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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2007Ping DAN: Iowa Weather
I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. How are you liking the Iowa weather so far? I imagine it's a bit more... energetic... than you all were used to in California >^.^< Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com > I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. > > How are you liking the Iowa weather so far? I imagine it's a bit > more... energetic... than you all were used to in California >^.^< You could say that! No, the tornadoes hit a hour or so away. We were in a staff meeting when we heard the news. Before we were out of our meeting, the company had dispatched two huge generators to the town hardest hit. I was impressed! I actually am not minding the volatility of the weather. From last weekend through yesterday we had daytime temps in the 70's and low 80's. Yesterday we had rain through most of the day. Then today we had sunshine when I got up, a cloudburst rolled through around noon, we've had sunshine since about 4, and now the dark clouds are moving over again. This is pretty cool! Dan >> I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >had sunshine since about 4, and now the dark clouds are moving over >again. This is pretty cool! IIRC, wasn't there a blizzard or an ice storm or something like that while, or shortly after, you moved? Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com >> I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >had sunshine since about 4, and now the dark clouds are moving over >again. This is pretty cool! IIRC, wasn't there a blizzard or an ice storm or something like that while, or shortly after, you moved? (apologies to anyone who gets this twice - I hit send at this point while still writing. I did send a cancel message, so we'll see...) Just to add, it was in the 90s in Indianapolis today, in and out clouds. Late in the afternoon it clouded up and the temperature started dropping. I was doing some shopping but decided to high tail it back home instead. Good thing, because just as I got home (about 10 minutes) it opened up - and I got stuck in the car until it let up. We had quite literally blinding rain with dime-sized hail, and the wind was not only blowing so hard my car was rocking, but it was constantly shifting direction. I honestly thought we had a small tornado moving through nearby, especially when I got out of the car and heard all the police and fire truck sirens in the area. But no, it was just a particularly strong and (thankfully) fast moving thunderstorm. OTOH (in reference to another thread), I don't think I'll need to worry about deadheading my geraniums for a while. They got flattened, as did my petunias. Think I'll let them dry out a bit and then see what deadheading mother nature took care of for me. Jeanne Hedge ============ http://www.jhedge.com >> I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Dan I bet they say the same thing in Iowa as they do in Ohio: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change." Ginger-lyn >>> I'm assuming the recent tornadoes didn't hit where you live. >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Ginger-lyn That is something I like but get bored with in California. Our weather is extremely predictable about five days out. Jo >> I bet they say the same thing in Iowa as they do in Ohio: "If you don't >> like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change." >> Ginger-lyn > That is something I like but get bored with in California. Our weather is > extremely predictable about five days out. Depends on where you are in California. It's true that some parts are very, very predictable and unchanging, at least over short periods of time. In the Bay Area we have "microclimates", meaning that weather varies in different small pockets that all might be pretty close to each other geographically. It has to do with how hilly the area is, and probably has other factors too. It can be rainy and windy in one neighborhood, and warm and sunny half a mile away. Coming from New England, where weather systems would blanket areas of many square miles, I thought that was the most bizarre thing. Before I moved here, I remember visiting someone who lived in a "windy, foggy" neighborhood. We'd get up in the morning, and to my dismay it would look like there was a hurricane outside. But my host would just say, "Oh, I'm sure it's nice downtown." And it would be! That expression Ginger-lyn mentions, about "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes," was popular in New England, too. I was noticing that when I was in the Boston area a couple of months ago. Weather doesn't change that *fast* around here, but I like to say, "If you don't like the weather in San Francisco, go across the street." Joyce |
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