Interesting weather fact.
We're visiting family in Ontario, and like the rest of the continental NE, the weather is unseasonably warm. This morning at 730am, the temp was 15C. I just happened to click on Mazatlan's figure, and...
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Day before yesterday, temperature downtown Mulege, BCS, was forty seven degrees Fahrenheit at 0600. Home on the coast in Michoacan, has been averaging 88F around 3PM and 77F before dawn.
I remember, at La Manzanilla, Jalisco the first week in February 1997 being so warm I lay atop the sheets with the ceiling fan going full blast, windows wide open. The next year to the week, the manager supplied me with three extra blankets for my bed, windows shut tight.
Boca de Iguanas, Feb 2003, standing around a beach campfire at 8PM. This trip I couldn't stand it, I brought a mercury thermometer. Forty eight degrees F. I used a heater.
From Manzanillo south to Tapachula, winter weather is far and away more predictable, especially from Michoacan/Colima.
!982 I was walking the beach on Isla Mujeres, Q.R. in a raincoat at 2PM. Temperature was 56F in a driving rainstorm. Winds to about 35 mph. The whitelegs were screaming their fool head off. "Gawww Damm! Ah paid (xxx dollars) for three days of this?". Wotta hoot, the heat pumps in all the five-star hotels, worked superb for air con, but not worth a **** for heating. The sniping and griping was so pervasive it drove me off the island, and across Mexico to Acapulco. Temp was in the 80's.
Or Creel December 2003. Fifteen degrees with half a foot of snow on the ground. No way was I going to ride a BUS down into the canyon to Batopilas.
Cd Obregon, July 1987, 122F. Sonoyta August 2010 also 122F. That trip at five minutes after midnight, the temp was 102F in Laughlin, Nevada.
I started a caterpillar bulldozer on the Twin Lakes Road, near Bridgeport, CA in December of 1983. Took three hours, one 6KW generator, running four block heaters, and four kerosene 50,000 BTU horizontal heaters. The temp was 29F. MINUS.
The very coldest I ever experienced on the coast of Michoacan was 64F in April of 2006. The gente were begging for blankets. The girls had my 4" thick comforter and they were wrapped up in it like a Cuban cigar. Jesus and Brenda showered using my hot water heater for a week.
Nothing surprises me any longer. Not 69F driving rainstorms in Michoacan, or morning ice on the windshield in San Cristobal de Las Casas.
Regarding my remark about the southern, Pacific coast being "reliably warm". Sometimes it gets carried away with itself and tourists find themselves enduring 92F - 80F days in January.
Regardless, this is my home, and being prepared for any kind of weather makes it enjoyable, regardless of Weather Porn, or Time Share Weather Paradise Speak.
EDIT WEATHER PORN EDIT WEATHER PORN EDIT WEATHER PORN
(A cut & Paste Newspaper Article) WARNING GRAPHIC USELESS DETAILS!
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Some readers have complained about my article yesterday re the snowstorm in Mexico, saying snowfall is “normal” in Chihuahua at this time of year.
But I’m thinking that the biggest snow storm in 55 years is not exactly normal. Besides, isn’t snowfall supposed to be a thing of the past?
29 Dec 2015 – Some roads remained closed in northern Mexico on Monday after the biggest snow storm in more than half a century blanketed parts of the region, authorities said.
The storm dumped up to 30 cm (12 inches) of snow on 32 towns across the state, closed 17 roads, and forced closure of the Ciudad Juarez airport.
“It’s the most intense snowfall in the last 55 years,” Efren Matamoros, the civil protection director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, told AFP.
Meanwhile, temperatures plummeted to minus-18 Celsius (zero Fahrenheit).
Day before yesterday, temperature downtown Mulege, BCS, was forty seven degrees Fahrenheit at 0600. Home on the coast in Michoacan, has been averaging 88F around 3PM and 77F before dawn.
I remember, at La Manzanilla, Jalisco the first week in February 1997 being so warm I lay atop the sheets with the ceiling fan going full blast, windows wide open. The next year to the week, the manager supplied me with three extra blankets for my bed, windows shut tight.
Boca de Iguanas, Feb 2003, standing around a beach campfire at 8PM. This trip I couldn't stand it, I brought a mercury thermometer. Forty eight degrees F. I used a heater.
From Manzanillo south to Tapachula, winter weather is far and away more predictable, especially from Michoacan/Colima.
!982 I was walking the beach on Isla Mujeres, Q.R. in a raincoat at 2PM. Temperature was 56F in a driving rainstorm. Winds to about 35 mph. The whitelegs were screaming their fool head off. "Gawww Damm! Ah paid (xxx dollars) for three days of this?". Wotta hoot, the heat pumps in all the five-star hotels, worked superb for air con, but not worth a **** for heating. The sniping and griping was so pervasive it drove me off the island, and across Mexico to Acapulco. Temp was in the 80's.
Or Creel December 2003. Fifteen degrees with half a foot of snow on the ground. No way was I going to ride a BUS down into the canyon to Batopilas.
Cd Obregon, July 1987, 122F. Sonoyta August 2010 also 122F. That trip at five minutes after midnight, the temp was 102F in Laughlin, Nevada.
I started a caterpillar bulldozer on the Twin Lakes Road, near Bridgeport, CA in December of 1983. Took three hours, one 6KW generator, running four block heaters, and four kerosene 50,000 BTU horizontal heaters. The temp was 29F. MINUS.
The very coldest I ever experienced on the coast of Michoacan was 64F in April of 2006. The gente were begging for blankets. The girls had my 4" thick comforter and they were wrapped up in it like a Cuban cigar. Jesus and Brenda showered using my hot water heater for a week.
Nothing surprises me any longer. Not 69F driving rainstorms in Michoacan, or morning ice on the windshield in San Cristobal de Las Casas.
Regarding my remark about the southern, Pacific coast being "reliably warm". Sometimes it gets carried away with itself and tourists find themselves enduring 92F - 80F days in January.
Regardless, this is my home, and being prepared for any kind of weather makes it enjoyable, regardless of Weather Porn, or Time Share Weather Paradise Speak.
EDIT WEATHER PORN EDIT WEATHER PORN EDIT WEATHER PORN
(A cut & Paste Newspaper Article) WARNING GRAPHIC USELESS DETAILS!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some readers have complained about my article yesterday re the snowstorm in Mexico, saying snowfall is “normal” in Chihuahua at this time of year.
But I’m thinking that the biggest snow storm in 55 years is not exactly normal. Besides, isn’t snowfall supposed to be a thing of the past?
29 Dec 2015 – Some roads remained closed in northern Mexico on Monday after the biggest snow storm in more than half a century blanketed parts of the region, authorities said.
The storm dumped up to 30 cm (12 inches) of snow on 32 towns across the state, closed 17 roads, and forced closure of the Ciudad Juarez airport.
“It’s the most intense snowfall in the last 55 years,” Efren Matamoros, the civil protection director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, told AFP.
Meanwhile, temperatures plummeted to minus-18 Celsius (zero Fahrenheit).
