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Post by Dave on Jan 11, 2018 1:16:22 GMT
I saw a tweet from a weather girl yesterday that commented that the weather is grey, cloudy and rainy in LA. I guess that is unusual. Perhaps Hayley brought the weather with her... I know this is the rainy season in southern California. With all of the scorched land from the fires, that area is seeing landslides. I hope Hayley will give us an update! Yes indeed Joe, and I see they had 35 mm of rain (1.4 inches) at Los Angeles International on Monday-Tuesday, that would be very wet even for London! Part of the airport was flooded and as you say, 75 miles away near Santa Barbara they have shocking mudslides from the same storm system with 100 homes destroyed and at least 17 deaths. It's a tragic situation and just demonstrates how vulnerable we can all be to mother nature. Dave
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Post by Libby on Jan 11, 2018 2:33:43 GMT
I saw a tweet from a weather girl yesterday that commented that the weather is grey, cloudy and rainy in LA. I guess that is unusual. Perhaps Hayley brought the weather with her... Not so unusual, since there's a song all about it (see below). It never rains, but it pours. It certainly pours in Seattle, but it also drips, sprinkles, drizzles, and showers. We certainly get landslides; we had a really bad one a few years ago where hundreds of people were killed and homes were destroyed, near Darrington, WA (north of Seattle). But, for as often as it does rain in Seattle, we don't get a bad landslide every time (that would be every week, minus the summertime). And we do get wildfires east of the Cascade mountains.
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Post by Libby on Jan 11, 2018 3:45:12 GMT
I know this is the rainy season in southern California. With all of the scorched land from the fires, that area is seeing landslides. I hope Hayley will give us an update! Yes indeed Joe, and I see they had 35 mm of rain (1.4 inches) at Los Angeles International on Monday-Tuesday, that would be very wet even for London! Part of the airport was flooded and as you say, 75 miles away near Santa Barbara they have shocking mudslides from the same storm system with 100 homes destroyed and at least 17 deaths. It's a tragic situation and just demonstrates how vulnerable we can all be to mother nature. Dave And also for Seattle. Surprisingly enough, Seattle does not have the highest average rainfall per year in the US; not even by a longshot! I just looked at the list of average annual rainfall for cities around the US; get this, there are 31 cities that get a higher average than Seattle does (at 37")! Portland's is higher at 43+, but New York was at 49+! The highest were Louisiana & Florida (62 & 61). California's numbers were very low, of course. Las Vegas was lowest, at 4.2". It may rain a lot, but in general, it doesn't come in huge storms like it does down south and on the east coast. Take today. It rained, but when I was outside, it wasn't more than a few drips. I'd take that over a hurricane or tropical storm any day!
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Post by Dave on Jan 11, 2018 16:48:48 GMT
Yes indeed Joe, and I see they had 35 mm of rain (1.4 inches) at Los Angeles International on Monday-Tuesday, that would be very wet even for London! Part of the airport was flooded and as you say, 75 miles away near Santa Barbara they have shocking mudslides from the same storm system with 100 homes destroyed and at least 17 deaths. It's a tragic situation and just demonstrates how vulnerable we can all be to mother nature. Dave And also for Seattle. Surprisingly enough, Seattle does not have the highest average rainfall per year in the US; not even by a longshot! I just looked at the list of average annual rainfall for cities around the US; get this, there are 31 cities that get a higher average than Seattle does (at 37")! Portland's is higher at 43+, but New York was at 49+! The highest were Louisiana & Florida (62 & 61). California's numbers were very low, of course. Las Vegas was lowest, at 4.2". It may rain a lot, but in general, it doesn't come in huge storms like it does down south and on the east coast. Take today. It rained, but when I was outside, it wasn't more than a few drips. I'd take that over a hurricane or tropical storm any day! Exactly! No hurricanes over here either, though Hurricane Ophelia last October got way too close for comfort, and managed to suck up Sahara Desert dust and forest fire smoke from Portugal to turn the Sky red! Where I live, 70 miles SW of London, we had 33 inches of rain last year and the wettest day was 1.1 inches back in August. Not too bad really. Dave
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Post by Ross on Jan 11, 2018 20:48:47 GMT
We are getting the remains of tropical cyclones in New Zealand. Had about 60mm of rain in Christchurch.
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Post by martindn on Jan 12, 2018 11:42:12 GMT
And also for Seattle. Surprisingly enough, Seattle does not have the highest average rainfall per year in the US; not even by a longshot! I just looked at the list of average annual rainfall for cities around the US; get this, there are 31 cities that get a higher average than Seattle does (at 37")! Portland's is higher at 43+, but New York was at 49+! The highest were Louisiana & Florida (62 & 61). California's numbers were very low, of course. Las Vegas was lowest, at 4.2". It may rain a lot, but in general, it doesn't come in huge storms like it does down south and on the east coast. Take today. It rained, but when I was outside, it wasn't more than a few drips. I'd take that over a hurricane or tropical storm any day! Exactly! No hurricanes over here either, though Hurricane Ophelia last October got way too close for comfort, and managed to suck up Sahara Desert dust and forest fire smoke from Portugal to turn the Sky red! Where I live, 70 miles SW of London, we had 33 inches of rain last year and the wettest day was 1.1 inches back in August. Not too bad really. Dave 647.2mm here in Leicester, 100 miles north of London. that works out at 25.4 inches. Interesting coincidence that 25.4 is also the conversion factor between inches and mm! My wettest day was 25th September with 25.1mm (about an inch). September, unusually, was my wettest moth in 2017, with 102.1mm (4 inches). Martin D
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Post by Martin on Jan 12, 2018 12:02:12 GMT
Whilst it is quiet on the Hayley news and activity front we could rename the forum as the Historical Weather International forum.
