Weather forcast for the next few months = La Nina? maybe

[Westbranch]

Sep 8, 2016 - Winter weather predictions for the 2016-2017 snow season have ranged, but the latest official report from NOAA is that La Niña is unlikely to affect North America this winter.

Ya Right!

https://pageshot.net/gKj2Zn1Vppqe4mKc/weather.gc.ca

[CDN-VT]

WHATS THE yellow thing

[Westbranch]

Hmmm I think it is going to be a 15 minute showing of ,....er.... Sunshine, like today...

[russ_drinkwater]

So whats the go?
Are you fellas getting some rain or what?
Been terribly dry here in australia in our area.
Supposed to be the wettest year since records began, but we have only had 15 inches of rain for the year!
Coming to la nina cycle here, supposedly.

[Westbranch]

Locally we have had rain in the interior, East of the Coast Mountain range, not all that wet yet, normally we would have had some snow by now and hard frosts, we had thundershower like down pours and only a -1*C  frost, Nov hopefully will be nearer normal with a good bit of snow so we can use the quad with tracks... 

Where VT lives, west of the Coast Range,   has had some of the longest rain periods on record, 30 of 31 days , so says the Meteorological people.

[CDN-VT]

I agree , We folk have web feet , green moss on the cars joints & buildings. Harvest is the worst I've seen in .
I trenched in a few 1000 feet of 6" drain pipe to relive the pooling I had last year.
So far It's wet but our ranch is draining & I visit many farms & ranches that are having the livestock punching the pasture into mud. Im measuring the water in the exit piping to see how much Im diverting & next year comes the water wheel .

VT

Quack

[russ_drinkwater]

I bet when you get the water wheel up it will stop raining!

[niel]

from what i've seen, you guys will be getting your winter weather real soon-like, like next week.

[Powerplay]

Here in the tall grass prairie,  I'm not saying exactly where since it's the good 'ol internet,  I'm hoping we stay over -10C this winter.  Then I can concentrate on planning heat related countermeasures for next summer.  The weather has been so nice lately I've been getting things done that I had originally planned for next spring.  I was standing there in the middle of November in short sleeves installing all my new fuses and converting the whole system to 48V.  I might even undertake upgrading the firmware in my classics if the weather continues to hold.  And we're getting a lot of sun, unbelievable.   

[CDN-VT]

I worked all day on the Woodmizer to finish the few logs .
I was soaked in full rain gear .. I needed to finish the pile .
Stumps all gone on the last 4 day fire we had with the 200EX loaded .

20' 2x6 times 50 unit's  ready to be stacked / in the drying area

VT

[Powerplay]

Nice weather again.  I upgraded both Classic 150s firmware to Classic 2096/Net 2097.  I'd originally thought of trying the update with Wine/Ubuntu on my little mini-note.  But in the end, I remembered I had left Windows 10.1 installed as a dual boot on my wife's laptop after I put Ubuntu on there as her main system.  The pack rat in me wouldn't allow just deleting Win 10.1 that came with the system and it payed off since the upgrade from Win. 10.1 on the laptop went like clock work.  (Believe it or not)  But after the update her computer was unavailable for about an hour as Windows went into the inevitable automatic update cycle.     

No more network dropouts as we should be on the Long Count calendar now rather than a dropout every 9.6 Bactun.   

[niel]

"I might even undertake upgrading the firmware in my classics if the weather continues to hold."

i'm glad you got the time and install went well, but i didn't know it was weather dependent.

being a smart ash aside, what is the .1 in 10.1? i know that win 8 had the .1 because of the start button and such as i have 8.1. ftr, i tried win 10 and hated it.

[Powerplay]

but i didn't know it was weather dependent.

Right right.   But there is no heat out there and I get really fumbly fingered standing in the cold.  Not to mention there were no X-class solar flares at the time.

i tried win 10 and hated it.

I'm not exactly the ambassador for Windows either.  I think the .1 release changes the interminable slowness and phone orientation of the Win OS 10 over to a barely tolerable slow speed and slightly less resource waste.      How did that sound?  It actually does seem to boot and run faster in my observation (based on rare usage).

[niel]

sounds like rhetoric to me, but what do i know? it may not be the os slowing things down either. i have my machine boot up and ready to browse in less than a minute from turn on. the machine has to have abilities or it will bog down.

[TomW]

sounds like rhetoric to me, but what do i know? it may not be the os slowing things down either. i have my machine boot up and ready to browse in less than a minute from turn on. the machine has to have abilities or it will bog down.

We recently upgraded our 10+ year old and failing PC laptops.

My fresh Macbook Pro literally boots to a login prompt in 10 or 11 seconds from powered off with OS X Yosemite [I think]. Macs used to seem to take forever to boot.

This one  has a solid state drive so no mechanical stuff to slow it down reading the drive.

Not sure if they use some trick to hold the previous state on the "drive" to speed booting? I usually just shut the lid and let it snooze between uses and wakeup to login prompt is instant.