Storm in a tea cup: The weather thread

[Guy Profumo]

This is almost beautiful, but again, ridiculous

Bay Bridge?

Is the one on the bottom here the Golden Gate Bridge?


https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/st...32267820937218

[ursus arctos]

That is the Bay Bridge
The one on the other post is in Oroville

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1303715369492897806

[San Bernardhinault]

Oroville's not having a great couple of years.

[ursus arctos]

Not a golden age for them for sure

[Guy Profumo]

That is the Bay Bridge
The one on the other post is in Oroville

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1303715369492897806

Thanks.

[Uncle Ethan]

Apparently ANTIFA are starting all the fires, according to people Twitter and Facebook. This reflects the many claims spread around (including by one of the Trumps) about arson being the cause of many bushfires in New South Wales earlier this year. It has subsequently been confirmed that none were deliberately lit.
http://https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/fires/12636972

[3 Colours Red]

according to people Twitter and Facebook.

Where's that salt? I'm gonna need a pinch.

Turns out the woman who invented gender reveal parties has a gender non-conforming child and has gone all Oppenheimer on her creation.

[Guy Profumo]

So if "wildfires are raging from Washington State to Southern California" what are the Canadians doing right in British Columbia to stop them happening?

[ursus arctos]

My guess is a combination of more favourable climate and meaningful regulation

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1304183167708876801

[S. aureus]

https://twitter.com/jason/status/1304081099153313793

[S. aureus]

https://www.sfgate.com/california-wi...t-15559404.php
Bay Area air quality may be worst in the world right now.

[Balderdasha]

Me and my husband were discussing yesterday the way that most people seem to be viewing 2020 as an anomalously bad year and that next year things will "go back to normal". But that's not the case. The wildfires, the new viruses, they're the result of a culmination of decades of over-consumption, over-development, deforestation, rampant capitalism and consumerism, pressure on wild species conflicting with the expansion of human habitats, climate change, etc, etc. This is the new normal and it's only likely to get worse.

[ursus arctos]

At least over here, election anxiety is getting in the way of that being appreciated

[Amor de Cosmos]

My eyes are itching like mad today. The smoke doesn't seem that bad (we've certainly had it thicker in recent Summers) but somehow it's more debilitating, for me at least.

[Amor de Cosmos]

So if "wildfires are raging from Washington State to Southern California" what are the Canadians doing right in British Columbia to stop them happening?

Until recently we've had an unusually cool Summer, with just enough rain to keep the fire hazard relatively low. That could still change, and, locally, the smoke from across the line is very unpleasant. (see above.)

[Guy Profumo]

Until recently we've had an unusually cool Summer, with just enough rain to keep the fire hazard relatively low. That could still change, and, locally, the smoke from across the line is very unpleasant. (see above.)

Yeah.

It was largely rhetorical.

I can't see how southern British Columbia is markedly different in climate and forestation to northern Washington

(I have seen "Twin Peaks" you know)

[Satchmo Distel]

https://twitter.com/wxkaitlin/status/1305865150835159041

[ursus arctos]

25 inches of rain!

[Satchmo Distel]

Storm surge is an equally perilous prospect.

[San Bernardhinault]

I know that in the end storm surge is often much worse - much the mental idea of 2 feet of water falling from the sky is so much harder to comprehend, for me, than the tide pushing up an extra few feet. It's irrational, but it's just so hard to get my head around that amount of liquid coming out of the sky.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Mild, bright sunshine and very breezy in my neck of the woods today. Just about my favourite weather and just what I always tend to associate with the month of September.

Sunny but windy days also remind me of the best bits of summer holidays at the English or Welsh coast, swimming in the cool, crashing waves and then well-earned ham sandwiches and fruit pies for lunch.

[Capybara]

Yes, it's a lovely, sunny early Autumn day here. I shall go for a walk later.

[San Bernardhinault]

I mentioned on the Mundane thread that the leaves are beginning to change. We've got to the time of year where the weather maps appear to look like this



The weather forecast spends as much time on Leaf Peeping (yes, non-New Englanders, that is the term they use up here) as they do on things like rain or sun.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I mentioned on the Mundane thread that the leaves are beginning to change. We've got to the time of year where the weather maps appear to look like this



The weather forecast spends as much time on Leaf Peeping (yes, non-New Englanders, that is the term they use up here) as they do on things like rain or sun.

Look like what?

[Gangster Octopus]

Ah, so that wasn't just me...