hardypalmguy

You are ridiculous, just move to Florida already

Wait, mofo painted his grass green? What a ridiculous nonsensical thing to do
 

7 minutes ago, Lightning said:

I guess we can just change this section to the Lake/Ohio Valley Climate discussion since a couple posters are now flooding each thread with climate change talk. 

You gotta look at the big picture for the smaller one to become clear.

3 minutes ago, luckyweather said:

Not much of a start to Siberian snow cover season if one looks to such things to inform on winter expectations here. 

arctic is warming faster than here by far.  still getting above freezing in barrow alaska.

Just now, roardog said:

The month could be +15 and there could still be a blizzard. All it takes is a cold day or two in a “warm” month like December to get snow. 

and then it's gone the next day.  fine by me.  melt it.

32 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

His question was not serious, he knows better. The monthly temperature departures can be way above average and the southern Great Lakes will still see snow. 

The average high for MKE doesn't dip much below 32 even in the heart of winter.  You have this false misconception that this is a true winter climate.  We are borderline at best.  Snowmobile trails locally haven't opened in the last three years.

1 hour ago, Brian D said:

Even seasonable temps can produce snow down that way I'm sure, along with wrap around as the front moves through, and temps drop. So I guess we shall see.

Seasonable temps are above freezing until end of December.  So any slight above plus warm lake influence will be rainers here.

Its not getting above 60 at all this week, eventually these houses will be in the low 60s or lower at night. Its just dumb. Last week I used the ac driving to work and the heat home.

37 minutes ago, roardog said:

There are some posters in this sub forum that seem to be delusional about their climo and you win top prize for that. Actually I’m sure your act is more about trying to get people riled up than not understanding climo. The hard work it would take to grow palm trees in Wisconsin does make me wonder though. lol

Growing palm trees in Wisconsin is actually pretty easy.  I've done it for over a decade.  And I had bare ground and green grass for almost the entire winter last year.

29 minutes ago, Brian D said:

My take from my modelling method is suggesting a seasonable to warmer 1st half of Dec with the 2nd half being seasonable to colder. Most of Jan will be seasonable to warmer with the last week turning colder. Most of Feb looks seasonable to colder with the last week being warmer. Even March looks like a decent flux from week to week. This should keep things interesting.  

Warm enough to keep it liquid thru December and most of Jan?

reeling in this late week rainer.  Hoping for 2"+.  

Totally anecdotal but they shut off the fountains at the southside park and in the hospital retention ponds last week. Fall is here and they are expecting the freezing weather.

1 minute ago, roardog said:

Your house must get full sun exposure along with you cooking in it to have it that warm because regardless of how well it’s insulated, a house will not stay that warm for that long from last week’s warm weather. If you subtracted the cooking and sun, your house wouldn’t be 70-74 degrees so you really can’t compare your situation to Michsnowfreak. 

My heat barely runs in January -- think minutes out of each hour.

12 minutes ago, roardog said:

There’s no way a house will stay above 68 when the air temp outside is as cool as it’s been with wind for this many days unless you’re doing something inside the house that warms it up. 

Right now it's 70 in my house with the heat off.  Outside of cooking, running lights, electronics, etc, there's nothing else going on.  It was up to 74 yesterday afternoon inside as well when the sun was out.  So yeah, if your house is falling into the 50s this year already, there's an issue with your insulation.  I have 4 feet in my attic.

You are an idiot and nothing is wrong with the sensor

30 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Id be interested to hear from any other SE WI poster if MKE has had an increasing heat island problem in recent years. Only because they always seem to get these palm-induced records that surrounding areas dont.

5 latest days of first high in the 50s at Detroit

Oct 29, 1963

Oct 18, 1960

Oct 17, 2013 (wow)

Oct 16, 1973

Oct 15, 1955

 

Probably one of the newer observers at DTW keeping the sensor in an ice bath.  Reads way low lately.

48 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Falls brisk winds & crisp air is here in full force. Turned the heat on yesterday morning as the house got down to 57F. Absolutely loving it.

You should probably insulate it better then as mine has yet to fall below 68.

Another interesting stat that shows how fast things are warming up here.

Took this awesome front yard shot just a bit ago. I think it could pass for Tampa area in October — definitely not fall in Wisconsin.

40s are kind of an odd metric because technically they are possible at any time of the year. While unlikely in the summer at the heat island stations, they are fairly expected in rural areas. At Detroit the last 40s were June 13th & the first 40s September 14th this year, although when DTW hit 50 in August, most of the area was in the 40s.
 
The current average first Fall freeze at Detroit, October 23rd, is 1 day later than the long-term average of October 22nd.

Just to clarify, I am not disagreeing with falls warming.  It is just interesting to see 40s being a measurement being we are nearly the same latitude.  MBY we have had 40s or below every month this year (Note: July 31st was coolest 52F in Flint while MBY was 49F (my area is normally cooler than Flint by 2-4F)). 

Yep, started about 10 years ago. The most hardy palms can handle our weather (GTA) from mid March-mid November with minimal protection. I like pushing the boundaries with vegetation. 
 
Though you wont see me posting warm weather maps as I enjoy winter, especially front loaded winters haha 

Warming falls are definitely happening.

Currently the Bananas and windmill are in pots but at my next place I'll be putting them in the ground. I started with 2 musa and now have 6. Going to cut down 4 of them and mulch and store, the other two will come in the house. 

What do those go down to? I have a windmill palm and a few musa basjoo that Im going to leave out during this weather.