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Okay fair enough that does make sense but the difference isn't that dramatic to point out is it?
I was thinking of the mountains in western scotland but i'm geussing she/he lives on the coastal plain.
I'm in the southwest highlands on a sea loch, mountains all around. About 20 miles west of Glasgow as the crow flies.
Not a real blizzard where I live, no. But they call them blizzards. There was a big blizzard in Glasgow 2 years ago. People trapped on motorways for a couple of days.
I know about real blizzards. Even Tennessee had some.
Well it dropped the amount of snow that a blizzard would drop, but it wasn't a blizzard because it wasn't windy.
I wish the gulf stream wasn't so strong But if it wasn't as strong our summers would be like Iceland we just can't win
Well, the summers here are like Iceland.
Even if the Gulf-Stream did slow down we still would have a temperate climate and the winters would probably average 1c/2c max. So we could still, even then have mild days.
Okay fair enough that does make sense but the difference isn't that dramatic to point out is it?
I was thinking of the mountains in western scotland but i'm geussing she/he lives on the coastal plain.
Um, well it is when you compare large cold spells. Like the snow she got didn't last long, it lasted 5 weeks here.
I think she lives like right on the West coast, so when a front comes in it just blows straight in and rises the temperature, e.g from 1c to 7c in a matter of an hour, whereas here the temperature may only rise to 3c as we have mountains to our west.
I'm in the southwest highlands on a sea loch, mountains all around. About 20 miles west of Glasgow as the crow flies.
But you aren't on a mountain, there is a 700m mountain near me and average temperatures are like 1/2c up there in December, its below 0c half the time- I bet they get alot of Ice Days up there.
Frankly, it described what has been going on. The "cold wave" was not a cold wave at all, it just brought the temperatures back to normal, which seemed cold after so much warmth. The high yesterday of 57°F. at 1:35 PM in Fort Collins was much above normal. The climate change in my region might be irrelevant to you, but it is not to me, and I will continue to report what is going on, with or without your blessing.
But they weren't normal. Here's what your originally said:
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Originally Posted by Cosmicstargoat
After a couple of days and nights of NORMAL temperatures, that felt like a COLD WAVE!
That was flat out false and that's what I take most issue with. Here's the data:
12/9
Max: 26 F (17 F below average)
Min: 8 F (10 F below average)
Mean: 17 F (13.5 below average)
^That doesn't look normal to me.
12/10
Max: 42 F (1 F below average)
Min: 8 F (10 F below average
Mean: 25 F (5.5 F below average)
The 11th was 1 F below average, so certainly nothing noteworthy.
The high on the 12th was indeed well above normal and the mean for the day was above normal, but the low was normal. The upcoming forecast looks relatively close to normal.
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But if it wasn't as strong our summers would be like Iceland we just can't win 