What's up with this weather? (Welcome: buying, move, bike)

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by uptown_urbanist

Spring and fall weather is notoriously crazy. Up and down, hot one day, cold the next. In another couple of weeks you'll probably all be complaining that it's too hot and humid. I have a couple of outdoor events I'm hoping to attend next weekend and the weekend after, so I'm just hoping for no rain.

This is the problem with planning anything up there, always the question marks.

I'm invited to a family reunion in SE MN July 10. Last and only time I went:
86 degrees, rain the day before, sky high humidity, and I hadn't owned a can of bug spray since I left there.

I'll be watching the temp's this coming July 10 and see what I missed. If it's 75 degrees that day, I'll kick myself for not going. 90 degrees with 70-80% humidity and I'll celebrate all day long.

Out here, you can plan events like this without question marks.

[northstar22]

This is the problem with planning anything up there, always the question marks.

I'm invited to a family reunion in SE MN July 10. Last and only time I went:
86 degrees, rain the day before, sky high humidity, and I hadn't owned a can of bug spray since I left there.

I'll be watching the temp's this coming July 10 and see what I missed. If it's 75 degrees that day, I'll kick myself for not going. 90 degrees with 70-80% humidity and I'll celebrate all day long.

Out here, you can plan events like this without question marks.

120 degrees. All I need to say.

[tijlover]

Heat/Feel Index (Source: Metereology/People's Almanac)

90 with 80% humidity: Feels like 113
95 with 60% humidity: Feels like 114
95 with 70% humidity: Feels like 124

The real temp has never exceeded 117 here in Las Vegas. Up in Minneapolis, considering the heat index, you have exceeded 117 any number of times over the years. Sometimes, as high as 124, exceeding Phoenix's all-time high of 121.

Las Vegas:

110 with 10% humidity: Feels like 105.
110 with 5% humidity: Feels like 103.
90 with 10% humidity: Feel like 85.

Downside to the desert: In Jan. with a nightime low of 35, with a 20MPH winds, feels like 12 degrees. And when the wind kicks up to 30MPH, not uncommon here, it feels like 6 degrees. Yikes!

Upside: Always cools off nicely at night in the summers here.

[nick is rulz]

Nothing more comical than a bunch of Minnesotans complaining about the weather. Step up the empty threats to move, please.

[uptown_urbanist]

I complain about the heat and humidity and the bitter cold, but generally I like a little variety (even of the weather I don't like) in life; that was something I often missed when living in other parts of the country. Minnesota has had the most extremes of any of the places I've lived. Some of the weather I love, some I hate, but figure you take the bad with the good. It does make it tough to plan outdoor events, though!

[roneb]

I can't believe I'm reading so many whiny posts about the weather from Minnesotans! Golf Gal and nick is rulz seem to be the only ones not crying about it. I'd take the surprises Mn throws my way over the endless drab gray of Portland winter ANY day. And before you say I don't know what I'm talking about, I've lived there!

As an aside: El Nino frequently brings a mild winter in the Northwest followed by a stormy spring when the el nino breaks. We just had a record for number of rainy days in April. Maybe the pattern holds true across the northern states - might explain your mild spring followed by the recent snow in May!

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by nick is rulz

Nothing more comical than a bunch of Minnesotans complaining about the weather. Step up the empty threats to move, please.

go troll around somewhere else, or start contributing to the thread. Those are your two options.

[HugeTon]

Originally Posted by roneb

I can't believe I'm reading so many whiny posts about the weather from Minnesotans! Golf Gal and nick is rulz seem to be the only ones not crying about it. I'd take the surprises Mn throws my way over the endless drab gray of Portland winter ANY day. And before you say I don't know what I'm talking about, I've lived there!

As an aside: El Nino frequently brings a mild winter in the Northwest followed by a stormy spring when the el nino breaks. We just had a record for number of rainy days in April. Maybe the pattern holds true across the northern states - might explain your mild spring followed by the recent snow in May!

It sounded like you're whining, too, so join the rest of us. Look out the window and face the reality. Those are not saying anything are still in denial.

Go look up the forcast for this whole week in TC. Mostly in the 50's with lows in the 40s, rainy and cloudy every fricking day. How many weeks have this weather been like this? Too many! Before you know it May is over and June, July and August are left for a short summer. Then comes September with overcast weather again. And please no snow in October like last year.

I still cross my fingers and toes for Uptown-Urbanist for the weekends with decent weather.

[marmac]

Another thing about Minnesotans is their assumption that " we'll pay for it later" whenever we get nice weather.

Maybe we're gonna have to " pay for" that nice April with a lousy May.

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by HugeTon

It sounded like you're whining, too, so join the rest of us. Look out the window and face the reality. Those are not saying anything are still in denial.

Go look up the forcast for this whole week in TC. Mostly in the 50's with lows in the 40s, rainy and cloudy every fricking day. How many weeks have this weather been like this? Too many! Before you know it May is over and June, July and August are left for a short summer. Then comes September with overcast weather again. And please no snow in October like last year.

I still cross my fingers and toes for Uptown-Urbanist for the weekends with decent weather.

It always amazes me how soft Minnesotans are when it comes to whether. It's either too hot, too cold, too humid, too dry, too windy.....

We are supposed to be tougher up here, not whiney wimps.