Author Topic: GIG HAAABA' Weather report! How cold is it in your hanger this morning? (Read 4415 times)

Shultzie · « **on:** December 07, 2009, 10:33:07 AM »

Shultzie's Bird water fountain this morn in sunny 27 degree Gig Haaaaba,Wa.

John Stiles · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2009, 10:39:14 AM »

40 when I woke up.........46 now.

Mark Scarborough · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2009, 11:34:00 AM »

well it was 68 degrees this morning,,
Oh uh, that was in the house,,
outside, not quite so nice,, it was a balmy 6 degrees this morning. My truck didnt actually start making heat until I had driven about 10 miles of the trip to work!

anybody want to go flying? yeah didnt think so,,,

Garf · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2009, 11:42:18 AM »

It's averaged about 78* this week. A little breezy though. It's finally flying season in Miami, FL.

Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2009, 12:37:51 PM »

Up here in northern Alberta, its a balmy 25 below centigrade. Might have to put a sweater on if this keeps up!

john e. holliday · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2009, 12:39:48 PM »

Rub it in Garf, in the teens of a morning and high 20's by afternoon. Time I get all the gear on it don't seem that cold for about the first 50 minutes. It the last 10 minutes when all the youngsters are in the class room it gets a little rough. Good time to practice pattern to keep blood circulating. Its only the ones that are late wonder what I am doing.

NED-088 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 07, 2009, 12:46:45 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on December 07, 2009, 10:33:07 AM

Shultzie's Bird water fountain this morn in sunny 27 degree Gig Haaaaba,Wa.

27? Thats like a warm, alsmost hot summer day over here.... 3 days over 30 is a heat wave...

Matt Colan · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2009, 01:53:24 PM »

Below 32, our first snowfall today, just a little dusting though.

Scott Jenkins · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2009, 02:11:08 PM »

Sixty something this morning will probably need sunscreen this afternoon.

Scott

Randy Powell · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2009, 02:46:56 PM »

According to the thermostat on the side of my garage, it was 18° at 6:15am. In Tacoma now at about a quarter to two it's a balmy 28° with winds out of the NE at 15mph with gusts to 25. Feels like 10°, I'm told.

ptg · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2009, 03:04:43 PM »

Dec. 7, 2009
Oakland, California 29 degrees and snow in the back yard 7:30 am. Went to the closet to find my skis and realized I don't have any plus I don't ski very good so I just got a cup of coffee and looked at the snow!
Still slushy ice on the deck at 2:00 pm.

Shultzie · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2009, 03:26:52 PM »

WOW! THAT'S QUITE A VIEW..my brotha Phil

WHAT THE VD~ELL HAS HAPPENED TO GOBBLE-GLOBAL-WARMING?

Matt Colan · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2009, 03:36:37 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on December 07, 2009, 03:26:52 PM

WOW! THAT'S QUITE A VIEW..my brotha Phil
WHAT THE VD~ELL HAS HAPPENED TO GOBBLE-GLOBAL-WARMING?

One of my friend's father said he had one winter where it didn't snow more than a dusting and that's up here in snowy cold, in the middle of nowhere Vermont, and did they worry about global warming then, no! It's all politics...

John Witt · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2009, 04:40:36 PM »

20 F this morning in Edmonds at 5:30 AM when I went to work. I have a pan heater on my diesel and it was barely up to the task. The block heater I bought last month is still sitting in its box.

John W

Bruce Perry · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2009, 05:37:17 PM »

PTG,

Come on up here, i have lots of skiis and warm jackets!! It was, as Gravity mentioned, -24 C here today with a wind chill to -30 C. Thats just cold by any measure. Does keep the margueritas cool although.....

B

Howard Rush · « **Reply #15 on:** December 07, 2009, 07:31:22 PM »

22F here, warm by Matt's Vermont standards. I did have to do a little torch work on the pipes at 3:00 this morning, but they're drained now and ready for winter. I was hoping to wash the Christmas tree before bringing it in, but it looks like It's coming in as-is.

Leester · « **Reply #16 on:** December 07, 2009, 07:49:51 PM »

Well on the road here in Beautiful Downtown Dyersville Iowa (Super

it's 26 above but tomarrow they predict 6-12" of snow and 25-40 mph winds just to keep it from settleing in one spot to long. Hope I can make it home but if I can't I can always visit the "Field of Dreams" movie site .

Almost forgot the farm toy museum is here also.

