National Weather Service: “Destructive 80 mph winds.”
Jackie, wanting to be clear: “Not the constructive kind.”
2023-06-29 13:33
Tag: weather
2023-03-19 10:56
After several days when the weather was too crappy for either me or Ashley to want to take a long walk, it was slightly better today, and I managed to get the pupster out for a pretty long walk.
2023-02-02 12:18
Sunny Groundhog’s Day morning. However: Near South Arboretum Woods, Ashley suddenly became so animated I brought the car to a stop. I looked where she was looking, and spotted a juvenile groundhog, bravely standing over his shadow.
I submit we can look forward to an early spring.
2021-12-11 08:36
“The safety and well-being of our employees and partners is our top priority right now,” Richard Rocha, an Amazon spokesman…
I’m curious to know: Was their safety and well-being was the top priority a few hours earlier, when the National Weather Service issued a tornado watch?
Here are a few related questions:
- Does Amazon have a plan for moving everyone in the building to shelter if a tornado warning is issued?
- Have they tested that plan?
- How long does it take to move people from the most distant parts of the building to shelter?
- Does someone have the job of monitoring for a tornado warning?
Source: Deaths Confirmed After Tornado Hits Amazon Warehouse in Illinois – The New York Times
2021-11-28 09:51
If there’s anything better after too much walking back and forth in the cold than a mug of hot cocoa, it’s probably dangerous or illegal.
2021-10-31 06:04
When climate-change deniers want to spend more and more on border security, it’s a clear sign that they know perfectly well that climate change is happening.
“The debt pearl-clutchers are right: We are saddling our children and grandchildren with a bill they won’t be able to pay. But that bill doesn’t come from minting the money we need to save our species and civilization from the emergency on its doorstep – it comes from the false economy of skimping on climate and buying guard labor instead.”
Source: Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
2021-04-12 08:37
That old familiar spring weather pattern—sun all week, rain over the weekend—doesn’t pinch the same now that I don’t have to work a regular job. #gratitude
2021-02-25 15:52
Bummer. I’ve been hoping to find a old wool coat cheap at Goodwill or a vintage clothing shop, but they’re getting all trendy. What to wear to Davos…
Why couldn’t he find a coat that had the warmth and performance features of his ski jacket with the tailoring and design of his wool coat?
Source: The Norwegian Wool Coat
2021-01-06 06:47
Imminent sudden stratospheric warming to occur, bringing increased risk of snow over coming weeks
today’s SSW is potentially the most dangerous kind, where the polar vortex splits into two smaller ‘child’ vortices.”
I’ll omit the otherwise irresistibly tempting joke about “child vortices.”
A long wait for my brolly
Way back on June 9th I ordered a fancy new umbrella. The vendor created a shipping label that very day, and sent me a tracking number. For reasons (perhaps among them, as they claim on their website, precautions in the warehouse against COVID-19), it was six days before they actually handed the package over to the shipper.
As soon as I’d ordered it, I looked ahead at the weather forecast, wondering if there’d be some rain to use it in, but it looked like a full week of dry weather. Of course, after it took a week to actually ship the package, things had changed. Happily, the package was on-track to arrive Saturday—I’d have my new brolly in hand just hours ahead of forecast thunderstorms!
But then the package followed a mysterious path on it’s way from Wisconsin to Illinois:
- Jun 9 2020 Shipment information received
- Jun 15 2020 Shipment tendered to UPS MI BELLEVILLE, WI
- Jun 15 2020 Package received for processing Avenel, NJ
- Jun 16 2020 Package processed by UPS MI Avenel, NJ
- Jun 17 2020 Package transferred to dest MI facility Avenel, NJ
- Jun 19 2020 Package received by dest MI facility Kansas City, MO
- Jun 20 2020 Package enroute to USPS for induction Kansas City, MO
- 20 Jun 2020 22:29 Shipment Acceptance at PO Hazelwood, MO
In what way is this a sensible?
I mean, I’m willing to cut the vendor some slack for taking six days between sending shipment information and then actually tendering the package. I’m sure precautions against COVID-19 reduce their efficiency in shipping things out of their warehouse. But sending the package from Wisconsin to Illinois via New Jersey and then Missouri? They spent 5 days getting the package to a different adjacent state, to a city only 72 miles closer than where it started!
Now that the package is in the hands of the post office, I figure it will actually get here in a couple of days, just about the time the wet weather ends and it gets sunny and dry for a few days.