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Post by OptimusPrime on Jul 15, 2011 15:28:18 GMT -5
85 and sunny in Buffalo which when adjusted to Phoenix equals 211 degrees. ;D I guess the "official" term for the mammoth dust storm we had is a "haboob". Lived in AZ 50 of my 55 years and have never heard that word before. Now I try to use it 2-3 times a day. "This ice cream is haboobalicious". The word cracks me up. Sounds Arabic... "they" have about million dust storms a day so I am guessing the name has an Arabic Genesis
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Post by azvb on Jul 15, 2011 20:56:17 GMT -5
;D I guess the "official" term for the mammoth dust storm we had is a "haboob". Lived in AZ 50 of my 55 years and have never heard that word before. Now I try to use it 2-3 times a day. "This ice cream is haboobalicious". The word cracks me up. Sounds Arabic... "they" have about million dust storms a day so I am guessing the name has an Arabic Genesis You are correct. These huge storms mostly happen in the Arab deserts, but also in the North American deserts. Not sure how big they have to be to be an official "haboob" - at least a "D" cup, I guess.
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Post by BearClause on Jul 15, 2011 23:05:55 GMT -5
Sounds Arabic... "they" have about million dust storms a day so I am guessing the name has an Arabic Genesis You are correct. These huge storms mostly happen in the Arab deserts, but also in the North American deserts. Not sure how big they have to be to be an official "haboob" - at least a "D" cup, I guess. Probably not as strange as a tropical storm in Arizona. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Nora_(1997)I remember this one. I was trying to explain this to a consultant at my workplace, who was from Florida. He had a hard time believing that a tropical storm could somehow make it to a desert area like Southern Arizona. I heard that this storm caused a lot of flash floods, as some places were getting well over their annual precipitation averages in a single day.
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Post by azvb on Jul 16, 2011 10:14:03 GMT -5
You are correct. These huge storms mostly happen in the Arab deserts, but also in the North American deserts. Not sure how big they have to be to be an official "haboob" - at least a "D" cup, I guess. Probably not as strange as a tropical storm in Arizona. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Nora_(1997)I remember this one. I was trying to explain this to a consultant at my workplace, who was from Florida. He had a hard time believing that a tropical storm could somehow make it to a desert area like Southern Arizona. I heard that this storm caused a lot of flash floods, as some places were getting well over their annual precipitation averages in a single day. I remember this, too, but can't believe is was in '97. Wow, I'm getting old.
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Post by baywatcher on Jul 17, 2011 10:18:43 GMT -5
Driving through the desert west of Tucson, I believe, and the road undulates frequently. Warnings that if it rains hard enough, the low points would be flooded. A lot of warnings, so I guess they don't bother to bridge the dormant "creeks", just let the oblivious be washed away.
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Post by rhinovb14 on Jul 18, 2011 7:27:08 GMT -5
90 and sunny this week and very humid. Not going to complain but that is hoooooottttt for us Buffalonians. Could be worse I guess....the midwest is baking.
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Post by azvb on Jul 18, 2011 9:16:04 GMT -5
Driving through the desert west of Tucson, I believe, and the road undulates frequently. Warnings that if it rains hard enough, the low points would be flooded. A lot of warnings, so I guess they don't bother to bridge the dormant "creeks", just let the oblivious be washed away. I don't know about Tucson, but here in the Phoenix area we have a law called "The Stupid Motorist Law" (that is really the name), that makes the driver pay cost of the emergency personsel that come rescue them from their cars AND imposes a major fine for those who choose to "chance" a flooded wash. 95% of the time these people drive AROUND baracades trying to save 10 minutes by going through a wash rather than a bridged road.
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Post by azvb on Jul 18, 2011 9:18:12 GMT -5
90 and sunny this week and very humid. Not going to complain but that is hoooooottttt for us Buffalonians. Could be worse I guess....the midwest is baking. Yuk. Yes, midwest is in for a scorching week.
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Post by rhinovb14 on Jul 20, 2011 7:00:21 GMT -5
Going to be 95 and humid in Buffalo tomorrow. No AC was a bad a bad choice.
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Post by Mocha on Jul 20, 2011 15:10:55 GMT -5
Summer has yet to arrive in Seattle, gotta wear a jacket in the morning.
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Post by azvb on Jul 21, 2011 11:37:24 GMT -5
Summer has yet to arrive in Seattle, gotta wear a jacket in the morning. Rub it in, whydontcha. My cousin, who lives in Snoqualmie WA, is in Iowa for 2 weeks visiting her in-laws. She said she has never been so miserable in her life (and she grew up in Arizona). But she said she is coping because she was sick of the cold and rain back home.
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