ARCTIC BLAST GOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Great Rumbler]

Twenty minutes ago it was 76 degrees and now it's about 64. It's supposed to snow up to four inches tomorrow.

[EdenMaster]

I cast Blizzaga on you. It's just happening very slowly.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well I cast Blizzaja! It was hot, like "I should have worn shorts or something" hot yesterday, and now it's frickin' cold, and yeah, it'll likely snow.

You like in Oklahoma GR, just like me. Is any of this really new to you? Granted, I'm not sure what part you live in, but up in Tulsa it's pretty much the meeting point (with some variation of course) of the warm and cold fronts.

[Great Rumbler]

Is any of this really new to you?

Not really, but it still surprises me every time.

I live in the extreme southern part of the state.

[Dark Jaguar]

That explains a lot.

[Weltall]

I live in the mountains, now. If I don't see snow, and a lot of it, I'm going to demand a refund.

[Dark Jaguar]

The mountains? Like, up high? People LIVE there?

[Great Rumbler]

It's almost down to freezing now.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yep, pretty "artic" isn't it?

[A Black Falcon]

Freezing? Arctic? Bah!

... no snow yet. Warm. Dark before 4:30pm, but I haven't even needed my winter coat more than a few days so far...

[Dark Jaguar]

Dark before 4:30 ?! Suddenly the talking head in Brain Age talking insane about night and day makes sense!

Around here it varies from sun setting at 6:00 to sun setting at 9:00, depending on the time of year.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, by 4:30pm the sun is down. Closer to 4:00 than 4:30, probably, around now... Maine is on the eastern edge of the eastern time zone, so the sun rises and sets here earlier than in the rest of the timezone...

It is near the shortest time of the year -- the winter solstice (mid December) is the shortest time of the year. By Christmas the days are getting longer again, though it takes a while for anyone to notice...

[Dark Jaguar]

I swear if a 3 is anywhere near the hour part of your clock when the sun sets I'm going to fire the time fairy that runs your state's sun around the place.

[A Black Falcon]

Looking at charts they claim that the sun doesn't go down before 4:00pm, but when it's setting between 4 and 4:30 for 2 1/2 months there's bound to be some times when it's not quite 4 yet when it sets... :)

There has been talk of making daylight savings time permanant or moving to Atlantic time to move back the sunset (and the upcoming "daylight savings time will be a month longer" thing (nationwide) will affect it), but when you're working with 9 hours of daylight at midwinter there's only so much you can do...

[Dark Jaguar]

I wouldn't mind eventually just deciding one way or the other in terms of daylight savings time. You know, you can look up (or mathematically predict) the exact moment the sun rises and sets for every day of the year for your location, past, future, whatever, with I believe accuracy of up to a couple centuries.

And now for some information about Oklahoma climate as quoted from Wikipedia. Note that I've never heard a local refer to a "5th season".

Climate

Oklahoma is a state dominated by contrasting cold and warm air masses which collide east of the Rocky Mountains. As can be expected, this results in a wide range of weather throughout the state, ranging from a borderline humid subtropical climate zone near the southeast part of the state to a semi-arid climate in the High Plains of the panhandle. While there is some variation in temperature in the state, with the south portion on the Texas border averaging an annual mean temperature of 62 °F, and the panhandle averaging under 54 °F, the main climatic difference in Oklahoma is precipitation. The southeast corner of the state near the Ouachita Mountains averages over 52 inches of precipitation a year. Moving west from that point, the precipitation decreases rapidly- for each 10 miles traveled west, the precipation is approximately 1 inch less. The driest part of the state is the extreme western panhandle with less than 16 inch annually.

The most notable feature of Oklahoma's climate is, of course, its thunderstorms. While Oklahoma averages from 40-60 days of thunderstorms throughout the entire state, which is less frequent than thunderstorm activity in parts of the Southeast United States and the central Colorado Rockies, Oklahoma thunderstorms, which occur in what locals call a "fifth season" from April through July tend to among the most severe in the world. During this "fifth season" colliding cold and warm air masses turn the entire state, especially the central part of the state into the heart of Tornado Alley. Central Oklahoma is the most tornado-prone area in the world, not only in terms of number of tornadoes(which exceeds 10 per 10,000 square miles), but also in terms of intensity.[6] Some of the most severe tornadoes in history have occurred in Oklahoma, and it is no accident that the National Severe Weather Forecast Center is located in Norman. While central Oklahoma is the epicenter of Tornado Alley, other parts of the state are not immune.

Snowfall is common in Oklahoma every winter, although it is not extreme, ranging from an average of less than 4 inches in the southern part of the state to just over 20 inches on the Colorado border in the panhandle.

[Smoke]

It's 7 °F here.

[Fittisize]

On Monday the temperature was only a few degrees off the record for the coldest day. It was -37 celsius (-34 farenheit). With a wind chill, it felt like -56 celsius (-70 farenheit). Record breaking amounts of electricity in Central Alberta were used. It's cooled off a bit though in the past few days. Yesterday the temperature dipped below -30 for a short time and today the high was a toasty -24. Forecast for Friday is calling for a high of -5, twenty degrees warmer than Thursday and THIRTY TWO degrees warmer just a few days earlier.

I can't ever recall a November being this cold.

[A Black Falcon]

I can't ever recall a November being this cold.

