November 2008 Weather News!
Well, I know Thanksgiving is not the day for giving and getting special gifts. I believe that happens next month if the whole shithouse doesn’t go up in flames. But yours truly received a very special gift on Thanksgiving, RAIN! The first rain in seventy one days at The Land was not a flood maker but we will take every drop we can get. It only rains on Thanksgiving here in the desert once every twelve years. It was even more of a blessing as September and October saw no rain, the first time in thirty five years.
The cool down of fall is finally upon us, even here in the desert. Soon many of my fine feathered friends and inbred family will be arriving from as far away as Canada. Although we curse the heat of summer be thankful we don’t have year round temperatures as mild as the ones we are experiencing. Every duck in the world would live here all year leaving piles of duck shit stinking up the entire place. Soon duck hunters would arrive leaving piles of garbage in their wake of death and destruction. Then a bomb would be a blessing to cleanse this used to be paradise.
The average temperature at the Land at the beginning of the month was twenty one degrees warmer than at the end of the month. The average temperature at Talking Trees and Antelope Hill was the same.
The average temperature on the Land was fifty seven degrees. It was thirty six degrees for Talking Trees and Antelope Hill. On 11-5 it was a “nippley” ten degrees for a morning low.
The average humidity for the Land was 35.53 percent, with an average dew point of 23 degrees. There were two foggy mornings after the Thanksgiving rain and a fog alert was issued on the third morning for agricultural areas around the Valley.
The average wind speed for the month was 3.78mph. There were four days in a row with no recordable wind but it blew hard on several occasions giving us two wind chill days.
The rainfall at the Land was .22 inches leaving us a total of 6.83 inches for the year.
Lake levels are holding their own or still diminishing. Lake Pleasant is dropping fast at a level of 50%. Mead refuses to grow at 45%. Lake Powell is holding its own at 58% and Roosevelt stands at an impressive 90% for this time of year.
Now let’s get right to daily statistics of the month. You will read in the exciting paragraphs ahead that poor old southern California is still burning up. Perhaps it should be renamed from the Golden state to the Charred state. It will simply “stagger you out of your mind.”
11-1. 94 degrees in Phoenix. Twenty one days in October were over 90 degrees. Flash flood watches and snow in northern California.
11-2. Thunderstorms in Sedona. More snow in northern California. Residents in Hamlin, Texas have killed twenty rattlesnakes in the past two days; warmer weather to blame.
Well, I know Thanksgiving is not the day for giving and getting special gifts. I believe that happens next month if the whole shithouse doesn’t go up in flames. But yours truly received a very special gift on Thanksgiving, RAIN! The first rain in seventy one days at The Land was not a flood maker but we will take every drop we can get. It only rains on Thanksgiving here in the desert once every twelve years. It was even more of a blessing as September and October saw no rain, the first time in thirty five years.
The cool down of fall is finally upon us, even here in the desert. Soon many of my fine feathered friends and inbred family will be arriving from as far away as Canada. Although we curse the heat of summer be thankful we don’t have year round temperatures as mild as the ones we are experiencing. Every duck in the world would live here all year leaving piles of duck shit stinking up the entire place. Soon duck hunters would arrive leaving piles of garbage in their wake of death and destruction. Then a bomb would be a blessing to cleanse this used to be paradise.
The average temperature at the Land at the beginning of the month was twenty one degrees warmer than at the end of the month. The average temperature at Talking Trees and Antelope Hill was the same.
The average temperature on the Land was fifty seven degrees. It was thirty six degrees for Talking Trees and Antelope Hill. On 11-5 it was a “nippley” ten degrees for a morning low.
The average humidity for the Land was 35.53 percent, with an average dew point of 23 degrees. There were two foggy mornings after the Thanksgiving rain and a fog alert was issued on the third morning for agricultural areas around the Valley.
The average wind speed for the month was 3.78mph. There were four days in a row with no recordable wind but it blew hard on several occasions giving us two wind chill days.
The rainfall at the Land was .22 inches leaving us a total of 6.83 inches for the year.
