Worst weather, ever...

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and
crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty.

Not this year.


You can blame that cold outbreak down the west coast with the unusual snows
in coastal British Columbia and rains down the west coast through
California. That set up the major front and storm track in a more-or-less
straight line from southern California through Maine. Little weak pulses
are running along that front and keep triggering more precipitation.

And the warm air aloft is creating a huge inversion, trapping the low level
moisture forever. North Platte, 0000Z last evening, had a temperature of
plus 10 Celsius at 5000 feet ASL more or less, and minus 6 at the surface.
And they are what, 2700 feet?? So that's like 15 degrees inversion in 2500
feet?? Serious trap for low-level moisture, the dispersion of which is very
difficult to forecast accurately, until there is a major circulation change.

http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/up.../skewt/lbf.gif (link
evaporates-updates with time)

I expect Iowa would have been similar.

So now the computers expect the next pulse to be a major low, that will
finally draw the cold air down over the entire interior of the continent and
change the storm track completely. By the weekend, things should be back to
the more-or-less normal condition of mild west coast, pushing mild air
inland over the mountains, cold interior all the way down to Texas and the
Gulf, and the storm track up the east coast.

It remains to be seen whether that will persist for a while.

IMHO.

Jay,

Watch out for those giant polar hurricanes that bring incredibly cold air
down from the upper atmosphere in their eye and freeze you instantly in your
tracks... or don't you believe in Hollywood physics?

Dean

http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/airplan/index.htm

Jay Honeck wrote:

Anyone else got the winter blues?

I've actually been finding a few windows in the weather for local
flights(central AZ), but I'm doing nothing but puttering around and
drying out the airframe between storms.

Don't hold your breath for the good weather. The next wave is just
hitting the mountain states and you'll be seeing it soon. This one is
coming from a very slow moving low that's currently on the NV/UT
border. It took 4 days for it to move from the coast to where it is
now (which is why CA had so many problems). It's sucking up large
amounts of tropical moisture from the Pacific and the Gulf of
California.

The flying weather sucks, but it sure is helping out with the drought
conditions in the western states. The Salt River that flows through
Phoenix is running for the first time in 7 years.
John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

E E7 E E7 A A7 A A7
Is this some sort of code?

It's a blues chord progression.

And the next in the sequence is
D D6 D D6 -Z -Z6 -Z -Z6

Jose
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It started snowing last night after four straight days of rain and has been
coming down about an inch an hour for 12 hours. It isn't supposed to let up
until late this afternoon, but then we are supposed to get a week of
temperatures in the 50s.

Jim



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and
crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty.

Not this year. Mary and I have not flown in weeks -- not even the
pattern -- a new record for us. The weather has simply been appalling,
with freezing fog, snow and freezing rain. I've never seen anything
quite like it for such an extended period.

Jose ) wrote:

E E7 E E7 A A7 A A7
Is this some sort of code?

It's a blues chord progression.

And the next in the sequence is
D D6 D D6 -Z -Z6 -Z -Z6

Perhaps it was too "specialized" of a joke, but I felt like breaking out
in song during the original post.

--
Peter

I got the joke!! he he

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
Student Mooney Owner

Peter R. wrote:
Jay Honeck ) wrote:


E E7 E E7 A A7 A A7



Is this some sort of code? Or a pattern to be completed? (The next
sequence should be "F F8 F F8 B B8 B B8", IMHO...)

Inquiring minds...


Very basic blues guitar chord progression.

Anyone else got the winter blues?

Winter blues big time. I schedule my annual for January because it's a
good time to have the plane down but I haven't been able to find a half
hour window to fly the airplane to the shop at DuPage. Bad forecasting
hasn't helped - could have gone a couple of times when ceiling was 2500
instead of the forecast 1000 but insufficient time to get out the
airport, preflight, etc. I've got my rating but ice everywhere.

Is it really the "Worst weather, ever" or is this just more "Bogus
Weather Hype"?



-R

Rob wrote:
Is it really the "Worst weather, ever" or is this just more "Bogus
Weather Hype"?



It's all over if Jay posts a picture of himself measuring a snowdrift
with a ruler.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)