Shultzie · « **Reply #17 on:** December 07, 2009, 08:26:38 PM »

Quote from: Leester on December 07, 2009, 07:49:51 PM

Well on the road here in Beautiful Downtown Dyersville Iowa (Super it's 26 above but tomarrow they predict 6-12" of snow and 25-40 mph winds just to keep it from settleing in one spot to long. Hope I can make it home but if I can't I can always visit the "Field of Dreams" movie site . Almost forgot the farm toy museum is here also.

Ahhhh the memories...Collins Iowa....a few miles NE of DesMoines...in 1956 we had two weeks of -25 to 35 below 0. We burnt coal..in a pot belly stove and used dipstip heaters. I will never forget just how frightening it became afterwards...with a huge ICE STORM that came in for the kill, just as the temp began to raise above 32.
The town water tower was down and out for over a month....fun stuff.

Clancy Arnold · « **Reply #18 on:** December 08, 2009, 06:32:40 AM »

It was 26 degrees F. Monday morning and it is 36 today.
Here is a picture out the back door of my computer room taken yesterday.
Our first snowfall of the season.
Clancy

Randy Powell · « **Reply #19 on:** December 08, 2009, 08:42:26 AM »

It's funny. I used to do fine in the snow in Idaho. 10° with a foot of snow and while cold, it seemed manageable. Since moving to the Puget Sound area, I find the cold harder to take (14°F at my place this morning). I suppose it's the fact that in Idaho when it was 10°, the humidity was very low. Maybe 10-15% at most. Often lower. Here in Tacoma I just checked the little weather widget. 16° with 70% humidity.

It's not the temp so much as the amount of cold water in the air.

Rob Killick · « **Reply #20 on:** December 08, 2009, 08:58:26 AM »

Hmmmm ...

-26F , here today .
Flying is not fun in this weather (alcohol stings your fingers a bit) and I find it hard to get snowmobile mitts thru the handle for a good grip

Rob K.

Scott B. Riese · « **Reply #21 on:** December 08, 2009, 10:24:15 AM »

In Portland.....right now 16F with 25-35mph EAST WINDS so it feels -4F
Just went on a 1/2 mile walk........so good
NOW it's time to BUILD!!!!

David Shad · « **Reply #22 on:** December 08, 2009, 10:59:58 AM »

Well...its 55 here..Brrrrr..although dreary and raining in Georgia...supposed to be
70 again tomorrow so pretty much back to normal.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #23 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:02:41 AM »

Hey, it's up to 22 degrees here. A regular heatwave.

Don Curry AMA 267060 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:03:51 AM »

Hey Scott, I just got done with my 2 mile walk and seventy degrees in the house is wonderful.

Don

Shultzie · « **Reply #25 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:13:15 AM »

Just got n' E mail from Joe and Shelia Dill in Spokane...and just to rub the cold in for all us newbee's to the cold weather....
They are soon heading out for the SUNNY SOUTH ARIZONA-LANDS with his new Custom one of a kind Chipmunks...(sporting a wing designed by Gary Letsinger!)
(humm? Who's that skinny kid with the Cowboy hat...walkin' in the background behind the Chips?

Bob Reeves · « **Reply #26 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:33:17 AM »

Winter arrived in Oklahoma, supposed to get down to 10 tomorrow night. As I have said before we need to fire up everything we can that dumps green house gas into the atmosphere.. This global warming thing ain't working..

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #27 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:57:44 AM »

Here in the mitten is just plane TFC!! (That's frikken as opposed to the other F word). Poor me, I'm cold below 75 Degrees F, so I am housebound for the duration. Fortunately, my shop is in the basement!!!

Dennis Adamisin · « **Reply #28 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:59:32 PM »

Well I'm about 60 miles west of Randy in the middle of the mitten, and I have been doing everything I know to PREVENT the 8"-12" of snow we are supposed to get over the next couple days:

* I put 280 lbs of sand bags in the pick-em-up truck

* I went out and got gas for the truck & for the snow blower and mixed with oil

* I gassed up the blower and got it started and running for about 5 minutes so it will start easier when I need it...

Failure to do any of the above would guran-durn-tee a blizzard

, so I have done what I can to prevent it..!

Steve Scott · « **Reply #29 on:** December 08, 2009, 09:17:32 PM »

Quote from: Shultzie on December 07, 2009, 10:33:07 AM

Shultzie's Bird water fountain this morn in sunny 27 degree Gig Haaaaba,Wa.

Above or below? We'll wake up in the Twin Cities to possibly 6-9" of snow, fierce winds (near blizzard conditions) and temps (air, not wind chill) will drop to -5 (making the wind chill feel like -25) over the next few days.

