Worst weather, ever...

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

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?

ROTFL!

I saw that stupid movie with my 14 year old son, who though it was great.

I, of course, kept laughing out loud at inappropriate times... I really
liked it when the helicopter pilots froze to death more or less instantly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:NcaFd.2274$IV5.2192@attbi_s54...
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?

ROTFL!

I saw that stupid movie with my 14 year old son, who though it was great.

I, of course, kept laughing out loud at inappropriate times... I really
liked it when the helicopter pilots froze to death more or less instantly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah, I did the same thing... you'd think that the guy had been dipped in
liquid Nitrogen or something! Obviously the Hollywood screenwriters never
heard of adiabatic heating of gas as it compresses (aka Chinook wind). Even
if you could find -200F air in the upper atmosphere, by the time it made it
to sea level it would be above freezing. Of course, the movie wouldn't be
as exciting if they couldn't make this stuff up...

Dean

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)

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.

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)

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

Actually, most Iowans I know (including me) would vastly prefer snow to the
crap we've been getting.

There's just not much you can do with freezing rain and sleet.

(Although, incredibly, our schools are OPEN today! All the school districts
around us are closed -- again -- but the "powers that be" in Iowa City
must've finally felt the pressure from parents to stop canceling school
while the rest of us kept going about our business as usual.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ok, now here's a good one.... Freezing drizzle advisory this morning
changing to rain in the afternoon with warmer (35F) temps. So most of the
area's schools were 2 hours delayed. Township roads were pretty slippery,
County and state roads were fine. So what does our local school do???? No
delay, send the busses out this morning on the ice THEN declare they will
cancel school... When??? at 1pm!!! Just so they can call it a full day
towards their 180 school days. And what's the weather now at 2:45?? 35
degrees and rain, roads are clear... un freakin real.
Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:ghaFd.2565$eT5.2082@attbi_s51...
It's all over if Jay posts a picture of himself measuring a snowdrift
with a ruler.

Actually, most Iowans I know (including me) would vastly prefer snow to
the
crap we've been getting.

There's just not much you can do with freezing rain and sleet.

(Although, incredibly, our schools are OPEN today! All the school
districts
around us are closed -- again -- but the "powers that be" in Iowa City
must've finally felt the pressure from parents to stop canceling school
while the rest of us kept going about our business as usual.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"