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Post by JamesP on Dec 20, 2015 18:55:05 GMT -5
With the first official day of Winter in N.A. tomorrow at 11:48 P.M., it seems a little too warm for this time of year. Here is the mountains of SW Virginia, we're supposed to be in the 30s and 40s. Temps supposed to be around 73 degrees F. on Christmas EVe. Guess Santa Clause will have to wear his swimwear.
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Post by jmuscara on Dec 21, 2015 7:18:11 GMT -5
That's what it's like here all the time. You never know how warm winter might be. But I like that even when it gets cold, it warms up in a few days. That's why I moved south!
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Post by tom1960 on Dec 25, 2015 9:39:15 GMT -5
I actually wore my shorts to work yesterday. I'm a postal letter carrier. The first time in nearly 30 years!
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Post by billf on Dec 25, 2015 10:05:25 GMT -5
Plants and birds have been behaving like it was spring for a couple of weeks here :-(
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Post by banjo on Dec 25, 2015 10:32:46 GMT -5
It'd 66° here and drizzling. The folks up in the North West of England have been flooded three times inside a month. Storm Desmond caused a landslide up there where we normally go for vacation a couple of times each year. It's sad to see the TV newsreel of walls, paths, roads, footbridges, fields and buildings that are extremely familiar to me- even people I know doing interviews all cast asunder. I feel for those guys. I saw cherry blossom on one tree in the local park in a long line of otherwise bare companions about 3 weeks ago. This morning we went for a Christmas day walk with our retriever and we saw daffodils out. What's going on guys... @ Tom 1960- our local posties challenge each other to see who can stay in shorts for the longest and it's rare to see a postie around here in long trousers, even in deep midwinter.
e&oe...
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Post by tom1960 on Dec 25, 2015 11:13:09 GMT -5
@ Tom 1960- our local posties challenge each other to see who can stay in shorts for the longest and it's rare to see a postie around here in long trousers, even in deep midwinter. e&oe... We have a few folks here stateside who do the same. Not me of course. 55 F is testing my limits.
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Post by JamesP on Dec 27, 2015 19:51:00 GMT -5
Be safe
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Post by jmuscara on Dec 28, 2015 7:51:36 GMT -5
Good luck! I didn't realize it had hit hard there too.
Here we were in the 80s with overnight lows in the 70s the past few days, but now that the front has moved through it's currently 41 and the high will only be in the low 50s. But, it should dry off. Those warm days were humid as heck, everything just felt wet so the dry should be a nice change. I prefer the warmth but the wet was getting to be a drag.
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Post by earleg on Jan 2, 2016 1:18:26 GMT -5
It was warm here also for last few weeks but now getting some chilly weather.
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Post by JamesP on Jan 5, 2016 7:12:38 GMT -5
Well,around here the weather has returned to normal. Snow showwes and cold temperatures finallyy arrived. El Nino is playing with us I suppose.
Now, as for you folks along the old Mississippi River, my thoughts and prayers go out to you. Flooding is reaching levels not seen before. Reminds me of the many roots songs of the great floods.
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Post by jmuscara on Jan 5, 2016 7:43:20 GMT -5
I missed that the Mississippi is doing that. Since 1969, Houston's first freeze averages on December 1. We haven't had one yet, and it's never been later than January 5. It didn't freeze this AM. There's no guarantee of when we will have a freeze. More here if you're interested. spacecityweather.com/no-hard-winter-yet-but-it-may-be-coming/
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Post by JamesP on Jan 8, 2016 22:29:39 GMT -5
Freezing fog. Visibility closing down to 0. If the first 12 days of January are representative of the coming year per old fables, we are in for.an unusual year.
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Post by jmuscara on Jan 9, 2016 10:16:52 GMT -5
Here are a couple of pictures of yesterday morning's fog over Houston. You'd think we were a city in the mountains! (It's a little hard to see the fog in the first pic, but look closer below the buildings.)
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Post by jmuscara on Jan 11, 2016 9:50:33 GMT -5
Houston had its first official freeze of the season this morning, five weeks later than normal.
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