weather patterns and our hinterland city.
Typing a title first just messes up my head, LOL.
I had something to talk about, but the compelling tiny house metal frame build on my TV just wiped it out of my head.
I'm floating the idea of using a truck or bus as a base, rather than a straight trailer, so we can move it more easily. We also just saw a truck camper with enough pop and fold out bits to turn a bus into a split level with roof deck and offer a good thousand sq ft of useable living space. Damn thing looks like a fairy tale castle too.
So that's giving me bigger ideas, and why wouldn't it? I'd love to have an upper deck on which to plant some flowers. They put a tub up there but I'm really wondering if you can build it that strong, I guess, tubs on floors all the time, right? It's an interesting idea to be sure! I don't need to get a fairy castle with a turret out of it, though I wouldn't say no if it happened! I do love a good turret. A view in every direction, really, which I'm trying to build into every space of this house. I want to simply turn my head and see what's out there, without it being able to clearly see me back. Birds do this with shrubbery and you can mimic it on a shy bird's cage with lace fabric. Similarly, I could put lace in our windows, but simply using a lot of small windows in every direction is a more open solution. Part of making small spaces enjoyable in the long term is in making it look to the mind as though one could fly out the wall at any point in any direction, and see well in advance what's out side of the space. Being closed in can be nice if you get out a lot, but we will be spending inordinate amounts of time indoors due to climate (cold here, wet there) and personality, we're loners and creators, not partiers.
I wonder if the promised storm will get here? Earlier today a blizzard threatened but currently it appears a non-event. As usual, the cities just west of here will have gotten hammered hard. I truly think the city, popping out of a mostly undeveloped rural area, creates a heat wall that diverts weather. The valley it sits in helps anchor the air mass even in unstable weather so it maintains some effect on weather movement. I think it forces the incoming weather to dump it's load west of the city in order to climb over or go around the air mass. I've seen radar showing storms splitting around the city as often as they dissipate first. We get very much less adverse precipitation and winds in the city proper. Outskirts, especially down wind, won't see much shelter.
Sure enough, I just checked the radar, past 3 hours movement, and the storm has stopped it's eastward trek and begun to fade, with curious stripes, dumping it's snow and losing both momentum and power.. It'll get here as a high broken overcast, which is what's above now.
So peculiar. The sky directly above us is blue. It's got to be the heat produced by the city! At any given time in winter you can compare down town temps to the outskirts by the airport. You will find an average of 10 C warmer downtown. Even in summer you can still see a gradient of up to five degrees downtown. I can tell you without question that our urban habits produce a marked amountof heat that can be seen on a meteorological level. When I observe the composite north american satellite pictures for infrared I see it also, summer and winter. The image I use includes half of the oceans to either side. I can actually see the streaks of darker heat flowing into the ocean water or the storms forming over the cities. The mississippi, St. Lawrence, and Hudson rivers really show heated outflow but all along the south east coast the water is darker just off the coast from the cities. The whole densely populated area of both Canada and USA leaks obvious heat. when you watch the storms, the clouds, the hurricanes as they travel, again you see them drawn to or formed by the same areas with high heat signatures.
In the case of Saskatoon, we are very isolated from other cities. Each one exists as a smallish bubble in a flat landscape, with a groove or dip in the land forming the valley it's in. You can drive 2 hours before getting to another city and it'll make saskatoon look like a metropolis. Regina is around four hours away! So the wind can really get a whip on before finding a city, and a city can really hold a bubble shape. Nearby bubbles linking up would change the feature of the air mass so that the storm rams into it rather than going around or over as it's doing here.
I had something to talk about, but the compelling tiny house metal frame build on my TV just wiped it out of my head.
I'm floating the idea of using a truck or bus as a base, rather than a straight trailer, so we can move it more easily. We also just saw a truck camper with enough pop and fold out bits to turn a bus into a split level with roof deck and offer a good thousand sq ft of useable living space. Damn thing looks like a fairy tale castle too.
So that's giving me bigger ideas, and why wouldn't it? I'd love to have an upper deck on which to plant some flowers. They put a tub up there but I'm really wondering if you can build it that strong, I guess, tubs on floors all the time, right? It's an interesting idea to be sure! I don't need to get a fairy castle with a turret out of it, though I wouldn't say no if it happened! I do love a good turret. A view in every direction, really, which I'm trying to build into every space of this house. I want to simply turn my head and see what's out there, without it being able to clearly see me back. Birds do this with shrubbery and you can mimic it on a shy bird's cage with lace fabric. Similarly, I could put lace in our windows, but simply using a lot of small windows in every direction is a more open solution. Part of making small spaces enjoyable in the long term is in making it look to the mind as though one could fly out the wall at any point in any direction, and see well in advance what's out side of the space. Being closed in can be nice if you get out a lot, but we will be spending inordinate amounts of time indoors due to climate (cold here, wet there) and personality, we're loners and creators, not partiers.
I wonder if the promised storm will get here? Earlier today a blizzard threatened but currently it appears a non-event. As usual, the cities just west of here will have gotten hammered hard. I truly think the city, popping out of a mostly undeveloped rural area, creates a heat wall that diverts weather. The valley it sits in helps anchor the air mass even in unstable weather so it maintains some effect on weather movement. I think it forces the incoming weather to dump it's load west of the city in order to climb over or go around the air mass. I've seen radar showing storms splitting around the city as often as they dissipate first. We get very much less adverse precipitation and winds in the city proper. Outskirts, especially down wind, won't see much shelter.
Sure enough, I just checked the radar, past 3 hours movement, and the storm has stopped it's eastward trek and begun to fade, with curious stripes, dumping it's snow and losing both momentum and power.. It'll get here as a high broken overcast, which is what's above now.
So peculiar. The sky directly above us is blue. It's got to be the heat produced by the city! At any given time in winter you can compare down town temps to the outskirts by the airport. You will find an average of 10 C warmer downtown. Even in summer you can still see a gradient of up to five degrees downtown. I can tell you without question that our urban habits produce a marked amountof heat that can be seen on a meteorological level. When I observe the composite north american satellite pictures for infrared I see it also, summer and winter. The image I use includes half of the oceans to either side. I can actually see the streaks of darker heat flowing into the ocean water or the storms forming over the cities. The mississippi, St. Lawrence, and Hudson rivers really show heated outflow but all along the south east coast the water is darker just off the coast from the cities. The whole densely populated area of both Canada and USA leaks obvious heat. when you watch the storms, the clouds, the hurricanes as they travel, again you see them drawn to or formed by the same areas with high heat signatures.
In the case of Saskatoon, we are very isolated from other cities. Each one exists as a smallish bubble in a flat landscape, with a groove or dip in the land forming the valley it's in. You can drive 2 hours before getting to another city and it'll make saskatoon look like a metropolis. Regina is around four hours away! So the wind can really get a whip on before finding a city, and a city can really hold a bubble shape. Nearby bubbles linking up would change the feature of the air mass so that the storm rams into it rather than going around or over as it's doing here.