Todays Weather where you live?

[Miss B]

Yes, the Subways always get the worst of flash flooding. Luckly I don't take the Subway more than about 2 or 3 times a year. Most of where I need to be is within walking distance, or a short Bus ride. I'm just afraid walking in the streets is going to be a chore if we got that much rain that couldn't be drained off . . . yet.

 

[eclark1894]

Yes, the Subways always get the worst of flash flooding. Luckly I don't take the Subway more than about 2 or 3 times a year. Most of where I need to be is within walking distance, or a short Bus ride. I'm just afraid walking in the streets is going to be a chore if we got that much rain that couldn't be drained off . . . yet.

It's hard for me to imagine NYC getting flooded. Of course, it's been some twenty years since I've been there (about a year or two before the twin towers fell), but aside from the fact that NYC is basically on an island, the one thing I remember is all those damn hills. Hills everywhere. Or maybe that was just Brooklyn.

 

[Miss B]

No there are hills in other boroughs/counties as well, as New York City is actually comprised of 5 boroughs/counties. Those of us who live here, refer to New York County, also known as Manhattan, as the "City", which IS an island. So is Richmond County for that matter, also known as Staten Island.

 

[eclark1894]

No there are hills in other boroughs/counties as well, as New York City is actually comprised of 5 boroughs/counties. Those of us who live here, refer to New York County, also known as Manhattan, as the "City", which IS an island. So is Richmond County for that matter, also known as Staten Island.

Well, like I said, maybe that was just Brooklyn.

 

[Miss B]

I'm just afraid walking in the streets is going to be a chore if we got that much rain that couldn't be drained off . . . yet.

Well, as it turned out, there were only about 2 corners where there were large puddles. In fact, one corner that's been bad from a heavy rain a couple of weeks ago, is now dry as a bone. It poured major rain over night, but yesterday streets were pretty clear, and that was a huge surprise to me. A happy surprise, but definitely unexpected. I guess all the high winds blew the rain puddles away.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Most of Vine Street Expressway is still shut down after "historic Philly flooding." It's now the Vine Street Canal instead of the Vine Street Expressway. I thought it was a wee bit shortsighted when a news anchor stated this was flooding on a scale never seen before and "never to be seen again." Seriously? Perhaps never before. But given these types of storms and flooding are increasingly common, we most definitely will see "historic" flooding again. We had FOUR tornados from one storm just last month, and SEVEN with Ida. That's almost doubled the number of tornados since 1950.

Scary times we live in. Perhaps, Mother Nature has decided it's past time to remove the most destructive pest on earth.

 

[Miss B]

That's horrific Satira. I haven't see anything like that here, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just not in my neighborhood.

I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to drive, or take an Express Bus, into the City anymore, because trying to get onto a bridge would be a total mess. I'm quite sure the Midtown and Lincoln Tunnels are closed.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

I'm on vacation today, as I was on Monday, so I haven't had to try to drive in this.

 

[eclark1894]

Most of Vine Street Expressway is still shut down after "historic Philly flooding." It's now the Vine Street Canal instead of the Vine Street Expressway. I thought it was a wee bit shortsighted when a news anchor stated this was flooding on a scale never seen before and "never to be seen again." Seriously? Perhaps never before. But given these types of storms and flooding are increasingly common, we most definitely will see "historic" flooding again. We had FOUR tornados from one storm just last month, and SEVEN with Ida. That's almost doubled the number of tornados since 1950.

Scary times we live in. Perhaps, Mother Nature has decided it's past time to remove the most destructive pest on earth.

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Actually, that was a bit crazy to make a statement like that, but to be fair, and NOT trying to start a political debate, Mother Nature may not be entirely at fault here. Sure, it's natural to blame the flooding on Storms and rain, but it may be as simple as poor planning from the people who build the highways and such. When they lay new asphalt and cement down, water that once got soaked into the land, they created more run offs that flowed into small streams and creeks that were never intended to drain off that much water, or they created bottlenecks for water that once WOULD have flowed away, except for trash and debris that fell into waterways, or smaller than needed pipes to direct the flow of water. I've been watching this YouTube channel called Post Ten. He goes out when it rains and clears flooded streets. In almost everycase he's shown so far, it leaves, trash and debris that has caused the water to back up and flood roads, caused ponds and lakes to rise, etc. Water that is blocked because some genius downtown could be bothered to find a more effective or cheaper method to stop the trash and debris from clogging drains.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Of course Mother Nature is not at fault. The most destructive pest the earth has ever known is completely to blame.

 

[eclark1894]

Of course Mother Nature is not at fault. The most destructive pest the earth has ever known is completely to blame.

