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Weather: INTRODUCTION: Wow a page on weather. Weather is fascinating. Liking or studying it does not make you nerdy or geeky. I’m sure Bill and Jo from Twister are geeky! It’s more interesting than art. In a way, it becomes documented and is art. From both extremes, whatever shit the good lord from above sends us, we experience it outside. From the overhot regions of the southwest, the muggy east, the perfect east foothills on the Rockies, the toasted (literally) California , the shitty and bitter Midwest , we have it all. My ideal forecast [what I deal with now can be found between these [ ] symbols]: Summer: A good thunderstorm (not just rain but entertaining lightning and thunder) every few days but mostly warm and dry. 10-20% humidity. Average temp 82 for high, 55 for low. HATE muggy mornings. High temperatures reach 100 a couple days a year but it’s not oppressive. Cloudy most days to hide the shittin sun. [More drier than ever, hot and sunny every day, lack of thunderstorms along with rain, yet muggy, low temps in the icky 70s] Fall: A real fall unlike Ohio the last few years. Lots of perfect sunny days in the 60s and 70s before we go to winter mode. [wet as hell, rain that is a few months too late to save the grass, too late to benefit any, goes from hot into October to cold in November rather quick, only just a handful of perfect fall days] Winter: Unless it’s snowing, it’s sunny with calm winds and temps averaging around 45. A couple temps a season under 10 all day to add excitement but usually during snow storms. Snowfall of 6”+ is frequent, it melts and comes back every few weeks. Temps in the 60s for a couple days at a time are not uncommon and are not uncommon within a week of a big chill. Snowfall of a foot and a half plus happen a couple times a year. Unlike summer, cloudy days are rare unless it’s snowing or snow is coming or has passed within a few hours. [always cloudy, don’t you wish you had sun now instead of the ass hot sun in summer, still plenty of rain six months too late, should be snow but isn’t, could be brittle cold consistent for over a week, we do not get the warm Chinook Mexican air that Denver and the eastern Rocky foothills might get, we get shit from freaking north neighbor, Canada] Spring: Thunderstorms every few days. Some strong. Otherwise, plenty of days in the 60s and lower 70s between March and June before summer arrives. [don’t get me started, I never gets warm for good until May, and April 2007 we spend a whole week in a row below 35 degrees all day, all clouded and wet, sick of living in the Great (oh they’re so great) Lakes] BLOG 3/24/2008 A cold, bland, and a cloudy rainy month has added to my depression. Waiting for this month to be over, the snow on the 7th and 8th was good but the weather has very much sucked. Cold, cloudy, rainy, everyday but always 10-15 degrees below average. Not feeling too good either. There’s 8 more days of this month. The temps are supposed to warm and the boy’s 1st b-day party should be a blast and should be near 60 that day. It's not "spring" here until April or May. BLIZZARD BLOG 3/8/2008 Wow, it looks we are getting a snowstorm worth talking about. One site calls for 7.2 inches (accuweather and their EXACT numbers), another 6-10, the last site, says TEN TO FIFTEEN (10-15). Biggest storm since my senior year. Shows how old I am and how long it’s been, five years. We got 20 1/2 inches and had the most snow in the eastern half of the US. The only other places with more snow were the Rockies, and Sierra's of California. Drifts were 2-4 around my house. Weather people said it didn't fit the description of "blizzard" because it was windy but not for long enough. Bullshit. It was windy and I had 36" drifts on each side of my house. If a 4 inch snowfall in 1978 with winds can qualify as a blizzard, a 20 inch storm with winds sure as hell can qualify. It snowed from 10 AM Friday to 5PM Saturday, left and the skies opened up, as if nothing happened a few hours earlier. Funny, by 8 days later, 99.9% (not piles of snow in parking lots) of the snow was gone after a string of 45 degree days and one day near 60. BLOG 1/17/2008 Weather here is taking a huge dip here this weekend. Just like last February, we'll have a few days with highs in the teens and lows just above or at zero. This has been a month of highs and lows. From 68 two days in a row on the 7th and 8th to the high of 20 on January 3ish. Lately, it's been modest, temps at normal for high and a couple degrees above the average for