While here, it seems like it's warmer than usual... it hasn't been below freezing much, during the day at least, and it hasn't snowed once yet (though it is often true that it doesn't snow until December, that's not always true)... not cold enough. It rained last week. Blah.

[Weltall]

Definitely warmer here. Here we are, on the cusp of December, and it's been springtime weather... basically since Spring started.

I'm being mocked.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well here it's been pretty warm up until today. Oh, it's raining ICE outside right now.

Well, while "all the evidence" (as if that's how science worked) isn't in, what is in pretty much indicates global warming is our new reality. This crazy arse weather may well be a symptom of that.

[Weltall]

Well, I can't say perpetual springtime weather is a bad thing.

[Great Rumbler]

It's about 30 degrees right now and it looks like some more precipitation is on the way...

[Great Rumbler]

Now it's about 27 degrees and there's small pellets of ice falling all over the place. The snow's supposed to be here in just a couple of hours.

[Dark Jaguar]

The seasons are in chaos! Where's Link?!

[Dark Jaguar]

The land is gripped in terror (also ice)! The ice queen cometh! Who might melt her heart? Why, it's Rudolph!

[Great Rumbler]

School has been cancelled! Yahoo!!!

[Dark Jaguar]

It hasn't been canceled, it's been ENCASED. There's a difference.

[etoven]

I remember days where their would be no school (before I was done with such things and graduated), and the much anticipation by the TV and the closing list scrolled by.

Seeing your school on that list was like banging an hot Asian chick...
with big boobs...
who could kick your ass...
and did....
last night...
in bed :)

[EdenMaster]

an hot Asian chick...
with big boobs...

Like any of THOSE exist.

[Weltall]

[A Black Falcon]

Image not working... *looks at server*

Erm, where did all the stuff go...

*looks around*

/httpdocs/ seems to have the root directory now.

Hmm... looking back, the birthday image was "birthdaystud.jpg" in "www.tcforums.com/images/" -- a directory which now has nothing in it...

[Weltall]

I couldn't remember what it was.

[A Black Falcon]

Does its name matter when it's missing?

*checks further*

... attached images are gone too? What the heck?

[Dark Jaguar]

Seems like someone finally just had to quell that voice saying "that's not how you spell arctic!".

[etoven]

Like any of THOSE exist.

I was refering to the asian women who were manufactored in a factory....

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[Great Rumbler]

... attached images are gone too? What the heck?

All of my comics still work.

[Dark Jaguar]

<img src="http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/christmas_tree.jpg">

Ack! I can't feel my parts!

[Dark Jaguar]

It's a FACT. The weather changed it's mind. So, after a freak snow storm that has already killed a few people who got stranded, now it's actually pleasant "kite flying" weather outside. Like, shorts are called for.

[DMiller]

That foot + of snow is almost gone after the last two days. I thought that snow would last through March.

[EdenMaster]

Same here, we hit 60 today, and most of the snow we had is gone.

[etoven]

That foot + of snow is almost gone after the last two days. I thought that snow would last through March.

:cuss: Ryan and I live in the mountains!!! Where the hell was our snow??????!?!?
We just got asshole neighbors for Christmas!

[etoven]

Answer me this.....
I had a DVD which I started playing at 9:00 PM ended about 11:00 PM, at a volume level I could barley hear from the walk in kitchen which is part of our living room so as to try to be considerate of other people.

And our neighbor claims I was making a god awful noise and at ass rapeingly late hour and threatened to call the police. 11:00!!! That's when the noise stopped!! 11:00 what an ass hole!

EDIT:

BTW: The police recently paid this guy a visit on a domestic disturbance. And, I'm the one who carries on and makes a loud racket.

[Dark Jaguar]

Now there's a topic for another thread. So, are you in a duplex? Is there a space/time wormhole? Is the side of your house where the TV is shaped like a gigantic dish which, when combined with the same shape on the other person's house, results in sound being transmitted at relatively low volume until they coalesce at the dish and recombine into a much stronger sound wave? You say you can barely hear it from your kitchen. Is your kitchen roughly a kilometer from the TV? He's complaining about the time, have you adjusted for the time zone difference?

[Great Rumbler]

It was almost 70 here today. Crazy.

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm telling you the seasons are in chaos!

[A Black Falcon]

There's still a little snow on the ground here... but as it's near the coast, you don't get the massive temperature variations of the central continent.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well yeah, as I posted before Oklahoma happens to be situated at just the right place for crazy weather patterns to be the norm. Still, not sure I remember such a drastic difference between the warm and cold air fronts at this time of year...

[A Black Falcon]

Oceans moderate temperatures, so there will be a greater temperature variation in the interior of a continent than on the edges... 70 degrees in winter almost certainly wouldn't happen here (it's actually cold most of the time... :))... though the fact that Maine is a lot farther north than Oklahoma has something to do with that too, certainly. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

It's not even just that. In a standard land mass, there's still not that drastic a change. I've posted it before, but being right in the middle of two mountain ranges forming a sort of weather tube of mixing currents from north and south, meeting right around north Oklahoma and south Kansas has some interesting results. Namely, tornadoes and wild weather fluctuations. Of course the weather doesn't really have the right conditions for a tornado this time of year.

[Fittisize]

There is still a hell of a lot of snow around but the weather has been above freezing at some points this past week.