Re: How's the weather?

rdw777 Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:44 am

20 F in Forsan TX today…. Winter storm watch until Thu….Super slick roads here too…I’m on the edge of our little town and got this photo yesterday evening across the street …

fredvon4 Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:00 am

Oct 2019 I got on list for a new Ford Maverick not to be built or delivered until April 2022 nearly a year ago. Of course I ordered the Gas engine version with Every option BUT NOT the off road package. But for those not in the know the truck has 4 wheel drive option and 4K tow option.

This is first real weather where I could go and play with the different "Driving Modes" ....but I am staying off the roads, unlike when I was younger and took the kids "DRIFTING" in some open parking lot

Man I am getting boring as an adult...grin

cstatman Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:47 pm

i dont know about "boring"

but! its been nice, when I do stupid stuff (drifting)
and get pulled over - the officers kinda look at me, look at my license, then say "aren't you old enough to know better than this"

I'm willing to play the dottering old fool, and get a warning. Smile

GallopingGhostler Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:46 pm

I think it is a regional thing. Snowed 8" here last week.

Since, been under freezing temps past 7 days, now 25 Deg-F, warmest since, bright and sunny, a change from the cloud cover past couple days. Now most of snow is melted except traces in shade areas.

NEW222 Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:06 pm

rdw777 wrote:20 F in Forsan TX today…. Winter storm watch until Thu….Super slick roads here too…I’m on the edge of our little town and got this photo yesterday evening across the street …

Those poor cacti!!!!!!

getback Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:34 am

Yea beeing old has some advantages , you get away with crap that you would not at 20 yrs. specking of drifting , I came out the drive way on to the rule road and decided it was time to feel the power from the V8 gas sucking Hemi and kick that baby !! If i would not have let up i was headed to the neighbors yard LOL tires were wet and when it caught it wasn't straight DAMMIT!

I don't go out in the snow much as the #300 tires (for one) mud grip or something aren't no better than reg. tires in mud or snow What?

Yabby Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:55 am

That was hilarious Eric @getback lol!

You painted a word picture of the moment of ............. just like Hunter S Thompson cheers

GaryB
'Yabby'

GallopingGhostler Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:42 am

NEW222 wrote:Those poor cacti!!!!!!

My cacti are doing fine after last week's snow. Very Happy

Coming week we are warming up a little.

HalfaDave Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:57 pm

Hi All,
With Respect,
I have this story,:
I patched up fibreglass for local racing cars, friends.
They ice raced in winter, for fun.
Minden, Ontario make the 'Peanut' shaped track, out of ice.
All I know, is it was 2ft thick, and there were 8ft drifts of snow all around.
Snow tires first, then the metal studs... (metal studs are not allowed on roads here anymore)
So, my buddy says, bring up my plane, do a halftime show...
I agreed, with my Falcon56 with an OSSFR.40 on lexan skiis. Worked out great. (~0C)
Until, they strapped a helmet on me,
Getting in a stripped out old Volvo on regular new snow tires was insane.
Got third. (I was a passenger, part of the rules)
The rest of it was more insane... (I was passenger on studded class, with the ripped out VW Rabbit my friend built!)
Somehow, we all won.
Bouncing off of other cars and drifts, does not work.
Everyone drove home safely...
My story,
Dave

Kim Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:16 pm

Hopefully not too much of a thread hijack, but it DOES illustrate the weather on the Hill Today:

Dead Calm Air, 30°F, and just enough sunshine to put a glaze on the compacted snow in the front yard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt4i9LW2-6k

GallopingGhostler Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:10 pm

Kim, you are really blessed to have your front lawn as your real (not virtual) aerodrome playground. That flight was fantastic, those extra large wheels allow you all sorts of terrain freedom in takeoffs and landings. Your cold icy weather has been mirroring ours the last couple days.

It was interesting to note the change in wind noise, once you got out of the tree ground effects and where there is a definite breeze above, perhaps light but definitely there. Until the some 50 houses popped up behind our house, I sort of had what you had, an empty 30 acres of playground populated by prairie dogs. Now, we are basically continuous neighborhood has the city has expanded east.

I remembered the summer breezes above when I was living in Biloxi, Mississippi back in the mid 1960's. Once I got a kite beyond the first roll of string (two tied together), my kite would continue to fly when we had dead calm where I was standing in our backyard. Back then, the sky was always a deep blue (like when we moved here 23 years ago), not the haze and man-made sprayed cover we see now permeating eastern New Mexico year round.

Kim Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:30 pm

Hey George,
Yeah, I'm really lucky, and remind myself of the fact fairly often.

Your comment about the high altitude kite brought back a memory from when I was about 7 years old. March was always a big month for kites in our little town, and a BUNCH of kids would be gathered at the ball field, launching mostly the standard paper diamond types, with the occasional box kite mixed in.

