Year Of Weather Extremes

[Deep C]

January 1st it started. Coldest winter on record for south Florida... We had like ten freezes and thirty more nights below 40 degrees. April in the Chub Cay pocket was the coldest I had seen where we had to dig hard to find 73 degree water...
I read endless accounts about the snow up north at record levels...
Then down here in early May it turned around the other way... By mid month we had days that usually don't break 90 hitting 97 or 98 for weeks in a row. Not a puff of wind... Water surface temp already at late August type 87 degrees...
Now we are a full week of 25 kt junk that wont let up and looks to stay this way at a time of year where 10 knots is usually a peak gust...

Wondering what extremes you guys elsewhere have been seeing...

[Doin'It]

in Arizona we made it until the end of June before it really got HOT. I've seen many years when 100° temperatures were reached in March, this makes for a very LONG summer of intense heat, this year hopefully only 3 months of above 100°. Also we had a very wet spring, lots of snowpack in the High Country. The lakes we depend on for our water supply are full, hasn't been this way for several years. That's what it like out west.

[Robja]

Kinda same up this way too Paul. We had a very cold winter with several snows in central NC. Then it seemed to jump straight to summer. We have hit triple digits for most of the week and very spotty showers. I think June will be the hottest on record. Down at the beach(Southport) the water temp rose pretty quick. We usually don't have 83 degree water on the beach till Mid july. Last weekend down there it was like bath water. This warm water temps tend to bode to the bad side for hurricanes.

[Deep C]

Yeah... Thats kinda what I was gettin at. when we decided to keep the boat south this year the water was far cooler than normal... Figured "the season" wouldn't be an issue. Now already the water here is honest to goodness "fuel" if one came calling.
The wind we have here is a pressure gradient of high squuezed up against that tropical blob hundreds of miles away. We're headed back Monday wind or no wind... Bimini is no place to sit, exposed if something was to pop up...
Canyongear tim comming over so I have that safety edge crossing. If something went wrong and I had to go down in engine room he can keep it down sea at least instead of me being alone in the trough...

[Wireman]

If something went wrong and I had to go down in engine room he can keep it down sea at least instead of me being alone in the trough...

No autopilot on that fancy rig?

[Deep C]

Not that it has anything to do with weather... If I pull back on the sticks she won't track on it... Everything I do on this boat is safety first oriented... We've been over here for three months with no major busted stuff or injuries and screwing it up on this last leg... I don't own this rig and she gets the respect the owner deserves...

Besides it gives me another shot at watching Tim melt down on another blue one...

Wind is kinda dropping out as I type this would be a nice solo ride right now but air ticket alrready purchased...

[Deep C]

Close to a month later... Tim came and indeed got melted down by an even bigger blue than his last...

Anyway found a window to cross. Got home and it was the usual after noon thunderboomers for a few days... These ones were about wet as can be filling five gallon buckets in just hours...

Slid up to Jersey for a quick visit and took notice that the thermometer in my car read 100 or more the whole way. Didn't see any rain til the day I left.

Then like somebody threw a switch down here the rain quit and we have had weeks of solid 20-25 knot wind and hot dry crap... Again a new thing I havn't seen before. July almost without fail is a "get out in morning cause its gonna rain in afternoon" thing... Just don't get it...

[longfisher]

But when the Tropical Storms come we get 10 inches in 6 hours.

Very unstable.

Predicted by the theory of global warming.

LongFisher

[Deep C]

Well we got Bonnie going through right now. Partly cloudy. Same breeze that we had all week. No rain here but a light spray to our south...

I'm not one to subscribe to any of that global warming crap. Considering a single belch from a volcano puts out more gasses , cfcs, CO2, H2SO4, CO, etc, and particulates in a day than man has produced in history its flat out arrogant to think "we" , a few billion fleas on this planets back can "alter everything".