Lake levels are holding their own or still diminishing. Lake Pleasant is dropping fast at a level of 50%. Mead refuses to grow at 45%. Lake Powell is holding its own at 58% and Roosevelt stands at an impressive 90% for this time of year.
Now let’s get right to daily statistics of the month. You will read in the exciting paragraphs ahead that poor old southern California is still burning up. Perhaps it should be renamed from the Golden state to the Charred state. It will simply “stagger you out of your mind.”
11-1. 94 degrees in Phoenix. Twenty one days in October were over 90 degrees. Flash flood watches and snow in northern California.
11-2. Thunderstorms in Sedona. More snow in northern California. Residents in Hamlin, Texas have killed twenty rattlesnakes in the past two days; warmer weather to blame.
Heavy flooding in France has killed five in Paris.
11-3. Three and a half inches of rain and snow in northern California. Vietnam death toll from flooding has risen to fifty, eighteen in Hanoi.
11-4. Temperatures are twenty five degrees above normal in Illinois with eighty five degrees recorded in Chicago.
11-3. Three and a half inches of rain and snow in northern California. Vietnam death toll from flooding has risen to fifty, eighteen in Hanoi.
11-4. Temperatures are twenty five degrees above normal in Illinois with eighty five degrees recorded in Chicago.
North Dakota food banks to only accept deer taken with arrows; worries about lead bullets. (Editor’s note: let us not forget to help feed the needy but let us always be mindful of being politically correct.)
11-5. Snow north of Flagstaff at elevations above eight thousand feet. Death toll from flooding in Viet Nam up to ninety. Ozone hole over Antarctica fifth biggest in history.
11-6. Arizona woman runs a mile after aggressive, rabid fox latches onto her arm. Freeze warning issued for Cochise county. Snow in the Sierras and a blizzard in South Dakota leaving three feet of snow. Tropical storm Paloma headed for Cuba. Landslides from heavy rain in China kill seventy two, sixty thousand evacuated. Freak storm in the Philippines capsizes ferry killing seventy two.
11-7. Arizona health officials issue rabies warning. Snow helps Utah start early ski season. Blizzard traps hundreds of drivers overnight in South Dakota; three foot drifts in Rapid City. Hurricane Paloma headed toward Cayman Islands as a category three with 115mph winds.
11-5. Snow north of Flagstaff at elevations above eight thousand feet. Death toll from flooding in Viet Nam up to ninety. Ozone hole over Antarctica fifth biggest in history.
11-6. Arizona woman runs a mile after aggressive, rabid fox latches onto her arm. Freeze warning issued for Cochise county. Snow in the Sierras and a blizzard in South Dakota leaving three feet of snow. Tropical storm Paloma headed for Cuba. Landslides from heavy rain in China kill seventy two, sixty thousand evacuated. Freak storm in the Philippines capsizes ferry killing seventy two.
11-7. Arizona health officials issue rabies warning. Snow helps Utah start early ski season. Blizzard traps hundreds of drivers overnight in South Dakota; three foot drifts in Rapid City. Hurricane Paloma headed toward Cayman Islands as a category three with 115mph winds.
Thieves caught with twelve pigs crowded into a mini van outside of Budapest. (Trust me my faithful readers this is madness. I have driven a van with a pig in back. The only thing that kept the damned swine out of my and Goedert’s lap was a wooden pallet tie wired between the two front seats!)
11-8. Hurricane Paloma heads toward Cuba as a dangerous category four storm and tens of thousands are evacuated. Major crop damage feared already damaged by the past two hurricanes of the season.
11-9. Pea sized hail in Sun City, Arizona with 45mph winds. Heavy snow in Flagstaff with six inches above seven thousand feet. Hundreds of homes damaged in Cuba from Paloma but the hurricane is downsized to a tropical storm as it moves east.
11-10. Great Plains digging out after blizzard dumps forty five inches of snow near Deadwood, South Dakota. There are twenty foot snowdrifts in southwestern South Dakota.
11-8. Hurricane Paloma heads toward Cuba as a dangerous category four storm and tens of thousands are evacuated. Major crop damage feared already damaged by the past two hurricanes of the season.