Late in the day, after the wind had completely died away, one kid still had his kite way up on the sky, riding a breeze that didn't exist close to the ground. I wondered then what it could see from way up there.

A cool memory.

getback Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:26 am

I wonder also like what can bee seen up on the air ? That is one thing about your areal video fling around and viewing all around from up in the sky !! I flew a kite for a week after putting lord who knows how much sting to it / would come home from school and it would move around in the sky and having to find that little dot in the wild blue yonder. Very Happy

rsv1cox Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:27 am

Kim wrote:[color=#6633ff][size=16][b][b]Hopefully not too much of a thread hijack, but it DOES illustrate the weather on the Hill Today:

Dead Calm Air, 30°F, and just enough sunshine to put a glaze on the compacted snow in the front yard.k

Sacrilege..........An electric with big wheels and three cameras and it still jumps off the ground.

Kim Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:40 am

getback wrote:I wonder also like what can bee seen up on the air ? That is one thing about your areal video fling around and viewing all around from up in the sky !! I flew a kite for a week after putting lord who knows how much sting to it / would come home from school and it would move around in the sky and having to find that little dot in the wild blue yonder.

Yeah Man!
That was about the only way we could "touch the sky" back in the day! I remember seeing an add somewhere, for a small camera with a timer that could be lofted on a kite and take an aerial photo of its owner far below.

There was also (I think in the Sears Christmas Catalog) a sailplane with a similar camera that was launched with a bungee.

Figuring my "awareness of surroundings" during my youth, I'd probably just gotten a photo of a tree limb, stuck through my plane...that is...if I ever got it back!!!

Kim Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:42 am

rsv1cox wrote:
Kim wrote:[color=#6633ff][size=16][b]Hopefully not too much of a thread hijack, but it DOES illustrate the weather on the Hill Today:

Dead Calm Air, 30°F, and just enough sunshine to put a glaze on the compacted snow in the front yard.k

Sacrilege..........An electric with big wheels and three cameras and it still jumps off the ground.

[b]Well, I'll just take advantage of the current wave of popular perversion and say it "identifies" as a high-powered glow engine plane!!!

balogh Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:16 am

That bird is a real beast of burden, Kim, hauling 3 cameras so easy? Nice video...I stopped flying when ambient temperatures here dropped below +5Celsius..my un-gloved hands shiver at that cold temperature so hard that handling the sticks on my radio becomes a challenge...

GallopingGhostler Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:50 am

rsv1cox wrote:Sacrilege..........An electric with big wheels and three cameras and it still jumps off the ground.

I look to the positive, Bob. Certainly not internal combustion powered, but to perform when battery systems have reduced power output in colder weather, does say it is definitely not underpowered. Very Happy

Looking forward to warmer short sleeve weather. lol!

Kim Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:20 am

balogh wrote:That bird is a real beast of burden, Kim, hauling 3 cameras so easy? Nice video...I stopped flying when ambient temperatures here dropped below +5Celsius..my un-gloved hands shiver at that cold temperature so hard that handling the sticks on my radio becomes a challenge...

Yeah, this is where E-Power really shines. I can totally prep up the plane and turn on its cameras while inside, step out the door and launch. With the winds being so calm yesterday, I didn't even need gloves, and knocked off five or six flights through the day.

The extra weight actually made the Cub track and feel like a "Big" plane...just had to be on the trigger with the throttle when landing.

It can be fun doing glow in this kind of weather, especially if all the equipment is warm, but it IS a great luxury to just punch and go, do the flight, then retreat back to the house!

rsv1cox Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:23 am

Four degrees F above outside, 34.0 in the attached garage. I'm not going out there!!

roddie Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:24 am

Currently 2F here in N. Smithfield, RI (New England/USA) but got down to -6F when I checked earlier in the morning, before sunrise. The ground is bare though. There's been very little snowfall.. and what little there was; melted soon after. The average seasonal temperature for this region has been above 40F so far..

With the increased cost of energy for heating, it's been a blessing. Temps are forecast to return to 40F+ by tomorrow.

GallopingGhostler Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:23 pm

We have a reprieve today, light jacket weather.

AccuWeather for Clovis NM at 11:19 a.m. MST today.

Tiempo actual = Actual Time
Calidad de aire = Air Quality
Viento = Wind
Ráfalgas de vientos = Wind Gusts
Mayormente nublado = Mostly Cloudy.

HalfaDave Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:23 pm

Hi All,
Normally here near Toronto, Canada,
GroundHog Day,
Most years, cars are all covered with salt.
We can take,
6 more weeks of this....
Dave

GallopingGhostler Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:38 pm

Today is Spring weather for us, at least for a few days. 70 Deg-F = 21 Deg-C

rsv1cox Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:18 pm

Goodness, early middle February, northern West Virginia, 60 degrees, sun out. Tractor, logs, burn pile. Broke a sweat. Can't let a good day this time of year go to waste.

Thanks for sending it over George!

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