North American Weather (U.S.A & Canada)

[matty40s]

You can watch it minute by minute, this is cleared once a day....

Lovely sunny but breezy day today on the slopes.

https://www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-cams

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

What a great looking storm 

 

 

[cheeky_monkey]

17 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

What's not to like? 17C and 20% humidity. 

looks to me like an early spring here in Alberta..i have never seen such a warm start to March in my time here..March is usually cold and snowy..looks staying dry mild for the next 10 days too 

Edited March 15, 2021 by cheeky_monkey

[matty40s]

8 hours ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

What a great looking storm 

 

 

Well it has given another 6" on top of the 20" plus in the last few days...

[matty40s]

The Colorado snowstorm enjoyed by 2 skeletons playing Uno...

 

[carinthian]

My son sent this nice picture this morning from his apartment in Vancouver, View is over the marina, Stanley Park  and towards the snow capped mountains beyond North Vancouver.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

 

[cheeky_monkey]

On 08/04/2021 at 15:20, CatchMyDrift said:

I'm looking forward to seeing what the thunderstorms here are like, they should be fairly decent from what I have heard and can work out.

way bigger and way more frequent than the UK..t-storm season runs from end of May to early mid August..peak is Mid June to Mid end July..may get a few tornadoes thrown in for good measure 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

4 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Another decent flip-flop coming over the weekend after a steadily warming week with loads of sunshine:

I'm not convinced these will be in chronological order:

 

Is that some iridescent cloud 5th one just next to the left hand lamppost

[matty40s]

 

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[cheeky_monkey]

20 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

Driving way too fast for the road conditions! Yet another example of truckers knowing best and driving like lunatics, the driver with the dash cam footage is just as bad. I hope they all got charged with dangerous driving.

Having spent winter in Canada it's very safe to say that North Americans do not cope better in snowy conditions, if there is snow falling or blowing it is always absolute chaos. There was a 50-70 vehicle pileup east of us just a few weeks ago:

Up to 70 vehicles pile up on Trans-Canada Highway as winter weather rips through Alberta | CBC News

WWW.CBC.CA

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The westbound lane of a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway between Medicine Hat and Calgary has been shut down by a pileup of as many as 70 vehicles...

We have had a dusting today and the road to my step-daughter's school was carnage. Multiple cars in the ditches and just epically bad driving all round, my pic is unclear:

 

Cute snowflakes though:

i have been saying this for over 10 years about snow and driving chaos here..but it falls on deaf ears to those back home..who always use Canada as an example of showing the UK how to cope with snow and driving in the winter..clearing roads etc

[Hairy Celt]

I thought at first that the video was speeded up! Death wish driving.

[Hairy Celt]

On 08/05/2021 at 20:09, CatchMyDrift said:

Are you Scotland in disguise? It's a manky mess of wind and rain and sleet.

It is so bad that I wore my jacket for the 3rd time since arriving in Canada:

Oh dear yes, that does look rather familiar..  little patches of melting hail and puddles. Oh for a few warm sunny days.

[Had Worse]

Cameras

WWW.KALB.COM

 

My favourite camera is back up.

Nice CG's near Alexandria Louisiana

[matty40s]

 

[matty40s]

The rain in south USA continues to cause problems..

 

[matty40s]

Rinse and repeat...

[Eagle Eye]

Last 48 hours in North America (mainly the USA) look at how much there was near Texas.

[Had Worse]

Lightning strikes of the highest quality

2.28am CG to ground just left of centre.

2.31am far right tall building

2.32 am tower to left

2.34am double strike central buildings.

 

2.17am direct strike on tower to right under abc banner

 

Note, this refers to 03/06/2021 only

Edited June 3, 2021 by Had Worse

[cheeky_monkey]

5 hours ago, CatchMyDrift said:

ECM 850s way out in FI, I live just above the 32

I can only assume everyone in the western US is dead at this point?

its a dry heat so it can be 34c but feel like 30c ..not like the UK where 34c feels like 40c..its usually pretty breezy in Alberta when it gets hot..i lived in Calgary 2012-14 the summer of 2012 was i think the 2nd hottest on record for the city ...to me it didnt feel as hot as a hot summer back home

[mb018538]

600dm ridge is setting up over the SW corner of the USA, which is going to produce some record breaking heat.

Look at this forecast for Needles. Potentially the earliest 50c plus outside Death Valley for 103 years. Ridiculously hot.

[Guest]

Furnace Creek in Death Valley reached 53.3C/127f yesterday which is the earliest its ever reached that temp. 
 

Also is currently  45C/113f at midnight! 
 

MesoWest Observation

WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV

 

[Guest]

The overnight low in Death Valley was 40C