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utee94

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3906 on: January 19, 2021, 02:15:38 PM »
We got married on July 14th in Austin.  It was-- unsurprisingly-- quite hot that day.

But the wedding was indoors and the evening wedding reception was also mostly indoors, with some outside space that felt fine after the sun went down.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3907 on: January 20, 2021, 09:53:46 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on January 19, 2021, 11:10:27 AM
No one ever explained rain to you?

You need to watch the weather guy.
I don't think the weather guy here in Phoenix has ever mentioned this thing you call rain. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3908 on: January 20, 2021, 09:56:50 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on January 19, 2021, 12:21:13 PM
100 out here is fine - it's like 85 in FL.
As long as it is below 110 it is fine for me.  It is when it get below 80 I get cold. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3909 on: January 20, 2021, 10:04:11 AM »
I almost turn the AC on at 80.It's 25 deg right now and I'm headed out to plow.Much more comfortable than 90 or above and humid.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3910 on: January 20, 2021, 10:58:56 AM »
Quote from: Riffraft on January 20, 2021, 09:56:50 AM
As long as it is below 110 it is fine for me.  It is when it get below 80 I get cold.
if it gets too hot thet shut the airports down

something about reduced lift from the heat

that was a new one on me
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3911 on: January 20, 2021, 11:01:51 AM »
Air density drops as the air gets hotter.  It's a fairly significant item.  Airplanes need air density to fly.  They can still operate with lower weight.

They do a "weight and balance" calculation before each flight, and air temperature is a factor in that.

Oddly enough, humid air is LESS dense than dry air.  This is a lesser factor.

The function of the wing of a plane is to convert DRAG into LIFT.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3912 on: January 20, 2021, 11:07:08 AM »
The one time I drove through Phoenix they had the biggest rain in years

Traffic was a mess

Streets were flooded

People acted like they had never seen rain before

Took us 4 hours to get through town

What struck me was how many were just wading around playing in it
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3913 on: January 21, 2021, 11:02:54 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on January 20, 2021, 11:07:08 AM
The one time I drove through Phoenix they had the biggest rain in years

Traffic was a mess

Streets were flooded

People acted like they had never seen rain before

Took us 4 hours to get through town

What struck me was how many were just wading around playing in it

The ground is hard as a rock and drainage is not good.  It is why you see a large number of retention areas around here. Just not enough.  

We get a rain like that once or twice a year.  I think I read somewhere that we get 90% of our annual rainfall from those few deluges.

When I first moved here in 2013. I had officiated my last football game in Ohio during a torrential downpour, couldn't hardly see across the field.  I moved two days later.  Arrived in Phoenix during the first week of High School Playoff games.  Friday morning we had a good, but not torrential downpour.  Had plans to go and watch a game that night and they were all cancelled. I couldn't believe it considering what I went through the week before in a game.  Found out later it had nothing to do with the rain itself, but the flooding that happens because the ground just can't absorb all that water that comes so quick.  
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3914 on: January 21, 2021, 11:08:43 AM »
Sun bouncing off the snow beautiful,high in the low 40's
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3915 on: January 21, 2021, 11:30:42 AM »
snow is almost gone after the upper 40s yesterday

today another low 40s day, full sun

expecting a bit of snow this weekend
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3916 on: January 21, 2021, 12:09:26 PM »
I was driving to the airport in Kona when it rained.  This is the "Sun Coast", they get rain one day a year usually, and this was it.  Traffic had pulled off to the side of the road, in fact it was not a heavy rain.  I dropped my kids off at the airport and spotted a water spout nearby, that was really strange, to me.

You can drive about 45 miles and be in rain forest, or another 45 and see snow.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3917 on: January 21, 2021, 12:32:39 PM »
My dad was stationed in Hawaii during WW II for a few months and told me it rained in some fashion half the days he was there
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3918 on: January 21, 2021, 12:34:42 PM »
December through April are generally pretty wet there.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3919 on: January 21, 2021, 12:48:04 PM »
The Big Island has almost every climate type extant, I think 11 of 13.  The west side is a desert, the rain one day a year place.  Hilo is a rain forest, over 300 inches a year.

One nice thing about going there is the weather is predictable.
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