September 4
Bye bye summertime.
The day after the last post, a cold front rolled past, and the warmth never came back. Mostly a cool northwesterly flow since, with only a few days reaching for 20C, the rest spent below 15.
Jack frost has been dancing around the past few mornings, but we have been covering up and nothing has been fried yet, which is a surprise, we are usually frozen a week before anybody else.
Still very green around here, the lawn is lush and lots of flowers are still in bloom.
A brief shot of space weather early this morning helped to make up for the complete lack of any interesting earth weather around these parts. Shortly after midnight, the numbers lined up and we were treated to a few nice eruptions of northern lights, thanks to a coronal hole solar wind stream flowing past. Not a very strong stream, just under 600km/s, but it did have a few little disturbances in it that set off two colorful substorms about an hour apart.
Here is a temperature/wind comparison for June-September of 2006,2007 and 2008. We missed out on a good deal of summer in July this year!
Anyone hear whats going on with the Strathmore radar site? The darn thing hasn’t worked for the last week!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pmHaven’t seen any mention of whats up other than it’s supposed to be back today.
http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/Latest/anglais/produits/radar/reg/pac/Latest-composite-pac-echo.png
The poor old radars must be falling to pieces, never seen it as bad as it’s been this summer.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pmHey Pat,
Love your blog … I’m a Montana native living in Colorado. Just linked you on mine.
Dann.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:12 pmThanks Dann
September 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pmWhere ya from in Montana? It’s time for a run to Glacier and Kalispell I think.
Just the other day we were just looking back at some vid from an early 90’s trip to Colorado. Pikes peak, Royal Gorge and a crazy canyon laser show. Ooh and the Bud plant. Might have to make a run back down there some time
Hi Pat, sorry … missed this reply. I’m originally from Butte, in SW Montana. I lived there from birth until 2004 (23 years). Glacier is my favorite place on earth (so far)!
If you come back to Colorado, I highly recommend the local micro breweries over the big ones (New Belgium and O’Dell are my favorite!)
Dann.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm