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A SNOW-LESS Winter in Bahstin...

 
 
George
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2008 08:16 pm
Of course.
Bundle up, now.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 11:37 am
highs of 40's & 50's here this week...
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JPB
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 12:23 pm
rain, changed to snain, changed to snow.

more slop tomorrow.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Tue 4 Mar, 2008 10:57 am
ahhhhhhhhhh... 62°F.

let it rain...
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 4 Mar, 2008 01:39 pm
Temp falling right now and rain is approaching.

Laughing
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2008 01:00 pm
from today's Bahstin Globe...
Quote:
Winter easing its grip on Northeast
Temperatures rising 0.8 degrees a decade


The quintessential New England winter - frozen ponds, frigid days, and neighborhoods blanketed in white - is quietly fading away, as the season gets warmer and less snowy, according to an exhaustive new study.

Analyzing four decades of winter climate data, beginning in 1965, University of New Hampshire scientists found that regional temperatures are rising at a rate of 0.8 degrees per decade. Meanwhile, the number of days with snow on the ground is decreasing at the rate of 3.6 days per decade, the study found.

Both trends have intensified with time and were strongest in the heart of winter - January and February.

"A lot of people who have lived in the Northeast for 30 to 40 years have witnessed a distinct change in the character of their Northeast winter," said Elizabeth Burakowski, lead author of the study and a climate researcher at UNH. "Climate has changed in the past, and it will change in the future, but what makes this period distinct is we're witnessing this change in a human lifetime."

(keep reading...)

hamburger
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2008 03:14 pm
@Region Philbis,
OTTAWA - CANADA'S CAPITAL

wednesday , dec. 10 , 2008
35cm(about a foot) of snow fell overnight - all transport workers on strike - no busses running . people try to carpool , hitch a ride

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/12/10/ot-081210-ottawa-commute-banner.jpg

or walk for over two hours - as this fellow did .
you have to be hardy if you want to live and work in canada's capital .

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/12/10/ot-081210-sam-barr.jpg
patiodog
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2008 07:35 pm
@hamburger,
Looking at snow all weekend and a high of zero Fahrenheit to go back to work to on Monday. Why do we live in the God-forsaken middle of this continent?
ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2008 07:53 pm
@hamburger,
My favorite coat for quite a while was one my mother had gotten when they spent some time in Ottowa before I was born, back in the late thirties, early forties. It was similar to a regular straightlined camel hair coat except that it was in woven thick wool dark brown plaid, with some cushy lining. It got put in a Goodwill pile somewhere back in our southern california days. Would like to have that coat again now. (My father worked with a guy on some films who was at some point a naval commander, I think they werein Ottowa and in Halifax.) That Ottowa guy in the pic looks both calmly cold and cool..
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Sglass
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2008 10:45 pm
I saw the most amazing thing in Hilo this week.
A real snowman. Made with snow that someone had gone up to Mauna Kea and shoved up snow from a recent snowfall on the summit. Kids were going nutz.

It almost made me homesick.


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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 05:30 am
@patiodog,
Quote:
Why do we live in the God-forsaken middle of this continent?
ain't any better in the upper right hand corner...
patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 07:58 am
@Region Philbis,
A damn sight warmer, at least. But, then, they've given us 2 degrees now for our coming Monday high -- heat wave!
jespah
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 02:25 pm
@patiodog,
Looks like we have at least 3" of snow so far. On our way to 12 or more.
patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 04:50 pm
@jespah,
Yeah, we had 6 to 12 (blowing snow, varied from spot to spot) last night, more on the way tomorrow. Farmer's Almanac has us topping last year's record winter. I didn't buy it, but with an autumn like this, they may be right.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 04:59 pm
@patiodog,
apparently the two storms are meeting somewhere over Lake Ontario

oh joy oh bliss

I am looking forward to the thunder they're calling for on Sunday. Not so much the snow dumps that accompany the thunder.
patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 05:50 pm
@ehBeth,
They told us we'd get thunder last night, but we didn't (and the dogs would've got me up, so I didn't just sleep through it). Wisconsin's tornado alley is the counties to the east of us, though, so they may have hogged it all...

Ok, heigh ho, off to shovel I go...
Swimpy
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:08 pm
@patiodog,
This sucks! Meet the new winter, same as the old winter. Bah!
patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:58 pm
@Swimpy,
Ah, but it's beautiful. Not so much where the neighbor's snow-blowing service buried our basement windows under four feet of hard packed snow, but beautiful nonetheless. Even plonked out to the corner of the yard behind the garage to dig out the little fir tree we're trying to get to take root.
George
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 09:01 pm
@patiodog,
You want beauty?
I gotcha beauty right here!
Come on over and bring yer shovel.
mac11
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 11:54 pm
Ok, now I'm feeling really guilty about the post I just made on the Houston thread. Sorry about that guys. You're all welcome to head on down here where the weather's pretty damn decent.
 

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