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05-13-2010, 08:35 PM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Flying Cloud
1953 32' Liner
1955 22' Safari
Valley View
, Texas
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Plan for the weather
It is hail season, we have floods and its even snowing in mid May.
Here is a great tool for your morning check of the weather before you hit the road. Really aimed at Pilots...but, its great for all weather checkers. Put the cursor on your point of interest.
CWSU National METAR map - NOAA NWS
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05-13-2010, 09:33 PM
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Rivet Master
2005 25' Safari
Salem
, Oregon
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 8,377
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Hi, that's pretty neat, but it seems that all the weather is on the east side of the country. [according to the colored dots]
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"Le Petit Chateau Argent" Small Silver Castle
2000 Navigator / 2014 F-150 Eco-Boost / Equal-i-zer / P-3
YAMAHA 2400 / AIR #12144
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05-13-2010, 10:07 PM
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1972 Travelux Princess 25
Cobourg
, Ontario
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Ya the weather sucks but at least we don't have to stay home til the volcano season blows over LOL.
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05-14-2010, 04:40 AM
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4 Rivet Member
1971 27' Overlander
Antlers
, Oklahoma
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 426
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Like it - Thanks - There was another web site listed for NOAA - I had to redo the OS on my computer and lost the link - anybody knows what it is?
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2006 GMC 1500 SLE Crew Cab
5.3L V8 Towing Package
Equal-i-zer E2
AIR # 40365
TAC # OK-3
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05-14-2010, 07:09 AM
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Rivet Master
1970 27' Overlander
Espanola
, Full Timer
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,753
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We have been 'biting our nails' watching hail storms prance around us drifting north. Nothing has hit yet save for about a minute of pea sized hail two days ago. Be glad when this month is over. You know I have heard from missionaries that as time goes by that weather would become more extreme in all catigories. They mentioned hail stones the size of footballs and pumpkins. We are in the southwest corner of Oklahoma...Melody you are closer to Tulsa and sure hope you got all your babies covered and protected while we go through this...thanks for the chart...
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05-14-2010, 07:28 AM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Flying Cloud
1953 32' Liner
1955 22' Safari
Valley View
, Texas
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,971
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Miserable storms
Here is the other NOAA site.
NOAAWatch: NOAA's All-Hazard Monitor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce
Redhawker....I thought you were up by Enid. However, SW Oklahoma is no picnic this week either. Hail shown on the news last night from OKC was really about 4 inches in diameter. It left craters in the ground when it hit. Imagine an Airstream. I hope everyone is OK. I have seen hail in Lubbock, Texas , irregularly shaped and ragged, about like dinner plates. I am south of Ardmore, OK (20 miles south of the Red River in Texas) watching the hail storms along the river this morning.
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05-14-2010, 09:39 AM
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Rivet Master
1969 23' Safari
New Orleans
, Louisiana
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 699
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cool tool, thanks M.R.! dew points rule my emotional life....
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05-14-2010, 06:42 PM
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3 Rivet Member
1999 23' Safari
Austin
, Texas
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 230
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Awesome! Thanks
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05-14-2010, 08:19 PM
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More than one rivet loose
Currently Looking...
Los Alamos
, New Mexico
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,756
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I like it. Easy to get a route report.
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Sarah, Snowball
Looking for a 1962 Flying Cloud
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05-16-2010, 04:33 AM
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3 Rivet Member
2011 23' FB Flying Cloud
Perry
, Florida
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 238
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I'm ignorant here,,, In Re: Fotochop's, "dew points rule my emotional life", can someone enlighten me as to the function of "dew point" I've got temperature and wind speed/direction down but don't understand either the dew point or the barometer.
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05-16-2010, 06:15 AM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Flying Cloud
1953 32' Liner
1955 22' Safari
Valley View
, Texas
Join Date: Jan 2006
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dew point
Two things I look at...
a high dew point means humidity. For many folks not used to that...it is miserable....plan for AC. After many years of living in Louisiana and Texas I can tolerate it better than you lucky guys in Colorado and Texas. High heat with low humidity...not so bad. High heat with high humidity....your probably in Louisiana.
If the temp and dew point are within 3 degrees of each other...you will probably have fog...especially if the wind is lightly blowing.
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05-16-2010, 12:06 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 25' Safari FB SE
St. Hedwig
, Texas
Join Date: Jul 2006
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This weather is really strange this year. Several days ago we left Independance, CA traveling norht on highway 395 and got a far as Bishop, CA. All the passes required "snow chains'. Had to turn around and retrace our route and come up through Bakersfield. Before departing Independance we had blowing snow each evening.
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05-23-2010, 11:41 AM
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Islay - 63 O.
1963 26' Overlander
Montreal
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 581
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I may add my new baby here... I launched a rv campground review website and on the page of each campground, you'll find the actual weather, I found it helpful to provide such info on the page instead of having to go to an external link
http://rvcampreview.com
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05-23-2010, 01:09 PM
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4 Rivet Member
1985 34' Limited
1960 24' Tradewind
Summerville
, South Carolina
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Very helpful link, thanks.
It is also useful to remember that hurricane season starts in about a week. Those of us in coastal environments spend half the year wondering "will this be the year we get hammered with a hurricane?" Let's all hope for another peaceful year but be prepared otherwise just in case our number is up.
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05-23-2010, 10:55 PM
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2 Rivet Member
2006 23' Safari SE
Newport Beach
, California
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 35
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gaylejoe
This weather is really strange this year. Several days ago we left Independance, CA traveling norht on highway 395 and got a far as Bishop, CA. All the passes required "snow chains'. Had to turn around and retrace our route and come up through Bakersfield. Before departing Independance we had blowing snow each evening.
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We made it to Bishop at about 1:00 PM Sunday the 9th then headed west up to our campground "four jeffery" and were greeted with a 50 MPH headwind with snow ! This was only our 3rd trip out with our 23' Safari and I was a little nervous but the abient temp wasn't cold enough at 1:00 PM to make the road slipperey so we made it the 10 miles to our camp.
Sunday and Monday night it snowed, temps down to 25 degrees but I did my homework and had empty black and gray tanks and drained the fresh water as well as pumping all the water out of the plumbing. Tuesday night it cleared up and the rest of the week was perfect, great fishing, Chris and I both catching an Alpers lunker trout !
We had planned to head up to June lake on Sunday the 16th but were turned around just like you were, a severe weather alert, so we came home early and drove out to Vegas for e few days to get some sunny weather !
Heres a picture of Sunday after dropping the trailer while it snowed, then another pic when the sun came out ! It was worth waiting for the sun...
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