How is your local weather this year compared to "normal" conditions
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"normal" conditions?
What's that? Lately, it seems we are setting records for everything from high, low, temp swing, etc. It's just getting wacky........
What's that? Lately, it seems we are setting records for everything from high, low, temp swing, etc. It's just getting wacky........
Usually would have billed six times plowing--only at three this year, and only one that SUV's needed... have seen 8-10 40 degree swings taking us from covered to bare ground. Tonight 38 degree rain & wind is taking away Wednesday's 10 degree ice pellets... hoping for bare ground again. Dryer, icier year than most. Cold and warm--swinging wildly--not cool.
orezok
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We’ve had 5.2” since Jan 1. Thats about what we’ve had annually for the last couple of years.
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And just what the heck is going on with your avatar? You okay... cabin fever?
oosik
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Dragoneggs - It just might be a touch of the fever. The avatar is now the Nordic rune symbol that represents my lineage. The dog and I have played so many games of "tug" with his shop towel - he's taking a nap. I have a little peace & quiet. The county road crews are overwhelmed with all this snow and the roads are either not plowed or only partially plowed. I got another 3" overnight.
I would sure like to get out and drive the new Power Wagon. Common sense tells me to wait. I don't want to meet up with some yahoo just learning how to drive in the snow. And, believe me, there are plenty of those - even over here.
So..... I futz with this and that and bide my time. It's that time of the year........ Thank God, I don't drink to battle cabin fever. Oh, I do drink a lot - but it's coffee now. In the day and at another location it was something else. It was kind of a - "keep up with the group" - thing.
I would sure like to get out and drive the new Power Wagon. Common sense tells me to wait. I don't want to meet up with some yahoo just learning how to drive in the snow. And, believe me, there are plenty of those - even over here.
So..... I futz with this and that and bide my time. It's that time of the year........ Thank God, I don't drink to battle cabin fever. Oh, I do drink a lot - but it's coffee now. In the day and at another location it was something else. It was kind of a - "keep up with the group" - thing.
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Very wet fall and winter. The fall had huge amounts of rain and the local lake had some of the highest water levels I have seen since the hurricanes in the 90's. Course, we had a wet fall because of multiple tropical storms and they hit and don't hit in cycles. Where a storm goes is also hit or miss. One of the storms was moving at turtle walking speeds which allowed for huge amounts of rain to fall. That has nothing to do with climate change just what ever weather pattern happens to be, or not be, over a given area.
This winter, knock on wood, has been a bit warmer than the last couple of years. Thank goodness. We seldom get to single digits but the last few years we have had temps down to 6 and 9 degrees F.
When I first moved to NC back in the 90's we had more snow back than we have been getting the last decade or so. At some point we will get slammed again with more snow. We are supposed to be moving into a cooling period as the sun gets less active. I know in one of the less active solar periods I was living in KY and we missed huge number of days in school because of the snow storms. It was so cold the Ohio river froze two years in a row and people were walking and DRIVING on the ice. Walking was sorta safe but driving a car was just flat out nuts.
Later,
Dan
This winter, knock on wood, has been a bit warmer than the last couple of years. Thank goodness. We seldom get to single digits but the last few years we have had temps down to 6 and 9 degrees F.
When I first moved to NC back in the 90's we had more snow back than we have been getting the last decade or so. At some point we will get slammed again with more snow. We are supposed to be moving into a cooling period as the sun gets less active. I know in one of the less active solar periods I was living in KY and we missed huge number of days in school because of the snow storms. It was so cold the Ohio river froze two years in a row and people were walking and DRIVING on the ice. Walking was sorta safe but driving a car was just flat out nuts.
Later,
Dan
oosik
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Most folks never experience the effects of falling thru thin ice and into the water below. I have first hand experience. It COMPLETELY knocks the wind out of you and, fortunately, as you go under for the first time - you are unable to breath in. If lucky, you surface and you are immediately faced with thermal shock.
I was very lucky. My yellow lab came over to see what all the commotion was all about. I grabbed his collar - it scared the snot out of him. He thru it into 4WD reverse and pulled me out on the ice. I did the "tummy crawl" the 100 feet to shore. I must have laid there on the shore for ten minutes - trying to regain my wits. I finally gathered enough strength to rise up and walk the quarter mile home.
I was out walking on my big lake. Just about this time of year. There was a foot of snow on the ice. The thin ice over the spring area never showed until I walked over it.
The shock of hitting that cold water is what I would suppose you would feel being hit, full on, by a semi truck going 70 mph.
I NEVER again go out on the ice on either of my lakes. I know the little lake has MANY spring areas. I had no idea the big lake did also.
I was very lucky. My yellow lab came over to see what all the commotion was all about. I grabbed his collar - it scared the snot out of him. He thru it into 4WD reverse and pulled me out on the ice. I did the "tummy crawl" the 100 feet to shore. I must have laid there on the shore for ten minutes - trying to regain my wits. I finally gathered enough strength to rise up and walk the quarter mile home.
I was out walking on my big lake. Just about this time of year. There was a foot of snow on the ice. The thin ice over the spring area never showed until I walked over it.
The shock of hitting that cold water is what I would suppose you would feel being hit, full on, by a semi truck going 70 mph.
I NEVER again go out on the ice on either of my lakes. I know the little lake has MANY spring areas. I had no idea the big lake did also.
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As a young teen, I went fishing alone in a lake in December... I figured I would catch something because the fish must be hungry. I walked out on a diving board extended from the dock to get my line out in deeper water. It was below freezing and had been for a while but the lake wasn't frozen over.
I was well dressed with heavy coat and big boots. After standing for a bit and gazing around as boredom set in, I forgot exactly where I was and stepped off the board and went straight into the water feet first and completely underwater fishing pole included. Talk about shock... as you said, 'completely knocks the wind out of you'. I can't say it a better way. After a long couple seconds I managed to wiggle my way over to the ladder. That episode was one of the scariest of my life.