After week and week of mid 100's.  This is the worst summer I remember, and last summer wasn't exactly good either.  Yard looks like a desert.  All the grass is dead.  There are cracks in the ground a foot deep.  There was some thunder last night, but I don't know if it rained.  If it did, it wasn't much.  A few weeks ago I heard we had a deficit of over a foot of rain this summer.  Every county in the state is federal disaster area in regards to crops.  You can walk half-way across the Missouri river without getting your feet wet, it's that low.  This is bad shit.  There's been grass and brush fires which I don't recall ever happening in the area.  Guy's barn went up in flame cause he some old gas cans in there.  Burned up all his fields and hay bails.

[sbr]

It's kinda humid too, around 40%. 

[Eddie Teach]

It's been raining a lot here, yet that map somebody posted shows us in a drought. 

[CountDeMoney]

It's kinda humid too, around 40%. 

Shit, the other day it was 90 degrees with 80% humidity.  It was like a bad Vietnam war movie.

[HVC]

Too hot. I blame hans.

[KRonn]

Hot and humid the last couple of days here in eastern Massachusetts. But much of last week was cooler, with some heavy rain showers coming through at times.

[Ed Anger]

INCOMING!

[Ed Anger]

Sweet Jesus, that was a wild thunderstorm.

[sbr]

We hit 100 but the humidity dropped to under 15%.  I stayed inside in the ac all day until now, out to get teriyaki for dinner.  High 80s now, its nice.

[Admiral Yi]

Sweet Jesus, that was a wild thunderstorm.

Must be the front we caught Thursday night.  Sounded like the opening of Operation Uranus.

[CountDeMoney]

This humidity shit is for other continents, man.

[Syt]

According to the NOAA, this is the warmest year in the U.S. since they've started keeping records in 1895, on average +4.5F over average Jan-Jun.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/updraft/archive/2012/07/noaa_2012_hottest_year_on_reco.shtml

Also on their webpage:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20120119_global_stats.html

According to NOAA scientists, 2011 was a record-breaking year for climate extremes, as much of the United States faced historic levels of heat, precipitation, flooding and severe weather, while La Niña events at both ends of the year impacted weather patterns at home and around the world

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html

According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average. For the contiguous United States alone, the 2010 average annual temperature was above normal, resulting in the 23rd warmest year on record.