Dropping ALMOST 40 degrees today...

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78) 10/31/2019 at 11:02 • Filed to: weather

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I’m kind of a weather nerd and I think this is the only time I’ve ever seen us so close to a 40-degree differential in a single day (-38 degrees in about 12 hours). If you live at high altitudes and/or in the desert, 30+ degree differentials are not that uncommon. But it’s definitely surprising in a Gulf Coast climate. For comparison, winter and summer might be as little as 10 degrees, depending on humidity and cloud cover. 20 is more typical.

Today is one of those “Send your kids to school in a t-shirt, but put a parka in their backpack” types of days. If it weren’t for all the rain, trick or treating would be perfect weather.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 11:15

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Man, I remember days like this growing up in Birmingham seemed so strange due to rarity . Then I moved to Chicago where it’s still not a regular thing, but does seem to happen more.

Ash78, voting early and often > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) 10/31/2019 at 11:22

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Yep, or really anywhere in the Midwest where you can go from a Gulf system to an Arctic system in one day, depending on the jet stream, etc.

Reminds me of traveling to the Rockies during spring or fall. You have to take all your clothes.

Shift24 > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 11:28

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Yep supposed to snow here in ohio tonight 

Ash78, voting early and often > Shift24 10/31/2019 at 11:30

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Same big-ass system stretching precipitation from Monterrey, Mexico, all the way to Quebec City.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 11:31

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for some rea son I read that as ‘I dropped 40 po unds today’ I’m like holy shit dude, you should probably get that checked out.

Ash78, voting early and often > OPPOsaurus WRX 10/31/2019 at 11:38

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... USING THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!

fhrblig > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 11:39

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*laughs in Colorado*

Ash78, voting early and often > fhrblig 10/31/2019 at 11:45

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Colorado: If you don’t like the weather, go back to California™

Shift24 > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 11:53

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Damn I was just looking locally but it really does stretch that far

Aremmes > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 12:00

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We’ll get a similar swing in Philly tonight, however this sort of event is happens every year here.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 12:17

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Spearfish SD says “lol”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfish,_South_Dakota

https://www.weather.gov/unr/1943-01-22

As do Loma, MT (103F in 24 hours, January ‘72 ) and Denver (64 F, 18 hours, this year).

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 12:24

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Exactly. In fact, I seem to recall that not too long ago we had a drop of about 35 degrees then an increase of about 40 degrees all within 36 hours or so , with a thunderstorm mixed in. That was annoying, and strange.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Shift24 10/31/2019 at 12:28

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Not sure what it’ll mean for you, but in Chicago it wasn’t supposed to turn to snow until about noon today, and go into the evening. However, when I woke up at 8:30, it was already all snow. So it’s probably coming your way.

Shift24 > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) 10/31/2019 at 12:53

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Nice... lol people here forget how to drive in the rain let alone the snow. So tonight will be interesting...

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Shift24 10/31/2019 at 13:00

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Ha, that’s both funny and frightening. I don’t get how people in places where we/they get snow/rain/etc. always seem to forget how to drive in it. It’s mind-boggling, really. Like they think this is the first time it’s ever snowed-rained-iced here, or something, completely forgetting every past Fall/Winter/Spring .

fhrblig > Ash78, voting early and often 10/31/2019 at 15:40

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Or Texas