There are a lot of destructive pests on earth. Amazingly enough, all created by Mother Nature. Still, the point I was making was that no one single cause may be responsible for the flood. Case in point, the fire out in California. Most people associate forests fires with someone being careless with a match. Could also be a drought. Or even the opposite, a lightning strike. Over grown brush or dead leaves. etc. A flood, has been known to be started by something as innocuous as a beaver dam. Or as I mentioned leaves or dead tree limbs blocking a drainage ditch or a river, creek, or stream. I've seen those last two, by the way.

 

[Terre]

Starting to cool down here. No more 90+days for this year I think.

 

[unreal]

There are a lot of destructive pests on earth. Amazingly enough, all created by Mother Nature. Still, the point I was making was that no one single cause may be responsible for the flood. Case in point, the fire out in California. Most people associate forests fires with someone being careless with a match. Could also be a drought. Or even the opposite, a lightning strike. Over grown brush or dead leaves. etc. A flood, has been known to be started by something as innocuous as a beaver dam. Or as I mentioned leaves or dead tree limbs blocking a drainage ditch or a river, creek, or stream. I've seen those last two, by the way.

Disasters are *never* single things. (I say this as an engineer where failure mode analysis was part of the job)

Disasters are where a whole bunch of things go wrong in a negatively reinforcing way.

The other fun thing is "we don't want a single point of failure". Actually we do. We want everything to fail such that it comes down to a single place. Because then we know where to put the safety net

What we don't want is a situation where our safety net fails. This is why we use a safety factor in calculations. aka: ignorance factor. The more we know, the lower it can be. And the more expensive it becomes. Military vs commercial planes is a good example. Generally, you want it low to push performance higher, while still maintaining the same risk. That costs.

A text book example of this is the Titanic. The real problem was, the safety net was insufficient. If any of the contributing factors to the disaster happened even slightly differently, the disaster would not have happened. If the average speed of the ship had been a very tiny fraction of a percent higher or lower, it would not have happened. If they had left port even a few seconds earlier or later. If the water currents had been even slightly different over a span of months, the iceberg wouldn't have been in that exact spot. If the bulkheads had been welded slightly differently. Etc., etc.

Resiliency is something else.

But, back on thread: Warm. Bordering hot (in the sun). Alternating with cool, bordering on cold. Sometimes alternating between extremes in under an hour. 10º drop in 15 minutes, one day this week. Winds from zero to hurricane. Rain from drenching (rarely) to cloudless. Spring in Sydney

 

[JOdel]

We were having a couple of days of 90-degree weather, and then caught the edge of a tropical storm moving north from Baja 2-3 days ago. Got a couple of rather enthusiastic showers from it for a couple of hours. Had a couple of hours of thunder and lightning, and then it was past. Sunny the following day, and now we've had another overcast roll in.

 

[unreal]

We were having a couple of days of 90-degree weather, and then caught the edge of a tropical storm moving north from Baja 2-3 days ago. Got a couple of rather enthusiastic showers from it for a couple of hours. Had a couple of hours of thunder and lightning, and then it was past. Sunny the following day, and now we've had another overcast roll in.

Southern cali? Sounds crazy warm. Is that hot for this time of the year? I lived in SF for a decade but there's no seasons there, as such (16ºC most of the year). Heat came from vents or fireplace

 

[KageRyu]

All I have to say is...
Winter is coming.

 

[JOdel]

Los Angeles's hottest months are typically July through September. But it sometimes slops over into October as well.

The weather predictions are for temperatures in the 70s with a couple of days breaking 80 over the next week. That's not out of line for this time of year. But it ought to be getting fewer days at 90 for a good long stretch this late in the year.

Can never say for certain. We've occasionally had Santa Ana conditions that had it in the 90s at Christmas.

 

[Hornet3d]

Long range forecasts for the UK are suggesting this could be a cold winter for us this year. With multiple power supply companies going bust each week and the cost of gas, electric and petrol all sky rocketing it looks as though this winter could be bleak.

 

[Terre]

We've had so many mild winters in a row now that I don't know what some people will do here if we finally get a hard one. Even when winter storm Goliath hit this area hard it was the only serious weather of that entire winter. We'll see what happens.

 

[unreal]

We've had so many mild winters in a row now that I don't know what some people will do here if we finally get a hard one. Even when winter storm Goliath hit this area hard it was the only serious weather of that entire winter. We'll see what happens.

I'm sure that the media-infotainment complex will "the sky is falling" until they need some other drama to generate clicks.

At least with earthquakes, there's no hype before hand