Where're you from?

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:58 pm

snow isnt anything new, the new thing is that this is the first september, we havent had any snow for like 7 years.

Angelique · Post by **Angelique** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:06 pm

Well, it stands to reason you'd get snow a bit sooner. And of course, every time I'd be amazed that we could get a blizzard in the middle of June (because no matter how long it's been since I lived in California, I still tend to be a bit overly impressed with snow) all the Scandinavians and Canadians I know would say, "Oh, that's nothing!"

CurlyyHairGirl · Post by **CurlyyHairGirl** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:27 am

Originally posted by Angelique
Well, it stands to reason you'd get snow a bit sooner. And of course, every time I'd be amazed that we could get a blizzard in the middle of June (because no matter how long it's been since I lived in California, I still tend to be a bit overly impressed with snow) all the Scandinavians and Canadians I know would say, "Oh, that's nothing!"

Tell me about it, that time we had snow in our town, I was too younge to remember...and it was more like sleet.
Bakersfeild gets it more often than us and its usually hotter there. I have to wait till winter and then go up to the mountains for snow...oh how I do so love it's white fluffyness...untill you walk into a hollow and get stuck waist deep.

Angelique · Post by **Angelique** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:41 am

Oh, I remember. Growing up in Los Angeles, snow wasn't a weather condition. It was something we went to. We didn't go to Mammoth or Frazier Park or Tahoe. (Actually, I never went to Tahoe, anyway.) We "went to the snow." And I remember getting calls from my old buddies in the San Fernando Valley, all excited over how they got a half inch of snow and all the schools closed.
Here, the snow comes to us, usually in feet. And the schools don't close unless the roads are completely blocked off, we have white-out conditions, the building furnaces fail, or if the temperatures get so low the kids can't wait outside for the busses without risking certain frostbite. And on a good day, I can usually strap on my nordic skis and just whisk out the door.

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:37 am

still its november 6th, by this time there should be some snow out there.
Instead its raining in there right now.

Angelique · Post by **Angelique** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:53 am

We're getting the same weather here! Though the forecast calls for snow tonight!

Silent Crawler · Post by **Silent Crawler** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:31 pm

I live in Arizona. I've never even SEEN snow before... well, not in real life at least.

Yeah, I know. I'm weird.

I'll have to go on a road trip to a colder region.

Blue_Demon94 · Post by **Blue_Demon94** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:49 pm

I went to Arizona a while back and being the tourists we were, we decided to go to the Grand Canyon, but it was snowing so the Canyon was closed.. I say you won't have to go too far to find snow where you live.. unless my family suddenly caused a weater anomaly..

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:48 pm

Alkuperäinen postittaja Blue_Demon94
I went to Arizona a while back and being the tourists we were, we decided to go to the Grand Canyon, but it was snowing so the Canyon was closed.. I say you won't have to go too far to find snow where you live.. unless my family suddenly caused a weater anomaly..

Is it normal that it snows in grand canyon?
i mean, its now Novemberr 8th, it should have been snowed atleast last in the end of last month in here. I mean its just raining and theres +10c out there it should be -15c at this time of the year.

Silent Crawler · Post by **Silent Crawler** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:37 pm

Well, it does snow up north a bit, but that's still hours away from my house.

But my car is dead, so a roadtrip to anywhere snowy is kind of out of the question.

theatrepirate · Post by **theatrepirate** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:51 am

Ah....snow. We don't really have snow much here in Atlanta (occasional dustings, perhaps, and a blizzard for us is 5 or 6 inches.) But... we have ICE! Heck yeah! Nasty stuff! It's funny how many people from the northern end of the States move down here, laughing at us and thinking they can drive in it. But they can't, and we don't have near the snow equipment to tackle it. So...instead of snow days out of school...the last several years, we've had ice days.

Blue_Demon94 · Post by **Blue_Demon94** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:40 pm

It snows here every year, but it hasn't been that much (last year it snowed a lot, but it wasn't too high) the most snow I have ever seen in my life was during the Blizzard of 96.. if I find a pic I'll post it, but the mound of snow was higher than my pool, which was a pretty big pool to begin with.. I remember my dog had been outside at the time and couldn't get back to the house (he was in the front yard during the night, and I guess he woke up to the giant mound of snow and couldn't get around it) so he just dug a circle around him and was walking around it when we went outside to play in the snow.. Best snow day(s) ever!

CurlyyHairGirl · Post by **CurlyyHairGirl** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:21 pm

Originally posted by Casshern
Is it normal that it snows in grand canyon?
i mean, its now Novemberr 8th, it should have been snowed atleast last in the end of last month in here. I mean its just raining and theres +10c out there it should be -15c at this time of the year.

