Weekend Open Thread - Friday, February 7, 2025

real_aurgathor · 2025-02-07T10:59:01+00:00

It's already Friday for almost 3 hours and no weekend thread.... 😉 We've had a highly unusual, dry weather during most of January , but we're now having an honest winter weather (not a PNW type) with snow on the ground and below 0C temps, and with down to -5C in the forecast. Brrrrr.....

DrStrange

iahawkeye83 Sorry about your mother. Will be glad when we put cancer in the rear-view mirror.

HooRU

DrStrange I hate cancer too. I have it 2 sisters and grandmother and nephew

DrStrange

Rook It has a crust here, but it's snow underneath. Going to clear a path down the driveway and get the walk today, then finish the driveway tomorrow. I don't need anything and I'm not going anywhere until at least the end of the week, so the whole driveway doesn't need to be clear. I want to check out the snowblower before I run it. It's an electric, but it's been in the shed for a couple of years. Haven't really needed it.

HooRU

I predicted the second half of winter would be snowy. More storms coming Tuesday and on.

We need the precipitation, but it comes as a big problem for me individually.

La Nina is back.

Heat84

Astyanax Our HOA requires residents to remove window screens during hurricane season but I never bother to put them back up so my windows are always closed. I'm always running either the heat or A/C. The thermostat is set to A/C about 80+% of the year including now.

Why can't air conditioning systems, instead of having an A/C setting and a Heat setting, just be designed so whatever temperature you set it to it makes the air that temperature? The way they work now is not logical. Maybe it wasn't possible to design air conditioners the way I want them to be designed in the 20th century, but it's definitely possible now. So what is the HVAC industry waiting for? Also, an air conditioner conditions the air to be hot or cold, which means calling the Cool setting A/C is just going along with a cultural norm and not logical either. Actually, the thermostat that my house has calls the cool setting Cool.

Another problem is that digital thermostats can only be set to the nearest degree. What are you supposed to do when you have the thermostat set to 79 and the air conditioner never shuts off but you set it to 80 and it doesn't turn on. They need to allow you to set it to the nearest tenth of a degree. I would like an even smaller incriment than that, but that's probably asking for too much. The old analog thermostats can be set to less then 1 degree incriments can't they? I'm not sure if smaller incriments were printed on the dial or the card behind the needle, but I'm pretty sure you can feather those analog thermostats to set the air conditioner to 79.5.

There's gonna be a leap forward in air conditioner technology and a leap backward or forward in thermostat technology sooner or later isn't there?

px_eliezer_

Heat84

Smart thermostats have automatic mode.
https://obrienservice.com/auto-thermostat-setting/

You would want the differences between the two settings to be a LITTLE BIT different anyway, not exactly the same number, because otherwise the system would always be switching modes and kicking on and off like a high-libido hamster.

Likewise a thermostat set to tenths of a degree would be way too sensitive. Random air movements or a cloud briefly covering the sun outside the window, would always be triggering it.

One degree Celsius is larger than one degree Fahrenheit, so that Celsius thermostats are usually in 0.5 degree increments (which is roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit).

px_eliezer_

GeekGirl1 No issues for driving to Super Bowl party.

And a happy one it should be!

Rich221976

Astyanax

I been lazy. I am still boarded up for the windows. I should take them down, but every time I want to do it, something comes up.

Zenit_IIfx

This weekend, I set up a Bird Buddy. Cool thing, no bird visitors yet. It has a pretty weak wireless radio so I installed an outdoor Ubiquiti UK Ultra to feed it wireless directly with line of sight - stable network connection now!

More snow in the forecast for next week. First real winter we have had in what feels like years.

real_aurgathor

Zenit_IIfx More snow in the forecast for next week. First real winter we have had in what feels like years.

Well, among other things, the definition of real winter depends a lot where you live, I grew up where we normally had more or less continuous snow cover from mid/late December until late February or early/mid March. (that was before GW truly kicked in -- the whether there changed quite a bit in the last 20 - 30 years)

Here in the Seattle are sometimes we get some snow, but it can very a lot from practically nothing to Snowmageddon as per:

Snowiest months in Seattle (1894 - 2019)

January 1950: 57.2 inches
January 1969: 45.4 inches
February 1916: 35.4 inches
January 1916: 23.3 inches
December 1968: 22.1 inches
November 1896: 20.5 inches
February 2019: 20.2 inches
January 1954: 20.0 inches
January 1943: 18.4 inches
March 1951: 18.2 inches

Snowiest Februarys in Seattle (1894 - February 11, 2019)

February 1916: 35.4 inches
February 2019: 20.2 inches
February 1923: 17.4 inches
February 1949: 13.1 inches
February 1910: 10.7 inches
February 1894: 10.0 inches
February 1990: 9.8 inches
February 1956: 9.4 inches
February 1937: 8.2 inches
February 2017 and February 1957: 7.2 inches

On the other hand, in some areas of US (i.e. Buffalo, NY) are pretty much guaranteed to get at least several ft of snow every year.

In any case, we've had quite a bit of not forecasted snow in the last few days, but hopefully we'll soon return to our PNW style rainy winter as per:

We'll have some cold and dry days due to some outflow through the Fraser valley from Canada, but as long as we don't drop to single digits, there should not be much of an issue. Wish there was a border wall that could stop cold air. 😉

Seattle - The wintry precipitation is wrapping up, but the cold air is settling in across western Washington. We will see some of the coldest temperatures so far this season early this week as temperatures fall to around 20 degrees in western Washington. Make sure you are prepared for the freezing nights and mornings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/coldest-air-of-the-season-arrives-this-week-in-seattle-area/ar-AA1yIIHX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=534573977d3b48b4fcb435f7c092e0bd&ei=54

GeekGirl1

GeekGirl1 Go Eagles!!!

Yes!!!! 🎉

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