As a farm boy we watched weather.
I took my private pilot's license and that was more weather.
When I was in the north, I quite often gave the pilots our weather so that they knew whether to fly in or not. CAVU meant clear and unlimited visibility.
So a few days ago a fast moving cold front went through. There were high winds and a little snow. So the trees waved and snow blew. Visibility was limited. The whole episode was over in about 30 minutes and our temperature dropped. I watched all 30 minutes of it.
I hear a storm will be here on Sunday and Monday...from you all up north! :)
ReplyDeleteNot this time. we've had a week of good weather until today when we've got snow.
DeleteIt looks very cold yet. It has been very cold here too but today the sun came out and it was definitely much warmer.
ReplyDeleteYou know we will be cold for another month and then it's up and down.
DeleteIn England we are pretty obsessed with the weather as we never quite know what the next day will hold for us.
ReplyDeleteWe get some of that here. But mostly we get a long spell of anything...sun, cloud, wind take your pick
DeleteWe have the strangest winter ever, we went from + 10 C to - 7 C.
ReplyDeleteCold from Siberia has overruled Europe and causes lots of trouble.
Fortunately we have no snow but the temperatures and winds are icy. We are not used to that anymore, for a long time we had rather warm winters, global warming? But it has changed in one night.
Global warming will give us extremes. Cold weather is not nice when we get it only once in a while.
DeleteI have been a weather watcher for ages, too. I didn't know you got your pilot's license, Red. I keep learning new things about you! :-)
ReplyDeleteI got my license and then went north for two years. When I came back i didn't have time for flying . so my piloting was brief.
DeleteYikes,it still is winter! You got pounded it looks
ReplyDeleteWe can expect winter for another month.
DeleteI saw that on the radar and TV weather. It's been a terribly unpredictable winter. I like the slow change, and don't mind the double-digit below zero temperatures. I don't even mind the snow. This 10 C. one day and below zero the next in February was nuts!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. Extreme changes are not fun.
DeleteFerocious! Winter's not done yet.
ReplyDeleteyes, you never want to out guess yourself when it comes to winter.
DeleteWe are enjoying 11C weather today! Sorry to be so happy, but I'm sure there is still more of what you got coming for us before March is over!
ReplyDeleteHave you written about flying on your blog? I'd happily read about that!
I've written about flying but not my own flying.
DeleteGenerally speaking I'm not much of a weather watcher but I do love to watch a thunderstorm roll across the landscape and I rather fancy the idea of storm chasing, just once or twice.
ReplyDeleteI might have liked to watch your cold front but I'm guessing it wasn't so nice to live through?
I love thunderstorms.
DeleteYou captured it very well. It looks very wintry in those images!
ReplyDeleteFor thirty minutes is was pretty wild.
DeleteHow are you at predictions? Since I moved to South Carolina I never know what the weather is going to do and the weatherman is no help either. He is wrong way more than he is right.
ReplyDeleteMy predictions? We won't go there. I do find that when you look at radar and forecasts it makes more sense and predictions make more sense.
DeletePS. Thanks for offering the loan of your purple shirt to go with my shoes. Very kind and thoughtful, but I think I better ease into this slowly and not add too much purple all at once. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, my T shirt is the only purple I have.
DeleteI am a weather watcher too. I am always checking Weather Underground to see what the weekly, daily, and hourly forecast is and where the clouds are on the radar. How else will I plan my day and when i can get my walk in or if I can work outside or if I need rain gear for the soccer match?
ReplyDeleteI really like the radar.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like London! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of "radiosonde" before. Had to look it up. You taught me something!
The weather is crazy here too. Not much snow but gusty winds and freezing temps. I wonder when it will change again for the better.
ReplyDeleteHi Red, Wow, there is a lot of snow out there in your back yard. I see in the comments that you like thunderstorms. That makes two of us. I sure don't get enough of them in Seattle. I grew up in Texas and that is thunderstorm territory! Bottom line, I do love watching the weather.
ReplyDeleteYou are certainly being hit with the snow out your way. I hear you are in for another one. Your March does not look like it will be a shovel free time. Sorry Red. B
ReplyDeleteI thought it was going to hit my son, but it seems to have missed Maryland.
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