It's a yearly thing I'm pretty sure. Kingman, AZ gets snow every year, why not good old G-Canyon.

Where I live, we're too close to the ocean to get proper snow...which would be any..We had rain about two days ago, nonstop, and we had quite abit earlier on this year..alot actually. Not at all usual for this Part of CA, because technically it's a desert also.
The temps have been from 54 F and 80F, nowhere near cold enough for snow (32F...or at least sleet).
We sure have wind though!

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:11 pm

ive allways thought that grand canyon is in texas etc.
getting a bit worried. its now the middle of the september, and no snow, just raining and its still +10c warm. Usually it should be like -20c and snowing like hell. Its the global warming i tell you. The Greenhouse.. whatever i cant translate it.

Angelique · Post by **Angelique** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:54 pm

That's all right. You seem to know more about the US than many people here know about Finland, myself included. :blush

CurlyyHairGirl · Post by **CurlyyHairGirl** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:20 pm

Originally posted by Casshern
ive allways thought that grand canyon is in texas etc.
getting a bit worried. its now the middle of the september, and no snow, just raining and its still +10c warm. Usually it should be like -20c and snowing like hell. Its the global warming i tell you. The Greenhouse.. whatever i cant translate it.

Well, global warming is a difficult theory to use. See, the earth naturally cools and warms, it has a cycle, though it happens slowly over time. It is very possible that we could be in a warming stage of this natural cycle...or what I tend to believe more is global warming do to the greenhouse affect and our using lots of things that emit pollution that is unable to escape the atmosphere, trapping more and more infrared rays warming the atmoshphere...*goes crazy*and can melt the polar icecaps changing the current in the ocean due to the fresh cold water messing up the haloclines and thermoclines, causing mass havoc on the weather system while the excess water from the caps flood California and Hawaii is nomore! *pantpantpant*

sorry...a little moment should fix me up..just a tick.

Finland is not the only place with odd weather though, so don't feel too woried...yet.

Edit:

This is more like the "Where are you from/ weather" thread isn't it?

Baby_Nighty · Post by **Baby_Nighty** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:13 pm

i'm in the old USA .... haha

Saffire · Post by **Saffire** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:57 am

I'm from Canada, eh. I'm a chick and I love animals and I love x-men. I don't buy the comics but watch the moves, watched the shows, and have bought a few books that have x-men stories ior facts in them. If I ever post a series of jumbled letters and numbers it was probably my cat jumping on the keyboard while trying to get my attantion or on his way to watch the birds outside the window. Attached is a pic of him.

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InvisibleWoman · Post by **InvisibleWoman** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:57 am

I live about 5 minutes from Detroit, Michigan... its pretty bad here
Heather AKA InvisibleWoman

ferusangelus · Post by **ferusangelus** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:16 am

I am in San Diego, California. The sun here, it never freaking stops shining. We have three seasons; hot, warm and cool enough for coats. It rains now and then from Sept through Feb, but very very little most of the time. And then when there is a downpour, no one can drive and the freeways are insane, and people are on the news because they thought they could drive their SUV across three feet of water in the areas that flood due to poor planning.

We rarely get thunder; you hear one peal and it's like 'well there went the thunderstorm!'

I was born and raised here. I'm not a diurnal, sunny person, but it's my home. It is however incredibly expensive to live here, so I don't know why people keep coming here for the weather when the cheapest gas is $2.45/gallon, the public transportation is not so great compared to oh anywhere esle and a one bedroom apartment in a bad neighborhood is $950/mo and I'm not kidding.

But! We have Comic Con!

I love experiencing seasons in other places, I loved Boston at Halloween... but I don't know how long I'd actually last in a real winter.

Post by **fourpawsonthefloor** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:19 am

HAH - you can have mine if you want. We got something like 15 cm of snow today and it was -15 to -22 today (0 to -10 for you yanks).

Come and get it! I'll take your pretty sunshine

.

Paws

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:13 am

Alkuperäinen postittaja fourpawsonthefloor
HAH - you can have mine if you want. We got something like 15 cm of snow today and it was -15 to -22 today (0 to -10 for you yanks).

Come and get it! I'll take your pretty sunshine .

Paws

Interesting, its only raining water out there. No snow anywhere to be seen, and the temperature is +5 to +10. Though its soon december.

kamizzi · Post by **kamizzi** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:39 pm

I live in Poland. In Zielonka (~15 kilometers from Warsaw). And there's no snow!!! Why the heck? in the half of winter??