11-9. Pea sized hail in Sun City, Arizona with 45mph winds. Heavy snow in Flagstaff with six inches above seven thousand feet. Hundreds of homes damaged in Cuba from Paloma but the hurricane is downsized to a tropical storm as it moves east.
11-10. Great Plains digging out after blizzard dumps forty five inches of snow near Deadwood, South Dakota. There are twenty foot snowdrifts in southwestern South Dakota.
ONLY IN CALIFORNIA: four hundred squirrels placed on birth control in the city of Davis.
11-12. Idaho woman finds a frozen pig’s head stuck on a pole in her front yard.
11-13. Wind advisory for western Arizona. Temperatures ten degrees above normal in the Valley of the Sun. Seven rescued after storm washes out road on Oregon coast. How tornados form is still a mystery but a new study shows dust pollution in atmosphere my nudge super cell thunderstorms into spawning twisters.
11-12. Idaho woman finds a frozen pig’s head stuck on a pole in her front yard.
11-13. Wind advisory for western Arizona. Temperatures ten degrees above normal in the Valley of the Sun. Seven rescued after storm washes out road on Oregon coast. How tornados form is still a mystery but a new study shows dust pollution in atmosphere my nudge super cell thunderstorms into spawning twisters.
Surfer claims whale tapped him with its tail when he skimmed over the whale.
11-14. Fires fueled by 75mph winds burn one hundred luxury homes in Santa Barbara, California and injure thirteen. “Regional haze” or smog stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies for the entire world. Huge plumes have darkened mega cities in Asia by twenty five percent.
11-15. Red flag warning for central and south west Arizona. Patients evacuated from L.A. hospital due to fires. Five hundred mobile homes destroyed. Orange County loses a dozen buildings. Lake effect snow in northern Ohio. North Carolina storm turns into tornado killing two.
11-16. Fifty thousand evacuated from California wildfires. Three major fires have destroyed eight hundred homes. Many people had five minutes to evacuate. Wind gusts fifty miles per hour in L.A. County with twelve percent humidity.
11-17. Wind power being studied on Navajo Nation in Arizona. Eighty seven degrees in Phoenix broke old record of eighty six set in 1990. Nine hundred homes scorched in southern California, San Diego wildfires force evacuations. Falling boulders close cabins at Yosemite National Park. Great Lakes blanketed in two feet of snow. Authorities in Oregon and Washington bracing for mudslides and road closures from heavy rain. Snoqualmie River six feet above flood stage. Some Texans still living in tents after Hurricane Ike, housing scarce. Tropical storm Nowl heads toward Vietnam, eighty thousand evacuated, primarily farmers.
11-18. Dry up of Lake Mead will happen in next several decades. Half of world’s population could face water shortages due to climate change by 2080, especially Asia.
11-19. Father saves two sons but drowns after car slides off snowy road and into pond in New York. Heavy rain and flooding causes power outages for thousands along Australian coast.
11-20. Eighty two year old Pennsylvania man found alive and conscious after getting lost in the woods for thirty two hours. There were snow squalls and the temperature was 18 degrees when he was found. Layered clothing saved his life after getting lost scouting for a hunting spot. Australian storms dump eighteen inches of snow in a few hours along the coast.
11-21. Seventeen degrees at the Grand Canyon and twenty two degrees in Winslow.
11-22. High pressure breaking down over Arizona and possible rain and snow for Thanksgiving.
11-23. Old subway cars in New York being dumped into the ocean to act as man made reefs. They are calling it a “green dump.” (Editor’s note: a green dump my ass! Just a clever way to dump garbage that will give off poisoning chemicals for years to come conveniently out of sight.)
11-14. Fires fueled by 75mph winds burn one hundred luxury homes in Santa Barbara, California and injure thirteen. “Regional haze” or smog stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies for the entire world. Huge plumes have darkened mega cities in Asia by twenty five percent.
11-15. Red flag warning for central and south west Arizona. Patients evacuated from L.A. hospital due to fires. Five hundred mobile homes destroyed. Orange County loses a dozen buildings. Lake effect snow in northern Ohio. North Carolina storm turns into tornado killing two.
