perumbula
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Post by perumbula on Nov 19, 2014 23:52:43 GMT
If your answer to this is "yes, and it's awful." My sympathies, we should get together and commiserate over hot chocolate and soup.
If your answer is "No idea." Tell me where you live, please, because I want to go there.
It feels ungrateful to complain about weather when I don't live in Buffalo, but it is insanely early for my area to be getting single digit daytime temps (F). We forgot to leave a tap running last night and we woke up to no water in most of the house. sigh. We had pipes freeze about five times last year. If it's happening this early, I shudder to think how often we are going to have to deal with it this winter.
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Dalai Mama
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Post by Dalai Mama on Nov 20, 2014 0:08:55 GMT
I know what it is and we do get them here but typically in summer.
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Post by red88 on Nov 20, 2014 0:21:22 GMT
I know what it is, & thankfully I don't have "inversion" here, but I do have some rain. (Typed in Oregon)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:22:27 GMT
No. (Texas)
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Post by Jen in NCal on Nov 20, 2014 0:27:51 GMT
Yep. It makes flying into Phoenix in the winter time so super fun. Also keeps the smog in.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 20, 2014 0:28:25 GMT
yes
ETA it is a good thing in coastal Southern California, I'm sorry it is causing you problems
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Post by anxiousmom on Nov 20, 2014 0:36:32 GMT
I think so...but I think that here in Florida it usually results in rain.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:42:02 GMT
If your answer to this is "yes, and it's awful." My sympathies, we should get together and commiserate over hot chocolate and soup. Yes and sounds good to me! |
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theshyone
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Post by theshyone on Nov 20, 2014 0:46:46 GMT
If you are freezing that much your insulation needs upgraded.
I thought inversions could happen anywhere? We get them in the middle of Alberta where I live. Air quality plummets
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:50:31 GMT
I know what one is. Our biggest mess with them is in the spring. An inversion can be the lead up to a bad tornado when it breaks.
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 20, 2014 0:51:46 GMT
I live in Utah, I sure am familiar with inversion. YUCK. It depresses me, the mountains are my most favorite thing about Utah and not being able to see them because of inversion is just so depressing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:52:50 GMT
We have two seasons here, hot and inversion. I hate it Makes me highly drpressed
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Gennifer
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Post by Gennifer on Nov 20, 2014 0:55:18 GMT
HA, yes, I do know. And I hate it every time I drive into SLC. Luckily, where I live in the mountains, we don't have it. We are almost always warmer than SLC during clear winter days, we get less snow, and we are cooler in the summer. You can come visit me, if you'd like.  |
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azredhead
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Post by azredhead on Nov 20, 2014 1:30:55 GMT
I live in Utah, I sure am familiar with inversion. YUCK. It depresses me, the mountains are my most favorite thing about Utah and not being able to see them because of inversion is just so depressing. Yup! We took a picture of it when we moved so we wouldn't miss it! It's YUCKY! Between end of Jan to March it's yucky. My family still lives there but my folks moved farther north of the valley, so they don't get it quite as bad. I SO don't miss it. |
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perumbula
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Post by perumbula on Nov 20, 2014 1:34:51 GMT
Thank you for the sympathy. Inversions suck. Luckily ours is supposed to lift overnight. I am glad we are at the end of the valley away from the city so we don't get quite as much smog as they do, but we do still get the cold. As for the pipes, yes we do. Our house is old and we have done a lot to improve the issues caused by a weird foundation, but if it gets cold enough we still get frozen pipes. We'll have to do some insulating. We don't know exactly where they are freezing, but we have a general area narrowed down. We went years without an issue because it just didn't get cold enough, but if this winter is going to be like last winter, we have to fix it.  BTW, for those of you lucky enough to live in areas without them, here's a quick summary. Inversions happen when a high pressure system gets trapped in a valley. The air isn't able to move on like it should so things just keep getting colder. It traps pollutants with it so it's not great for air quality. The air is warmer higher up than down on the ground, hence the name inversion. They can be hard to get rid of. It seems ours need a good sized storm system to chase them away and since we live in a desert, they stick around way longer than they are welcome. |
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 20, 2014 1:38:42 GMT
It is the stupid weather situation in which the rest of the state is warm, but the area over me is 30 degrees colder.
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stittsygirl
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Post by stittsygirl on Nov 20, 2014 1:41:46 GMT
Born and raised in Utah. Yep! I don't miss them.
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Post by AussieMeg on Nov 20, 2014 3:08:40 GMT
No idea, I've never heard of inversion in relation to weather. But I don't like the sound of it at all!
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Gennifer
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Post by Gennifer on Nov 20, 2014 4:25:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 4:29:25 GMT
Yes. They happen frequently here. We had one last year that lasted about a month and actually caused its own snow flurries. It would warm up enough during the day for things to melt and evaporate but then the moisture would hit the cold air and fall back to the ground as snow. We get them in the summer too but usually just when the forest fires are bad. It traps a lot of the smoke in the valley here. My poor DS is just miserable when that happens.
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Post by chaosisapony on Nov 20, 2014 4:59:26 GMT
No idea in Northern California.
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Post by red88 on Nov 20, 2014 5:54:49 GMT
HA, yes, I do know. And I hate it every time I drive into SLC. Luckily, where I live in the mountains, we don't have it. We are almost always warmer than SLC during clear winter days, we get less snow, and we are cooler in the summer. You can come visit me, if you'd like. I think we might be from the same place! I grew up in the mountains east of SLC & I understand the drive into the inversion of SLC, awful. We passed through there 2 years ago on our move to the NW & the smell was disgusting! I think I'll only go back to visit in the summer  |
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daisymae
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Post by daisymae on Nov 20, 2014 7:04:07 GMT
Great picture Gennifer. Mount Olympus is my view from my back deck, bedroom, kitchen, and dining room. Gorgeous, winter summer, spring and fall.
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