Cheers,
Steve (former Gig Haaaba resident)

Shultzie · « **Reply #30 on:** December 08, 2009, 09:27:27 PM »

Quote from: Steve Scott on December 08, 2009, 09:17:32 PM

Above or below? We'll wake up in the Twin Cities to possibly 6-9" of snow, fierce winds (near blizzard conditions) and temps (air, not wind chill) will drop to -5 (making the wind chill feel like -25) over the next few days.

Cheers,
Steve (former Gig Haaaba resident)

HEY SCOTTY!!!27 degrees ABOVE this morn. ...but outside right now its 20 degrees and fallin fast.

billbyles · « **Reply #31 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:43:44 PM »

Quote from: Dennis Adamisin on December 08, 2009, 04:59:32 PM

Well I'm about 60 miles west of Randy in the middle of the mitten, and I have been doing everything I know to PREVENT the 8"-12" of snow we are supposed to get over the next couple days:

* I put 280 lbs of sand bags in the pick-em-up truck

* I went out and got gas for the truck & for the snow blower and mixed with oil

* I gassed up the blower and got it started and running for about 5 minutes so it will start easier when I need it...

Failure to do any of the above would guran-durn-tee a blizzard , so I have done what I can to prevent it..!

Yeah, but did you do your "No Snow" dance Dennis?

Bill

Matt Colan · « **Reply #32 on:** December 09, 2009, 04:17:16 PM »

Got our first "storm" of the year, dumped about 3-5 inches of snow in our area, and now we got freezing rain.

How did you guys in the midwest handle the blizzard you got???

Matt Colan · « **Reply #33 on:** December 09, 2009, 04:33:17 PM »

Quote from: Howard Rush on December 07, 2009, 07:31:22 PM

22F here, warm by Matt's Vermont standards. I did have to do a little torch work on the pipes at 3:00 this morning, but they're drained now and ready for winter. I was hoping to wash the Christmas tree before bringing it in, but it looks like It's coming in as-is.

I'm not a cold person, but once January comes around, and we typically get a cold spell for about 2 weeks. Those two weeks are HORRIBLE, with highs that are typically -10!!! Right now it is around freezing, which is my kind of temp for winter. Can't stand the cold.

Written by Matt, the Transplanted New Yorker

mike hartung · « **Reply #34 on:** December 09, 2009, 05:02:08 PM »

It was 13 deg. far. this morninng; it started snowing about noon time and I checked the dooryard at about 6:00pm and we got 6" and the plows have made their first pass. I got the snowblower going this morning in anticipation cause we got to get mother to school tommorow. Ah building season is here, got Yak-9 wing tips to glue on tommorrow; that is after the chores.

stephen zachary · « **Reply #35 on:** December 10, 2009, 01:17:49 AM »

Its 36 in Baton Rouge right now wind blowing like heck,but at least the rain has stopped

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #36 on:** December 10, 2009, 01:51:19 AM »

Quote from: stephen zachary on December 10, 2009, 01:17:49 AM

Its 36 in Baton Rouge right now wind blowing like heck,but at least the rain has stopped

Same here in Houston, but its back up to 70% rain on Friday! And yuk,and no painting this weekend.

John Stiles · « **Reply #37 on:** December 10, 2009, 06:33:29 AM »

21* this AM

pat king · « **Reply #38 on:** December 10, 2009, 06:40:44 AM »

Well this global warming is rough!

It is a balmy 3 degrees here just south of Chicago. Oh, the wind is still blowing about 20 MPH so the wind chill is well below zero.

Pat

EddyR · « **Reply #39 on:** December 10, 2009, 07:07:43 AM »

It was 66 here yesterday just east of Charlotte. The winds were up to 50MPH. I had a large tree come down last night and one came down last week. The one last week did a glancing blow of my workshop but didn't do much damage. It was so warm here yesterday I had the house back door open all afternoon. A hornet flew in but I could not local him until I put my shoe on and he stung me right in the arch of my foot.

I have been stung many times but none of them hurt like this did. The pain and swelling was so bad I considered going to the hospital emergency. I didn't go and it is better today and I can hobble around on it. The weather here is not going to be anygood for flying for at least a week.
Ed H^^big foot

don Burke · « **Reply #40 on:** December 10, 2009, 07:25:24 AM »

SOCAL low desert this AM is in the high 30s, gets up to 60-70- 80 during the day in the sun. I've even had to wear a jacket outside the last couple of days. We had rain the other day, a couple of inches.

One of my neighbors is from Chicago. He says he turns on WGN every now and then to watch the weather and chuckle! I moved out here from the East coast in 1962 to get away from the miserable weather and humidity and I am glad I did!