low. There's been snow but no big storms at all. This piddly lake effect stuff that somehow makes it all the way down here - probably from the north instead of northwest winds I assume - covers the grass, street and driveway only. BLOG 9/27/2007 I had a dream last night that a BIG cold front was coming and a few inches of snow. Everyone, every channel, even the friggin Weatherbug agreed on one temperature. One degree for a high. 1. The low would be -12. With a few hours of daylight left before it comes, I was walking around what looked like Bethel and Sawmill with not even a proper coat, it was probably decent outside like 50 or 60. SMB turned on the light and took a leak and that adventure was finished. I never felt a day like that or if I did, I don't remember. Supposedly on January 19, 1994 when the all time record low was -22 to -24, the high was a whopping -7 and in Ohio , that is a problem. In Montana , it's -7 every friggin morning in the mountains but it's not a crises there. People still get into their 88 Suburban's (I want one BTW) and go get some coffee and the newspaper. I was living at my childhood home on Waltham , a 1925 house with probably no insulation, one central unit heating the who house 3 floors plus a basement. We survived though you friggin pussies. I don't mind the cold too much but in Montana it's a lot better. Less wind, more sun, lower humidity, lot less bitter. In Ohio , it gets tiring fast because it's gray. Gas heat sucks too. With the President not giving a fuck about the oil problem here, the barrel is $81. People will tell you gas heat is hotter, cheaper and non efficient. Son of a bitch, I run the thing on 65 in the winter, the gas bill rolls over the summer electric bills. I wanted electric heat but you can't find it around here. The next hizzouse out west will probably have baseboard heat, electric everything because with another Bush or one of his fart buddies, the barrel of oil will be $120. But what is worse? 20 degrees, no sun, bitter, windy 90 degrees, burning sun, humid, stale air, no wind Now I want to play in snow. I was listening to hits from 1951 and this seems like play in snow music. That's what people did back in the day was play in snow. They had big snows, cold winters. They didn't have 10TV having different correspondents in every freakin different county. OMG 5.9 inches of snow, no school, you won't get to work for christ's sake, the dam will break loose and swallow you, that jagged tree will fall on your house because of ice, your SUV is stuck in snow (why the hell did you buy it anyway?). Don't we hear any good snow storm stories these days? No! Go to Ashtabula , OH . In northeast Ohio in the county of the same name, the last county before Pennsylvania , and it's on the lake. They get feets of snow regulary. Do you hear them bitch or are they on the freakin Weather Channel? No. BLOG 2/01/07 Weather here blows It's going to be under 20 degrees all day for 4 days but what are we going to get with it? FUCKING FLURRIES. No big snows like out west but flurries. It's going to be weird to be in 0 degrees and the only snow you'll see is the clumps of it piled in the parking lots. I got a couple of minutes here before I have to visit my favorite dumpster but here's my ideal forecast for January: Monday: Bright Sun, no wind, 38. Monday Night: Clouding up, no wind, 22. Tuesday: Snow in the afternoon. 4-7 inches. 5-10 MPH Wind from the South, 32 dropping through the 20s. Tuesday Night: More snow, additional 5-8 inches. 0-5 Wind. Temperatures dropping to around 6 (things will get interesting as opposed to boring). Wednesday/Wednesday Night: Snow finishing up. Total accumation 12-16 inches. Winds 5-10 from south to create blizzard conditions. High 7 Low -8 Thursday/Thursday Night: Sunny, calm wind, High of 8, Low of 6 before temperatures start rising at 11PM. Friday/Friday Night: Sunny, no wind, High of 32. (see, after 3 days, cold disappears unlike it does in Ohio or the freakin Great Lakes). Low 25. Saturday: Sunny, High 47, Low 32 Sunday: Sunny, High 56, Low 35 See there you go, you get your big friggin snow but you don't get the 12 freakin days of 20 bitter degrees in a row. The Great Lakes and Midwest can bite me! Get me the hell out of here and plant me in the Rockies. Weather stations: Columbus, Ohio (west side) weather:
My second area, and potential home in a few years, Bozeman, Montana:
My parents second and future primary home, Big Sky, Montana (actual temperature may be observed elsewhere, click banner to see):
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