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[Handlebars]

Seriously dude? The only reason I added the simplified note about 1945 was because I was trying to forestall you randomly calling me out for cherry picking.

No one else cares but if you must know: The first weather observations at SeaTac were Nov 21, 1944. The first full year of data is 1945. The SeaTac location was designated as the official Seattle station in November 1948. It's accepted convention here to cite weather records back to 1945 because it makes sense to maximize the full year data available from the current official location.

Of course "seriously". Weather stations are sources of many erroneous reports. Where they were and when and how they were made and situated is highly important.
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From: DMcNeil
Sent: 06 July 2018 22:14
To: paul homewood
Subject: Re: Strathclyde
Hi Paul,
Having read that they were blaming a car exhaust I revisited the park. I discovered that the weather station is split over two sites. The anemometer and wind direction indicators are on the roof. The stevenson screen is in the boat compound. I have attached two google screen shots showing the position of the Stevenson Screen as well as photos. The screen shot shows a large tent? close beside the Stevenson screen, but over the last couple of summers and without doubt in our extraordinary weather recently that position is taken up by an ice cream van which stays there all day with it’s engine running to keep the freezers working. The boat compound is in a continual state of flux depending on what events are being held in the park.
Thanks for all the work you put into your site,
Duncan

Yakima providing hot spot for 3 years before being fixed:

Now normal compared to the rest of the area after sensor fixed

In fact, SeaTac had a hot spot sensor problem, too. There are many ways problems with stations occur, from jet exhaust, restaurant exhaust, car exhaust, ice cream truck exhaust, tarmac location, having dark colored roof on box, black roof of building, etc.

 

[john peck]

John Peck, if you dont mind me asking, where do you live?

Olympic Penn. WA. Used to have quite a few coyotes, but haven´t see any in a long while.
Why do you ask?

 

[john peck]

MRAP

Dodge power wagon on steroids? Why this post?

Today it is December and 72 degrees F, or 22.1 C just east of Vancouver. It is December and raining at the Olympic Village in Whistler. It is your weather service ask them.
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So...., no lift tickets then? Off-road skateboards or mud sleds?

 

[john peck]

We get our share of rabbits too but also deer, voles, skunks, and the odd porcupine that invade the gardens. They'll strip the bark off a tree in no time flat. We live captured spike here a couple of years ago during the late hours of the evening using only a neighbor’s water barrel and a bamboo pole. I can only imagine what the neighbors were thinking at the time.

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Skunks, on the other hand, require a more thoughtful approach.

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Indeed, while camped I was once awakened by a skunk the size of a cocker spaniel atop
my sleeping bag staring at me eye to eye. It distressed me considerable..

 

[PedalUma]

I will watch this later today. I cannot right now. Joanna Lambert of UCO is the world's leading expert on North American canids and their impacts on ecosystems.

I will bet that more coyotes means fewer skunks and 40 pound racoons raiding the trash and more bunnies.
Edit: I just watched it. You can jump in at about 31 minutes and watch for five or ten to get the gist.

 

[Taylor57]

LEO plays army. A sad state of affairs. I missed something. Relevance?

What do you mean Law Enforcement plays army? Am I late to the party? (what else is new1)

 

[tomjasz]

What do you mean Law Enforcement plays army? Am I late to the party? (what else is new1)

There's been a growing trend to "militarize" LEO. A local nutter holed up in a house and threatened the cops. Within an hour there were two swat teams in assault vehicles and a dozen officers with AR15's. I'm pleased with our local po-po but these heavy-handed approaches were unknown here even a decade ago. Before anyone gets excited, I'm a strong believer in a proactive police force but too many new officers are suffering the ravages of having served i combat. Not a good formula for community policing in my view. It looks more like what I saw in Rwanda and S. Africa in the '90s. I remain supportive but very uncomfortable.

 

[Mulezen]

Blizzard warning issued for Hawaii with at least 12 inches of snow forecast

A blizzard warning has been issued for Hawaii, with at least 12 inches of snow forecast this weekend.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Taylor57]

Taylor 57 It’s like a book marker. I want to read more on global warming and climate change. Interesting stuff to read on my break . I know it's weird but so is the weather we're having now. Blizzard on the Big Island and thunder storm on Oahu.

Boy, now I'm really lost. I know this is the off topic Green Room (last time I checked) but are we talking about police brutality or global warming now?

 

[PedalUma]

Boy, now I'm really lost. I know this is the off topic Green Room (last time I checked) but are we talking about police brutality or global warming now?

Nutters have also been an ongoing theme. As well as how we respond to them.

 

[Taylor57]

Nutters have also been an ongoing theme. As well as how we respond to them.

Nutters?

 

[DaveMatthews]

Nutters?

Crazy people.

 

[Art Deco]

Crazy people.

People crazy enough to spend thousands of dollars on a bike you still have to pedal up the hills can't really say much about other crazy people .

 

[DaveMatthews]

People crazy enough to spend thousands of dollars on a bike you still have to pedal up the hills can't really say much about other crazy people .

But but but... it's a GOOD kinda crazy!

 

[john peck]

But but but... it's a GOOD kinda crazy!

Better than the kind that makes the 6 o´clock news, you know, recreational murder.

 

[Catalyzt]

Yeah, that's a ridiculous temp for Penticton B.C. at this time of year.

Today it is December and 72 degrees F, or 22.1 C just east of Vancouver. It is December and raining at the Olympic Village in Whistler. It is your weather service ask them.
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Rain on the lower slopes of Whistler does not seem that unusual except in maybe the dead of winter-- I haven't been there since about 2004 or so, but...

So...., no lift tickets then? Off-road skateboards or mud sleds?

...even then, everyone at the resort was shaking their heads and saying, "It didn't used to be this way."

I remember skiing all the way to the bottom during my one trip there, which I think was in March. The conditions on the lower slopes were almost unskiable, never been in slush that deep. I had the same feeling I had at Baldy in So Cal, or at Mt. Waterman-- by 2012 or so, that resort could only open maybe a dozen days a year, and even then it was insanely dangerous-- mud, rocks, slush, grass, dirt-- it was a labor of love and nostalgia by the people running it. (Unfortunately, plenty of dirty diesel engines for the lifts as well.) "This place was designed and graded when the weather was very different."

Not citing this as empirical proof of anything-- of course there's plenty of that elsewhere-- just saying, there are a lot of resorts now where I have that feeling, most skiers I know feel the same way, and it's pretty spooky and unnerving.

 

[PedalUma]

Better than the kind that makes the 6 o´clock news, you know, recreational murder.

It is weird to me that someone could use the Interstate to cross state lines with a bow and arrow, go out into the woods and shoot a dear and would get into more trouble than someone who uses a military grade gun to hunt humans in their natural habitat across state lines. That is nuts.

 

[Taylor57]

It is weird to me that someone could use the Interstate to cross state lines with a bow and arrow, go out into the woods and shoot a dear and would get into more trouble than someone who uses a military grade gun to hunt humans in their natural habitat across state lines. That is nuts.

Welcome to the Green Room!

 

[Handlebars]

It is weird to me that someone could use the Interstate to cross state lines with a bow and arrow, go out into the woods and shoot a dear and would get into more trouble than someone who uses a military grade gun to hunt humans in their natural habitat across state lines. That is nuts.

No, that is purely fantasy.

 

[Handlebars]

Suppsedly Xi was not used because it's a common surname. But they did use Mu, which is a much more common surname. There's no end to deceptions from the WHO.