Real Xmas Weather. https://weather.com/weather/tenday/...19818292359fee27db46ee74c00b975eade3f66db8ee9
Yea that was a sight to see! Lucky for us to be alive and experience it because it likely won’t happen again in our kids, kids life time either.
Up here in Dallas, we're about to go from around the 80's the past couple of days to, apparently, a low of around 20 and a chance of ice/snow this weekend. So messed up.
Lies. I have been assured otherwise : https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-promises-power-will-stay-on-this-winter. Time to crank up the heat boys and girls!
Yea it’s going to be quite a change coming.. record high temps from TX to Alaska, hottest temp ever recorded in the US (excluding Hawaii) on Christmas in Rio Grande City, TX and hottest December ever for the country. Well 2021 is almost done and 2022 will start off Saturday with temps going from the 70s to 30s lol! Gotta love it
Today is the first day in around 2 months that I can remember any meaningful rainfall up here in D/FW...and it barely rained. I doubt it's even a .25 inch. These are supposed to be the wet months. Most f-ed up December I can remember.
Boulder County burning, due to grass fires swept up by110mph wind gusts. This is the Costco in Superior on 36. Friends says tons of houses burning on Davidson Mesa
Fire year. No longer fire season. We used to call the Front Range the "Asbestos Forest" because it was so moist it never burned. No more. Now, we have to plan on Front Range fires demanding resources. Same for the west side of the Cascades in Oregon and Washington and the high Sierras. The world you think we live in is no longer. That said, the Boulder fires weren't even in trees, but grass. Before the fire, the area had only received one inch of snow that quickly melted off days ago. The grasses were dead and dry, the houses were just another fuel type. They were built too close together and once one lit up, winds could bend the flames into a neighbor or the radiant heat was such that the neighboring house started. Fire just marched down the blocks. The homes were so far away from forests that they probably had only the bare minimum for wildland fire codes--fireproofing the eaves and the roofs cost money don't you know? The homes that survived in the area were generally further apart than those that burned, which were crammed into the tiniest of lots. It also didn't help that the power lines were coming down in the winds and starting numerous fires all around. We're going to have to do something with overhead power lines as the utility companies will not maintain them to the level the new and future conditions demand--it's too expensive. As in California, they'd rather pay for the fatalities and home losses because it's cheaper than upgrading the grid sufficiently. We're not prepared for now, much less 10-20 years from now. I used to be optimistic but seeing firefighters and other responders get beat up decade after decade while everyone does an ostrich impression and money leads to terrible decisions is making me less than optimistic. We--you--are screwed and even those of us who realize it can't comprehend it fully. Good luck and hope for the best--but hope is not a plan, so make some plans as best you can.
