As one who still travels to the grandparents (now great-grandparents), I don't mind the dry roads one bit.
This was a masterclass in meteorology and I think some of the local jucos in your area (I played college ball and courted a few) would love to have you teach.
The Art & Science of Photography & Weather is a class I'd recommend to all photographers
I hear you on the driving. We are going to Chicago at the end of January (Kelly's son is graduating Navy boot camp) and I was somehow convinced to get a rental car to pick up at the airport. We only have to drive about 35 miles, but I'm really hoping a big ridge is sitting right over them at that time, so I don't have to try to do it in snow and ice.
As for the meteorology class, less than a week after writing this post that big ridge has now shifted a little bit to the east. So while will still be 80 degrees in Texas on Christmas, we may see a bit of rain here in southeast Arizona. Still a zero percent chance of snow, so I'm only a little bit wrong. Definitely no white Christmas. But cloudy and 68 is now more likely than 75 and sunny.
I did enjoy my 8 months in Oklahoma. Our plan is to travel after I retire, and if nothing else, at least one night at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife refuge is definitely on the agenda. But I'm sure the eastern part of Oklahoma also has some good things to see.
The phrasing "the forecast 500mb standard height anomalies for the same timeframe" and that map with all those lines on it were like a couple of geese walking on my grave.
I took a Geography course in college, thinking I would be memorizing the continents and maybe learning the names of some of the countries that were always trashing us at the U.N.
Instead, a damn lot of it was about weather. It was not the "easy A" I had hoped to work in around Communications Law and Researching Public Records. Let's just say they threw a lot of mud, and not so much of it stuck to my wall.
I found your version of it to be considerably more comprehensible -- by my wall still won't need to be washed any time soon. The rain will take care of it.
lol, sorry about your geography class ... I felt kind of the same about college statistics (which I took in my late 40s). Definitely not an easy A.
I tried to use as little sciency weather jargon as possible, but in hindsight, I probably could have chosen a better graphic to illustrate the high pressure ridge. Thanks for reading anyway. 😎
As one who still travels to the grandparents (now great-grandparents), I don't mind the dry roads one bit.
This was a masterclass in meteorology and I think some of the local jucos in your area (I played college ball and courted a few) would love to have you teach.
The Art & Science of Photography & Weather is a class I'd recommend to all photographers
I hear you on the driving. We are going to Chicago at the end of January (Kelly's son is graduating Navy boot camp) and I was somehow convinced to get a rental car to pick up at the airport. We only have to drive about 35 miles, but I'm really hoping a big ridge is sitting right over them at that time, so I don't have to try to do it in snow and ice.
As for the meteorology class, less than a week after writing this post that big ridge has now shifted a little bit to the east. So while will still be 80 degrees in Texas on Christmas, we may see a bit of rain here in southeast Arizona. Still a zero percent chance of snow, so I'm only a little bit wrong. Definitely no white Christmas. But cloudy and 68 is now more likely than 75 and sunny.
Safe travels, Friend!
If you ever thrive for more adventurous weather, here in Oklahoma, it’s always colorful.
I did enjoy my 8 months in Oklahoma. Our plan is to travel after I retire, and if nothing else, at least one night at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife refuge is definitely on the agenda. But I'm sure the eastern part of Oklahoma also has some good things to see.
The phrasing "the forecast 500mb standard height anomalies for the same timeframe" and that map with all those lines on it were like a couple of geese walking on my grave.
I took a Geography course in college, thinking I would be memorizing the continents and maybe learning the names of some of the countries that were always trashing us at the U.N.
Instead, a damn lot of it was about weather. It was not the "easy A" I had hoped to work in around Communications Law and Researching Public Records. Let's just say they threw a lot of mud, and not so much of it stuck to my wall.
I found your version of it to be considerably more comprehensible -- by my wall still won't need to be washed any time soon. The rain will take care of it.
lol, sorry about your geography class ... I felt kind of the same about college statistics (which I took in my late 40s). Definitely not an easy A.
I tried to use as little sciency weather jargon as possible, but in hindsight, I probably could have chosen a better graphic to illustrate the high pressure ridge. Thanks for reading anyway. 😎