SylvanLakeWH 25,490 #1 Posted May 8, 2020 Woke up this morning to low 30's and snow showers... Conformed that it is indeed May 8th... Ah, Michigan in the Spring (summer, fall, winter)... Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice... 2 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,270 #2 Posted May 8, 2020 I've changed over in the last few years from using the phrase global warming too, climate change. Definitely some pretty screwy stuff going on up here in the mountains of Maine once in awhile. Last weekend it hit 76° in our backyard. tomorrow's forecast at high is around 41 degrees after it snows overnight tonight. Just a little. Ground-covering very won't stick. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #3 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) I think climate change is just nature. Goes round in cycles. Go back in history a couple of hundred years or so. River Thames in the UK froze over in 1963. 1683-84, 1716, 1739-40, 1789 and 1814 the ice was that thick they had fairs on it. Edited May 8, 2020 by Stormin 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,022 #4 Posted May 8, 2020 Frost warnings here tonight. My Amish neighbor is working to get several acres of cabbage plants covered. The record low for April 9 was set here in 1940. It will be reset tonight. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,022 #5 Posted May 8, 2020 We could blame it on the Covid. lockdown......not enough gasoline being burned to keep Mother Earth warm. 2 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,772 #6 Posted May 8, 2020 Price of gas these days I woulda thought that would have been the opposite. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cvans 1,009 #7 Posted May 8, 2020 Come on Al Gore! Where are you when we need you? Warm this place up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,772 #8 Posted May 8, 2020 This don't look good.... http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/may-snowstorm-could-bring-bomb-cyclone-thundersnow-to-northeast/ar-BB13NDso?ocid=ientp 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bc.gold 3,403 #9 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) I'll take the Farmers Almanac over Greta. Some Minnesota weather data from the early teens. April Highest Temperature 101 °F (38 °C) April 22, 1980 Hawley Lowest Temperature −22 °F (−30 °C) April 6, 1979 Karlstad May Highest Temperature 112 °F (44 °C) May 31, 1934 Maple Plain Lowest Temperature 4 °F (−16 °C) May 1, 1909 May 2, 1909 Pine River Edited May 8, 2020 by bcgold 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,127 #10 Posted May 8, 2020 https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-147.761&lat=64.837#.XrWcbDMpBow 68°-73°-79° are the Fri-Sat-Sun temps in Fairbanks Alaska. Kinda sounds like the climate is AFU to me! 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,270 #11 Posted May 8, 2020 1 hour ago, WHX24 said: This don't look good.... http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/may-snowstorm-could-bring-bomb-cyclone-thundersnow-to-northeast/ar-BB13NDso?ocid=ientp I should miss that one by about a hundred miles and I'm okay with it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #12 Posted May 8, 2020 3 hours ago, WHX24 said: Price of gas these days I woulda thought that would have been the opposite. You should have been paying the price for fuel here. Gone down a lot since this pandemic started but we can't go anywhere now. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bc.gold 3,403 #13 Posted May 8, 2020 Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) Trump Orders Department of Energy to Replenish U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Coronavirus Era The reserve is stored at four sites on the Gulf of Mexico, each located near a major center of petrochemical refining and processing. Each site contains a number of artificial caverns created in salt domes below the surface. Individual caverns within a site can be up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) below the surface, average dimensions are 60 m (200 ft) wide and 600 m (2,000 ft) deep, and capacity ranges from 6 to 37 million barrels (950,000 to 5,880,000 m3). Almost $4 billion was spent on the facilities. The decision to store in caverns was made in order to reduce costs; the Department of Energy claims it is roughly 10 times cheaper to store oil below surface with the added advantages of no leaks and a constant natural churn of the oil due to a temperature gradient in the caverns. The caverns were created by drilling down and then dissolving the salt with water. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cvans 1,009 #14 Posted May 8, 2020 20 minutes ago, bcgold said: The caverns were created by drilling down and then dissolving the salt with water. And all that salt went where???? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bc.gold 3,403 #15 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Cvans said: And all that salt went where???? The three products of the electrolysis of concentrated sodium chloride solution have important uses in the chemical industry: hydrogen is used as a fuel and for making ammonia chlorine is used to sterilise water supplies, and to make bleach and hydrochloric acid sodium hydroxide is used to make soap, paper and bleach Edited May 8, 2020 by bcgold Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 55,070 #16 Posted May 8, 2020 Here in the mountains of Western North Carolina we have three winters. There is regular winter from November to February followed by a warming trend which is interrupted briefly by "Dogwood Winter" which is a predictable occurrence when the Dogwood trees bloom. Our third winter is "Blackberry Winter" which coincides with the blooming of the blackberry plants. Guess what began to bloom this morning? We have below freezing temperatures in the forecast for the next two nights. Hasn't been colder than fifty degrees at night for weeks. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,127 #17 Posted May 9, 2020 Were record low temps here in the region overnight. A blustery 28° this morning and a dusting of snow here. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnmor 7,302 #18 Posted May 9, 2020 I'm trying to help warm things up, still burning firewood. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjg854 11,349 #19 Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) Fresh coating of snow here in the Finger Lakes this morning, @ 28 degrees, apples trees in bloom as well as the strawberries. Edited May 9, 2020 by rjg854 Picture added 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 25,490 #21 Posted May 9, 2020 No snow, but 30 degrees... BRRR... 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,127 #22 Posted May 9, 2020 Keep in mind... Fairbanks is 73° today! 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C_hasbeen 249 #23 Posted May 9, 2020 35 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Your lumber is gonna get wet! Lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C_hasbeen 249 #24 Posted May 9, 2020 Topeka kansas we have frost in the grass no snow they called for chance tonight again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,022 #25 Posted May 9, 2020 28 F and 28MPH gusts this morning. Strawberries and apple trees are still in blossom and the pear and plum trees have all ready dropped their blossoms. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
