ojiito Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Hey Noel, how are you holding up down there? Looks like quite a storm, seems like almost every road in southeast New Mexico is closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 It's not pretty Alex. It's hard to tell how much snow actually fell due to the wind drifts. The stone wall around the front of the house has 5 inches. My back yard lawn shows 14 inches. It's still snowing and is forecast to last into this evening. It's going to be quite cold so the snow won't go away soon unless the air gets very dry and it sublimates. This is not what I moved to the desert for. A good time to do some flight simming. Here's what the Nationla Weather Service predicts for the rest of the week. Blizzard Warning until December 28, 12:00am NOW until 12:00am Mon Blizzard Warning Today Heavy Snow and Areas Blowing Snow High: 28 °F Tonight Snow Likely Low: 14 °F Monday Sunny High: 34 °F Monday Night Partly Cloudy Low: 15 °F Tuesday Mostly Sunny High: 36 °F Tuesday Night Mostly Clear Low: 14 °F Wednesday Sunny High: 36 °F Wednesday Night Mostly Clear Low: 12 °F Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojiito Posted December 28, 2015 Author Share Posted December 28, 2015 Wow, yeah those look like pretty unusual Roswell temps. I am overseas so do not get to participate this time around. But yes, sounds like flightsimming weather. Good luck, hope you stay warm and safe with no major problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Watch the CBS news most lunchtimes here and they had Roswell and the snow in one segment. Looked out for Noel's house but did not see it. All about the weather today with the awful tornadoes, the snow, the unseasonal mild weather with the floods in England and South America.. Hope you all get through this ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 We are really snowed in Alex. And Roswell has no snow plows or snow removal equipment. Looks like the global warming and climate change hoax is working. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlexFlier Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 El Nino does it again. We left Jackson Hole after 10 years because of the long cold, snowy winters. Here in Boone, NC, it's been most unusual with temps in the upper 60's for over a week and a bit of rain. I'm told that back in '93 there was a similar Christmas weather pattern followed by a blizzard in March that closed schools and pretty much everything else for over a week. Mother Nature will have her way. Noel, please be safe and warm. Best wishes for a Happy New Year. ~Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 We have a four foot drift on our front walk and our carport is snowed in. But luckily a guy knocked on my door this morning and offered to shovel the driveway and the walk from the front door to the mailbox. That's a lot of snow to remove. He said he'd do it for 20 bucks but I know how much work it is so I'm going to give him 40. Meanwhile National Weather Service got it right on the blizzard but blew it on the temperatures. They said our high today would be 28 degrees. It's already 36. Our weather forecasting has sucked ever since they closed to local weather stations and forecasters and turned the job over to computers. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojiito Posted December 28, 2015 Author Share Posted December 28, 2015 Meanwhile, relatives reporting 70 degrees in New Jersey on Christmas, and wildfire in California... Yes forecasting is mostly just models now, and modifying certain local areas for known patterns. Much interpolation. I miss all the Flight Service Stations the most. I would have paid that guy the same, 20$ is not enough for shoveling a decent sized driveway. Hang in there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 IT'S SNOWING AGAIN! Last night the temperature got down to 10F. Now new snow on top of the 14 inches I already have in the back yard and the drifts n the front. No garbage collection or mail delivery. This is supposed to be the desert. Maybe I should move to Fairbanks. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Try moving to Scotland. We are told to expect 120cm of rain overnight with 60/70 miles per hour winds Stay warm Kind regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojiito Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 40 minutes ago, birdguy said: Maybe I should move to Fairbanks. Noel Why not, it's about the same temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Have you considered building an ark Ian? Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 We have had so far one of the warmest winters since they began recording temperatures, one hundred years or so ago. It's crazy, the flowers bloom, the birds chirp like in the Spring (and the cats go and chase them). I wish we had a colder winter . But there is an old French saying : "Noël au balcon, Pâques aux tisons" meaning a warm Xmas is followed by a frigid Easter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Is there a corollary to that Dominique? That a cold Christmas means a warm Easter? Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominique Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Actually no, we are on our own to guess in that situation ! But, prudently, the weather being notoriously erratic in Spring, the common wisdom says "En avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil" (in April do not shed even a single thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Geoffrey Chaucer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 We have a similar saying but perhaps being a little further north, Ne'er cast a clout 'till May is out. ('never discard your [warm winter] clothing until the month of May is ended') At the moment we have winter temperatures of +10 c to +15 c, it should be -2 c to 6 c. We have spring blossom starting to show on some trees and the grass needs cutting, since it has never stopped growing. A friend of mine who lives in the south west of England has had daffodils flowering in his garden for three weeks. They should flower in March. Set against that, between 1030 on Christmas Day and 1030 the next day, we had one month's rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Orbx will need to add a few more seasons to their software if the weather doesn,t get back to normal kind regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Doesn't Active Sky do that for us Ian? Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 On 29.12.2015 at 8:12 PM, Ian S said: Try moving to Scotland. We are told to expect 120cm of rain overnight with 60/70 miles per hour winds Stay warm Kind regards Ian 120 cm in one night? That's impossible! I guess you mean 120 mm. Anyway, good luck for you and your loved ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Sorry, I never have gotten the hang of metrication. My brain still thinks in feet and inches. Kind regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoil3 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 120 cm would be 4 ft of rain. 2.5 cm to the inch. Or if it's milimeters, and not centimeters, 25 to the inch, almost 5 inches of rain... Hope it's not 4 ft of rain over night ! Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 A couple months ago Roswell get 4 inches of rain in two hours. It opened up a part of my roof and ruined the ceiling on one of the bedrooms. 4 feet of rain overnight is ark weather. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojiito Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Ugh, that's awful. I'm saving up for a new roof this spring, should come out to a little less than my down payment on the house. Yay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museumkeeper Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 We got 120mm of rain, just as predicted and the town is once more badly flooded around the river. I have lived here for 30 years now and throughout that time the local authority has been debating what to do about it. They are at present contemplating some sort of a barrier between the town and the river but who knows when this will be built. Thankfully I live about two miles from the river and so far my property is not affected. I do feel for those that are though. Thanks for all your concerns and a Happy New Year to you and yours. Kind regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 The snow isn't going to leave this part of the desert anytime soon. Took these pictures in my front yard about an hour ago...ten days after the blizzard. Cities like Denver and Buffalo have the means to deal with snow situations. They have the equipment for it. But Roswell doesn't even have one snow plow. It takes a long time to clear roads with road graders and front loaders. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double J Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 5 hours ago, birdguy said: The snow isn't going to leave this part of the desert anytime soon. Took these pictures in my front yard about an hour ago...ten days after the blizzard. Cities like Denver and Buffalo have the means to deal with snow situations. They have the equipment for it. But Roswell doesn't even have one snow plow. It takes a long time to clear roads with road graders and front loaders. Noel With an average low for Jan of 26F and an average snowfall of 3.5 inches I'm surprised they have zero snow removal equipment. Besides front end loaders and graders are commonplace for snow removal in the snow belt. Most cities simply have blade attachments under their gravel trucks for snow removal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I've lived here for 21 years DoubleJ and the largest snowfall we've had was about 5 inches. Normally we get an inch or two and it's gone in a couple of days. While it gets cold the climate is arid and we get most of our annual precipitation during the summer from thunderstorms. It's not cost effective for the city to store snowplow blades for a once in a decade use. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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