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Post by comet on Jan 12, 2018 13:05:08 GMT
and it didn't bother me a bit to see millimetres, inches and miles all in one sentence, and that's my tuppence worth, or should that be thruppence or a tanner to include inflation.
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Post by frenchie on Jan 12, 2018 14:43:54 GMT
Yes indeed Joe, and I see they had 35 mm of rain (1.4 inches) at Los Angeles International on Monday-Tuesday, that would be very wet even for London! Part of the airport was flooded and as you say, 75 miles away near Santa Barbara they have shocking mudslides from the same storm system with 100 homes destroyed and at least 17 deaths. It's a tragic situation and just demonstrates how vulnerable we can all be to mother nature. Dave And also for Seattle. Surprisingly enough, Seattle does not have the highest average rainfall per year in the US; not even by a longshot! I just looked at the list of average annual rainfall for cities around the US; get this, there are 31 cities that get a higher average than Seattle does (at 37")! Portland's is higher at 43+, but New York was at 49+! The highest were Louisiana & Florida (62 & 61). California's numbers were very low, of course. Las Vegas was lowest, at 4.2". It may rain a lot, but in general, it doesn't come in huge storms like it does down south and on the east coast. Take today. It rained, but when I was outside, it wasn't more than a few drips. I'd take that over a hurricane or tropical storm any day! You're talking about MY weather there! Hurricanes, tropical storms, afternoon thunderstorms from June to August, 100% humidity in the summers, 2/3 ice/snow storms in the winter. Good stuff! You got to adventure down to the good Ol' South sometime. I don't think I could handle your weather though. It always looking like it's about to rain, but just sprinkles or overcast. No thank you! Down here, we have our yucky days and it rains and it rains. Then we get a couple days/week where it's sunshine and beautiful...and hot! But I could not handle a constant state of dreariness. Sorry. I like seeing Mr. Sun. And by the way (what I could find out), LA and FL are the highest states in rainfall for continental USA. Hawaii tops all the lists if you include *all* 50 states, which makes sense cause it has the rain forests.
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Post by Libby on Jan 13, 2018 6:54:16 GMT
LOL that's totally understandable. I can't say I love the dreary weather, either, but of course I'm used to it. But I'd like my house to stay ABOVE water, thanks, so no thanks to the danger of a hurricane, every single year! Or a tornado, for that matter. The only natural disasters we really have to worry about are earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis... which could possibly happen at the same time (think Japan 7 yrs. ago!). While those things could be worse than a hurricane once they happen, that sort of thing doesn't happen all that often. The experts have been saying that it's "When, not if", about a huge earthquake. But, they've been saying it for YEARS. So, it'll probably happen sometime, and everyone should try to be prepared (although I think we on the west coast are more worried about catastrophic man-made disasters at the moment from across the waters...).
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Post by John H on Jan 13, 2018 10:31:55 GMT
Frank Lin has just posted a lovely compilation of Hayley's socia media posts from 2017
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Post by Libby on Jan 13, 2018 23:45:28 GMT
Hayley appears in 3, wait 4 (just posted a few minutes ago) of Viktoria's stories (from today): www.instagram.com/stories/viktoriahansenofficial/I'm not positive, but it might be Griffith Park or Hollywood Hills... Viktoria frequently goes jogging/hiking up at Griffith. And, since they are back in Venice at the Butcher's Daughter restaurant, I would assume it wasn't terribly far away, which Griffith Park isn't. If anyone could capture the videos or just the stills as usual, that would be great (can you view the stories if you're not following the person?) I kept going back to Viktoria's stories, because you can't process much in that tiny amount of time that it races through the story (I really hate when people post huge long messages there, and you're supposed to be able to read it in time for it to switch to the next thing. But anyway, everytime I would go back, it would start from somewhere different (though it was the same ones, just starting randomly. Also, some of them seem to get stuck. I kept encountering that with the first one from today, the "Roadtrip" one. I do think that was the end of the story, it just wouldn't continue on to the next one until I clicked the arrow. And a couple of times it just sat there loading. No, I am still not a big fan of stories.
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Post by Joe on Jan 14, 2018 2:32:36 GMT
Hi Libby! Phew! Story 3 - roadtrip to the Griffith Park area or Hollywood Hills.BTW crookedking is Isaac Fox, a model possibly. There is a large sign there, something something Overlook. There is a Hollywood Bowl Overlook...also close by is Runyon Canyon. I recall Griffith Park is where an old zoo is located, along with the Hollywood Sign. Story 4 was filmed sideways but I righted it, more from the Hollywood Hills Story 6 is dinner Story 8 is Hayley with katt3ns who is Katrine Marie Fox (Steenberg)...any relation to Isaac Fox mentioned above?
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Post by Bamafan on Jan 14, 2018 3:01:32 GMT
Here are the three videos Hayley appears in. -Taylor
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Post by comet on Jan 14, 2018 14:41:09 GMT
looks like Hayley is having fun and the weather looks great...
Expecting polar airmass here in the next few days,, Brrrrrrrrrr..
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