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20 here in Pittsburgh.

Official Temp 30.9c.
My thermometer on the table in the sun was showing between 50 and 51C.
That is the temp people go out in when not hiding in an instrument shelter.

I hear thunder....

pommystuart wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:04 am Official Temp 30.9c.
My thermometer on the table in the sun was showing between 50 and 51C.
That is the temp people go out in when not hiding in an instrument shelter.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Temperatures

Oct 19, 2020, Monday
High	58
Normal high	62
Record high	82 (1963)
Low	51
Normal low	42
Record low	26 (1972)
Oct 20, 2020, Tuesday
High	59
Normal high	61
Record high	81 (1920)
Low	55
Normal low	42
Record low	20 (1972)
Oct 21, 2020, Wednesday
High	73
Normal high	61
Record high	82 (1949)
Low	53
Normal low	41
Record low	23 (1952)
Oct 22, 2020, Thursday
High	79
Normal high	61
Record high	84 (1947)
Low	56
Normal low	41
Record low	29 (1997)
Oct 23, 2020, Friday
High	77
Normal high	60
Record high	82 (1947)
Low	55
Normal low	41
Record low	25 (1997)
Oct 24, 2020, Saturday
High	63
Normal high	60
Record high	81 (1963)
Low	45
Normal low	41
Record low	21 (1969)
Oct 25, 2020, Sunday
High	52
Normal high	60
Record high	82 (2012)
Low	39
Normal low	40
Record low	26 (1965)

The prevailing issue here is Southern California is smoke. Over 100,000 evacuated last night. Might be sunny if not for that. Very cool nights and hazy daytime. Time changes here on Saturday night from Pacific Daylight (savings) time to Pacific Standard Time - Clocks "Fall Back" one hour. I hate when the ship goes back and forth across the time zone line; it takes very little to confuse my transcriptions.
Fair weather All,
Morgan

You and me both!!! It would be easier if they stayed on GMT. I looked at he Air Quality for Long Beach. Makes me wonder why I bought L.A. I hope the air in your house isn't too smoky.

Washington state has approved a law to keep the state on daylight saving time year round. However, it has to be approved by the U.S. Congress and they don't seem to be interested in even looking at it. I believe a few other states have passed similar laws, but they also need approval from Congress.

Last year British Columbia passed a law to keep us on PDT, but they may be waiting for Washington, Oregon and California to switch, too. I'm not sure where what will happen on the weekend. They had an informal online referendum and about 100,000 people voted to stay on PDT and a few thousand voted to change back and forth.

Very windy today!

Windy here, 13 C. Back to Pacific Standard Time. The Premier didn't have the guts to be on a different time zone than our neighbours to the south. The Yukon stayed on daylight time.

We went back to standard time too.

Well, the clocks in California are on standard time, but everyone (including and especially the dogs) still want to eat on daylight time! Current temp 24C very slight wind. We've not had official rain since last spring- it better hold off 1 more week while I get my new roof.
Stay Well All,
Morgan

Stay dry, at least until your roof is on.

Just got to the end of 5 days of weather warnings for heavy rain and a couple of flood alerts. It is still raining at the moment, just not very heavily . Wish we could send some over to the places with drought and/or fires (but not until the roof is fixed!)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Temperatures (F)

Oct 26, Monday
High	55
Normal high	59
Low	46
Normal low	40
Oct 27, Tuesday
High	51
Normal high	59
Low	45
Normal low	40
Oct 28, Wednesday
High	52
Normal high	59
Low	47
Normal low	40
Oct 29, Thursday
High	50
Normal high	58
Low	46
Normal low	39
Oct 30, Friday
High	45
Normal high	58
Low	41
Normal low	39
Oct 31, Saturday
High	49
Normal high	58
Low	27
Normal low	39
Nov 1, Sunday
High	54
Normal high	57
Low	37
Normal low	39

Precipitation (inches)

Oct 26	0.02
Oct 27	0
Oct 28	0.15
Oct 29	0.85
Oct 30	0.58
Oct 31	0
Nov 1	0.06
October total
Actual	3.29
Normal	2.29
Year to date total
Actual	33.84
Normal	32.30

2018 is Pittsburgh's wettest year on record with 57.83 inches and 2019 is the third wettest with 52.46 inches.
This year started out abnormally wet, but then we had a drought.

This is the total at our house since the beginning of the year:

779.2 mm 30.68 inches.

These are the annual record amounts:

University of Victoria (1993-2018): 2006 822.9 mm 32.40 inches.
Victoria International Airport (1941-2009): 1990 1138.4 mm 44.82 inches.

Long Beach CA has had 14.6 inches year to date. Actually more than normal of 11 1/2. We had over 6 inches in January- something we don't get that in a year. Rainy season to start soon.
Morgan

First winter storm of the season- all of you Northerly folks will laugh at me; 57/43 F today with wind gusting to 32 knots. Winterizing sensitive plants. I have a new respect for my crew on the Burton Island with straight wind that high. Got the weatherproofing part of the my roof on before the rain. Shingles should be on by Tuesday or Wednesday. YEA!

We had 43.7 mm in the past ten days, (1.72 inches). 22.4 mm fell on just one day. Normally, in this period, we'd get about 12 mm or 1/2 inch. Our maximum temperature in the period was 15.8 (60 F) and the minimum was -1.7 (29 F).

I hope your roof gets well and truly fixed soon. Few things are better than being warm and dry...