11-16. Fifty thousand evacuated from California wildfires. Three major fires have destroyed eight hundred homes. Many people had five minutes to evacuate. Wind gusts fifty miles per hour in L.A. County with twelve percent humidity.
11-17. Wind power being studied on Navajo Nation in Arizona. Eighty seven degrees in Phoenix broke old record of eighty six set in 1990. Nine hundred homes scorched in southern California, San Diego wildfires force evacuations. Falling boulders close cabins at Yosemite National Park. Great Lakes blanketed in two feet of snow. Authorities in Oregon and Washington bracing for mudslides and road closures from heavy rain. Snoqualmie River six feet above flood stage. Some Texans still living in tents after Hurricane Ike, housing scarce. Tropical storm Nowl heads toward Vietnam, eighty thousand evacuated, primarily farmers.
11-18. Dry up of Lake Mead will happen in next several decades. Half of world’s population could face water shortages due to climate change by 2080, especially Asia.
11-19. Father saves two sons but drowns after car slides off snowy road and into pond in New York. Heavy rain and flooding causes power outages for thousands along Australian coast.
11-20. Eighty two year old Pennsylvania man found alive and conscious after getting lost in the woods for thirty two hours. There were snow squalls and the temperature was 18 degrees when he was found. Layered clothing saved his life after getting lost scouting for a hunting spot. Australian storms dump eighteen inches of snow in a few hours along the coast.
11-21. Seventeen degrees at the Grand Canyon and twenty two degrees in Winslow.
11-22. High pressure breaking down over Arizona and possible rain and snow for Thanksgiving.
11-23. Old subway cars in New York being dumped into the ocean to act as man made reefs. They are calling it a “green dump.” (Editor’s note: a green dump my ass! Just a clever way to dump garbage that will give off poisoning chemicals for years to come conveniently out of sight.)
Dozens of Pilot whales beach themselves in Australia and die. Eleven saved out of fifty three. (Perhaps Australia has had a “green dump” program also.)
11-24. Snow flurries at the Snow Bowl. Heavy rain predicted in southern California will cause mudslides in burned out areas.
11-25. Eight to fourteen inches of snow predicted in Arizona above nine thousand feet. Germ alert: steer clear of flatbed chicken trucks and roll up your windows. (?)
11-28. Three men enjoying the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles were swept to their deaths by a huge wave. Afghans face winter of widespread hunger brought on partly by decades of drought.
11-30. Bad weather in the South and South East. Flights delayed from Illinois up to New York. Tornado watches posted. Weather keeps the space shuttle Endeavor form landing in Florida and touches down at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The quote of the month from the Mighty Broadduck is this: “Take a look at your life, look at what you’ve done. If it doesn’t make you proud, go and get your gun”.
The song of the month was going to be “Whiskey Rain” by the Hickman Dalton Gang. But for reasons as deep and fleeting as the weather it will be “If We Make It Through December” by the Mighty Hag himself, Merle Haggard.
The fine staff at Blueduck Weather sincerely thanks you for your ongoing readership.
11-24. Snow flurries at the Snow Bowl. Heavy rain predicted in southern California will cause mudslides in burned out areas.
11-25. Eight to fourteen inches of snow predicted in Arizona above nine thousand feet. Germ alert: steer clear of flatbed chicken trucks and roll up your windows. (?)
11-28. Three men enjoying the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles were swept to their deaths by a huge wave. Afghans face winter of widespread hunger brought on partly by decades of drought.
11-30. Bad weather in the South and South East. Flights delayed from Illinois up to New York. Tornado watches posted. Weather keeps the space shuttle Endeavor form landing in Florida and touches down at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The quote of the month from the Mighty Broadduck is this: “Take a look at your life, look at what you’ve done. If it doesn’t make you proud, go and get your gun”.
The song of the month was going to be “Whiskey Rain” by the Hickman Dalton Gang. But for reasons as deep and fleeting as the weather it will be “If We Make It Through December” by the Mighty Hag himself, Merle Haggard.
The fine staff at Blueduck Weather sincerely thanks you for your ongoing readership.
Until next month remember Pioneers took bullets, Settlers took land.
Professor MR Blueduck.
Professor MR Blueduck.
