Microclimates Thread: Describe the microclimate around your city (Chicago, night, freezing)
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Not sure if the Okanagan area really has a microclimate.
The Kelowna airport would be a micro climate since it's quite a bit colder at night than the rest of the valley. It even got down to -30 in December of 2008. Penticton has never even been remotely that cold.
The Kelowna airport would be a micro climate since it's quite a bit colder at night than the rest of the valley. It even got down to -30 in December of 2008. Penticton has never even been remotely that cold.
I feel like it would be more accurate if weather observations for Kelowna weren't taken at YLW, as it's quite a bit cooler than the rest of the city.
I feel like it would be more accurate if weather observations for Kelowna weren't taken at YLW, as it's quite a bit cooler than the rest of the city.
At the same time, it is much less windy than the rest of the city, so it doesn't feel as cold during the winter. This is why Penticton gets higher windchills than Kelowna.
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Aumsville Oregon is such a place with a mini micro climate. We moved here a bit ago and lately we have discovered whenever we have showery unsettled weather the higher hills get the bulk of the rains.
Aumsville Oregon has hills around it outside of the town that go between 500 and 600 feet so once you leave town you get pretty good rises. The last two weeks we have had to go out of town for various things for our home we had built and the weather was unsettled.
Here in town we had some quick hitting showers mostly at night we could hear it on the roof but going into town over the Waldo Hills it would be partly cloudy here and dumping rain going over the low pass.
For some reason Stayton Oregon ALWAYS gets the heaviest downpours. We can often see the dark clouds form around here all hung up over there by the Cascade Mountains and twice I drove in extremely heavy rains that were non existent here in Aumsville. It is literally like an invisible wall was put up going from windshield wipers to full to turning them off completely. Looking into the rearview mirror you could see the very dark looking clouds almost as dark as this text.
The only times we get good rainfall is from large organized systems which we have been lacking lately. Even the wind event wasn't as strong as predicted. Salem only spitted out a 49mph reading which the prediction the very same morning the NWS was going for gusts up to 60mph and a few isolated spots of 70 in the Central Willamette Valley.
In fact Rob a local weather blogger has a really good category for high wind events and the one we had was just placed in the high end of a *Wind Event* just below a High Wind Category despite the NWS issuing warnings it never came to be.
Damage in some locales however matched it because of trees still on the leaves accelerated the process where if this were in the winter time hardly any problems other then local power cuts in rural areas.
Marion County in just one hour at noon went from 1200 people gone to over 10,000 customers experiencing power cuts in the rural areas and a few traffic lights off in Salem requiring traffic control.
Both cable ferries were out of order across the river.
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Aumsville Oregon is such a place with a mini micro climate. We moved here a bit ago and lately we have discovered whenever we have showery unsettled weather the higher hills get the bulk of the rains.
Aumsville Oregon has hills around it outside of the town that go between 500 and 600 feet so once you leave town you get pretty good rises. The last two weeks we have had to go out of town for various things for our home we had built and the weather was unsettled.
Here in town we had some quick hitting showers mostly at night we could hear it on the roof but going into town over the Waldo Hills it would be partly cloudy here and dumping rain going over the low pass.
For some reason Stayton Oregon ALWAYS gets the heaviest downpours. We can often see the dark clouds form around here all hung up over there by the Cascade Mountains and twice I drove in extremely heavy rains that were non existent here in Aumsville. It is literally like an invisible wall was put up going from windshield wipers to full to turning them off completely. Looking into the rearview mirror you could see the very dark looking clouds almost as dark as this text.
The only times we get good rainfall is from large organized systems which we have been lacking lately. Even the wind event wasn't as strong as predicted. Salem only spitted out a 49mph reading which the prediction the very same morning the NWS was going for gusts up to 60mph and a few isolated spots of 70 in the Central Willamette Valley.
In fact Rob a local weather blogger has a really good category for high wind events and the one we had was just placed in the high end of a *Wind Event* just below a High Wind Category despite the NWS issuing warnings it never came to be.
Damage in some locales however matched it because of trees still on the leaves accelerated the process where if this were in the winter time hardly any problems other then local power cuts in rural areas.
Marion County in just one hour at noon went from 1200 people gone to over 10,000 customers experiencing power cuts in the rural areas and a few traffic lights off in Salem requiring traffic control.
Both cable ferries were out of order across the river.
Great description. Sounds similar to here. My area misses out on most of the rain that the hills get. Often, while it's totally clear skies here, the river can rise 1-2 metres within a few hours, with trees floating down This is the result of heavy rain only 10km or so away.
My area doesn't get heavy rain, unless it's off the sea.
Hilly terrain with lots of valleys, mean lots of microclimates. A friend who lives 13km away as the crow flies had -3C a few nights ago, while my minimum for the same night, was 11C. That would be an unlikely event in some places, but I didn't find it too unusual. The weather here often comes down to what valley you live in, or at the bottom of.
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