Rex started an interesting weather challenge today. https://virily.com/virily_poll/weather-challenge-and-our-weather/ is the link to his post. The concept that Rex is driving towards is the newish concept o Micro-weather. Many small stations are producing results over a broader field of study. The initial concept of Micro-weather it gets more data. The secondary intent is to provide a unified view of the weather. Recently the “outskirts” of Hurricane Dorina flowed over where I live. The primary impact (we are more than 100 miles from open water) was a fairly brisk wind with gusts up to 40 miles per hour. Hurricanes tend to be much larger than people realize. Just 20 miles to the west of me, the sustained wind dropped down to less than ten mph with gusts around 14-20 mph.
The link is to my Youtube channel. I post a daily weather video (time-lapse) that I call Yesterday’s weather forecast today. When it is hot and uncomfortable I also add Snarky to the title. The time-lapse video comes from a Bloomsky weather station. Bloomsky takes video all day long and then using their software creates a 20-second time-lapse video of the day. It is, however part of a much larger Micro-weather grid. There are around 100 Bloomsky systems or more in the State of Maryland. The variance between the various systems can be significant. For example, in the middle of July, it is often 7-degree warmers in Washington, DC, then it is in Germantown, Maryland. But it can also be 4 to 5 degrees cooler in Annapolis by the water.
But to respond to Rex’s challenge. I live in Germantown Maryland. On a map, I am 22 miles north of Washington DC and roughly 31 miles south of Frederick Maryland. I am 4 miles from the Potomac River. I am 53 miles from the Chesapeake Bay. This morning at 5L30 am EDT (we switch to Standard time in November), the temperature outside was 58.7 degrees. The sky was clear.
Closer to the mountains (Appliahsian mountains) the temperature in Western Maryland was about 4 degrees cooler. Washington DC had a morning team of 63 degrees.
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Question of
Was this summer too hot for you?
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Yes
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No
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Do you have a themometers at your home?
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Yes
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No
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Have you ever lived through a hurricane?
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Yes
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No
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Have you ever lived through a tornado?
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Such a detailed observation of temperature deviations between nearby locations.
that is the beauty of Micro weather!
Tornadoes are exceptionally rare in Oregon and Montana, but a lot of people don’t realize that we do/did get hurricanes in Oregon. They’re called typhoons in the Pacific, but it amounts to the same thing and the Oregon coast sometimes gets pretty battered.
Yes Typhoons are bad news!
Thanks Rex!!!
We face hot weather in India and Australia but no other problems.
we have hot weather, droughts it has been a bad summer
Not tornadoes or hurricanes in Spain!!!! Every summer is the hottest summer ever. I do not know how this is going to end
my gut is not well at this rate!
We have had a few storms or cyclones but not a hurricane that others experience.
they call them typhoons in the pacific!
I would figure NZ would get the occasional bad storm!
Yes, we do get some bad storms..
you are very close to the roaring 40s, the storm zone of the Pacific!
We get the equinox winds in spring..from the Tasman
yeah you are right smack in the middle of that zone.
There are places I have been around Auckland on stormy days where I had difficulty standing up in the wind taking photos.
You have the interesting reality of being surrounded by water, but, the mountains that protect the interior. You also have the advantage of being a smaller island chain, storms don’t last long!
Q: Was this summer too hot for you?
Yes (6 votes) – 67%
No (3 votes) – 33%
Q: Do you have a thermometer at your home?
Yes (4 votes) – 50%
No (4 votes) – 50%
Q: Have you ever lived through a hurricane?
Yes (5 votes) – 63%
No (3 votes) – 38%
Q: Have you ever lived through a tornado?
Yes (4 votes) – 50%
No (4 votes) – 50%
It was very hot summat this year
Yes it was, July 2019 was the highest average temperature recorded for the entire world! (62 degrees F average for the planet)!
I lived in Chicago for a while, so tornados were pretty common…
i saw a tornado once on the north side of Chicago that was actually on Lake Michigan (they call them water spouts). It was interesting to watch.
sounds like it would be
I also saw one that was literally on the other side of the street from where we lived. My sisters, mother and dogs ran to the safe room in the house. I mean ran!
you don’t want to be anywhere near a window in that scenario. in my family, it was the basement
we didn’t lose any windows, but the next row of houses over had the wind (tornado side) facing windows all explode!
yowzah. clean up the glass, plywood over the windows…
Plywood on the windows, one of my buddies back then spent the day sweeping up glass…
yeah, that sounds about right. glass and debris…
He was not happy. The rest of us were out playing football (a bunch of the backyards all came together, no fences so it was our football field.)!
Fortunately, we have no hurricanes and tornadoes in our country. For our situation, the summer was above average (temperatures were around 35 degrees Celsius). But now we have cold nights (about 5 degrees) and slightly higher daytime temperatures.
we had a very similar problem in the US. Our average temperature was 5 degrees (2 degrees C) above normal.
I live in such an area that there are no hurricanes and tornadoes, dear friend … because there have been none so far
How is your weather now, my friend? temperature? Rainy?
Currently we have a beautiful sunny and abnormally warm autumn … this weekend they forecast up to 25 degrees which is 10 to 15 degrees too warm for this time of the year .. morning temperatures are still quite normal …. this morning it’s foggy and 5 degrees and so the weather is expected to continue into the beginning of the second week
Very nice – you are a little warmer than we are, but roughly the same weather. Thanks pal!!!
But it’s similar to you …. it’s great I just don’t know if it’s good for nature
it is not good for nature at all. Very sad.
I think so too, dear friend
Great way to monitor your weather. You know all about my weather. Will check out this new challenge.
yes I do know your weather! Rex hasn’t weighed in on if I got the challenge right!
We are starting to have now hurricanes storms that weren’t common in my country.
The weather is always evolving and changing. Sometimes not for the better!
Now its just plain rainy weather here for the last two months. During the day it gets hot and humid and it pours by the buckets at night.
is it the monsoon season?
I am a fan of rain falling at night!
That time lapse was so cool. I love how the time and temp are stamped on it. That was really cool. I will have to go look up what Rex has in store. Sounds intriguing for sure. No hurricanes for me, but a few tornado touched down very very close, too close for comfort for sure.
Tornados are scary! Thanks for the weather video comment! I love making my own time-lapse videos…
Oops made a mistake when answering your poll. I never lived through a hurricane but have lived through a small tornado which brought on high winds but no physical damage compared to other sections of the Outaouais valley. Here the temperature is nice and tolerable with cool to cold nights. But our Canadian Prairies are suffering from major snow storms this October just like your North Middle States such as Montana…
It is always interesting, I knew that Canada has occasional tornados.