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This weather is wierd
« on: January 13, 2013, 09:53:27 PM »
Now normally in New England at this time of year, it is usually below 20 degrees, with at least a foot of snow on the ground.  Today it was hovering at 60!! Yeah 60!!  No snow. I am lucky if I have seen 3 inches. I want snow dammnit!! So I can take some nice winter pics!! :rant: :rant: :rant:
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 09:56:30 PM »
It didn't get above freezing today and is about 17 now.  We had a weird type of snow today, but no accumulation.  Instead of flakes it was more like tiny little balls of snow.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2013, 09:58:18 PM »
Friggin cold today, but we are on a warming trend now.  If it's gonna be this cold, I want snow!
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2013, 10:02:21 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on January 13, 2013, 09:58:18 PM
Friggin cold today, but we are on a warming trend now.  If it's gonna be this cold, I want snow!
Is it normal for it to be that cold for you??
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2013, 11:18:27 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on January 13, 2013, 09:53:27 PM
Now normally in New England at this time of year, it is usually below 20 degrees, with at least a foot of snow on the ground.  Today it was hovering at 60!! Yeah 60!!  No snow. I am lucky if I have seen 3 inches. I want snow dammnit!! So I can take some nice winter pics!! :rant: :rant: :rant:

Usually, cold weather will do that.

Or so I've been told.  :-)
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2013, 06:27:47 AM »
Nah. Just a blip. We've already had about a foot total of snow out of the two storms at the end of December and cold. We got a weekend reprieve here with the 60's too. I got in my car this am and it was about 30 out. Back to winter for us. What I've noticed happening in the last couple years here is the bulk of our precipitation comes with a warm front so we have had less snow and more rain. Although we had more snow with those last two storms I mentioned then we did all last winter. It is what it is. We are in a warmer cycle. I'm sure we will have a nice cold cycle in a few years that we can all collectively curse. I should put up a few shots I took when we had the snow on the ground. It certainly was beautiful :)
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2013, 07:04:38 AM »
We are having a warm January here in New England, but we have to snow blow and shovel that stuff when it falls as perty as it is when it does.

I'm stayin inside until it at least reaches the sixties and I can sit in the sun here.  I'm takin my vitamin D until then.  The only appearance I make outside the house in the winter is when I get in the car to go somewhere or to the mail box. 
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2013, 08:23:38 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on January 13, 2013, 10:02:21 PM
Is it normal for it to be that cold for you??

There is not one thing normal about Texas winter.  It was 70 on Friday, and 21 this am.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2013, 08:31:03 AM »
 :lmao: 32 degrees here with a windchill of 19.  It was 70 degrees 3 days ago  :rant:
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2013, 08:31:56 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on January 13, 2013, 11:18:27 PM
Usually, cold weather will do that.

Or so I've been told.  :-)

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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2013, 09:09:36 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on January 13, 2013, 11:18:27 PM
Usually, cold weather will do that.

Or so I've been told.  :-)

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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2013, 11:06:29 AM »
It got up to 82 this weekend here (Southeast GA). It's supposed to stay in the 70s for a couple more days. Normal temps for January here are high 50s to mid 60s. Its been wonderful being able to wear shorts in January. I HATE cold weather.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2013, 11:10:47 AM »
i think the earth has been tipped on its axis!!
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2013, 11:15:49 AM »
I'm about ready to take my vacation early this year and run down to Tennessee to see my sister.  She said it's in the high seventies down there.  I really miss baking in the sun next to my pool. 
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2013, 11:23:29 AM »
17o here, sunny, a total of about 3/4" of snow so far this winter.

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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2013, 11:30:28 AM »
Meh...still got 6-8 inches on the front yard, and while it's nice that all the snow has melted off the roof (although Scoobie may not agree with it dripping on her every time she hits the sliding back door) it's supposed to get back to "normal" (read: highs in upper 30's, lows in single digits) by the end of the week or early next.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2013, 11:42:02 AM »
Had a real nice ice storm on Saturday night. I knew we were in trouble when we got out of the movie theater and I encountered a quarter inch of ice on the car.

In slipping and sliding our way north to the tune of about 40 miles, I saw several cars off the road, in the median, and places where they shouldn't have been.  :o

It normally takes about 35 minutes to get home from town, but it took more than an hour on Sat. night. Better safe than sorry....

Checked out the condition of the road Sunday morning. Solid sheet of ice, but the sun came out the rest of the day and melted quite a bit, though it's still dangerous.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2013, 11:44:53 AM »
Yeah, snow I can handle no trouble.

Ice?  Not so much.  'Specially with all those really cool hills and curves they have on the Spaulding.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2013, 11:47:29 AM »
Quote from: Teri on January 14, 2013, 11:15:49 AM
I'm about ready to take my vacation early this year and run down to Tennessee to see my sister.  She said it's in the high seventies down there.  I really miss baking in the sun next to my pool. 
It was in the 70s... now it's about 30 degrees.  I would say you missed a nice weekend, but it rained like crazy the entire time.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2013, 11:48:43 AM »
I live in a part of the country that features a lotta guys and a lotta pickup trucks.

These were the yahoos wheeling past me heading home and one or two of 'em I might've seen spun off into the median.

I laughed as I slowly drove past 'em.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2013, 12:21:47 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on January 13, 2013, 10:02:21 PM
Is it normal for it to be that cold for you??

  One summer we had a water shortage, no watering lawns or yards.  People were sneaking out to put dripper hoses in their gardens. very low snow fall to melt and add to the water supply.

How goes the winter, goes the rest of the year, snow fall melting brings in the summers water.

   It is today at 1 pm. next door to you and the temperature is at 54 degrees,   My back deck is so warm I could go out and sunbath naked on it and not worry about a sun burn.   Just tan under low rays.  Lots of Vit. D.

My Daddy spent 20 + years as a diver in the USN and as far back as when I was a kid he could see changes coming on in the corral in Fla. Temp. shifts in the water and the odd changes to corral that was dieing out.

At one time he took me out on the lawn by the river and told me that my ascendants would plant orange trees on the property, in Maine.      He as most divers that follow the seas saw the changes that were coming our way.   One of these  [watch what happens in the seas and rivers to know how it will affect life on land.]

So today Sea we have weather that may jump start my roses, give a jolt to my Oak trees, then go away and what damage have they done--plenty.

I dug out some old pix from the 1940's that show huge snow banks up to the 2 floor of houses.   I tracked the years to find the more snow the more bountiful harvest the next summer.

Old time saying was to take the first harvest of hay before July 4,th.   Heck today we are lucky to get that first harvest before fall.

We have to adjust to Mother earth, go with what ever she brings in and survive around her laws.      
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2013, 01:01:21 PM »
It's friggin 60 degrees here in Massachusetts today!  I've got the windows open, fresh air and curtains blowin in the breeze.  I know it won't last long, but I'm certainly enjoying this today.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2013, 02:00:09 PM »
It's mid- to upper-40s here today.  It's supposed to get right back down to seasonable levels by Thursday.  Almost all of the snow has melted.

More will replace it.
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2013, 03:14:29 PM »
78 yesterday(Sunday) and 74 right now today.......furnace hasn't been on in 3 days.... :-)
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Re: This weather is wierd
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2013, 03:19:41 PM »
They shut down the schools at 1pm here.  It's raining.  :whatever:
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