Yes, it's here. Can't make up its mind about snow vs. rain

Post #66,763 by a6l6e6x 12/4/02 8:19:02 PM Reply	Yes, it's here. Can't make up its mind about snow vs. rain that freezes on contact with ground. The temperature is well below freezing. Will be a mad house for folks heading home tonight or to work tomorrow. I'm going to hang out around the house for now. Alex "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."\t-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)
Post #66,774 by deSitter 12/4/02 8:49:46 PM Reply	Re: Yes, it's here. Can't make up its mind about snow vs. Good snow in Missouri, we got 3 to 5 locally, as much as 10 farther south. The first flakes melted and then immediately froze as the temperature dropped (fascinating thermodynamics problem), then that got covered with an inch or so of snow - the roads were snarled and the plows got caught in the rush hour traffic. This is the year for snow. -drl
Post #66,783 by static 12/4/02 9:46:04 PM Reply	I'd love some here. Bushfire season is upon Australia. :-( Today in Sydney is very warm and extremely sunny. Forecast was 29C in the city. A few days of drenching rain every 7-12 days would be absolutely wonderful and just like the summers of my childhood, but the global climate seems to discourage that for some reason. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #66,786 by admin 12/4/02 9:53:10 PM Reply	Plenty here. About 4". I know that doesn't sound like much, but it's pretty amazing here just after Thanksgiving. We also tied the record low temperature here last night of 6F. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #66,788 by boxley 12/4/02 10:00:45 PM Reply	watch out for global warming el nino appears to have nailed you. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
Post #67,024 by deSitter 12/5/02 10:41:03 PM Reply	Re: I'd love some here. Summer in December. What a strange idea. Metric temperature is very simple: 40 - Scorching 30 - Hot 20 - Warm 10 - Cool 00 - Cold -10 - Frigid -20 - Bitter -30 - Brutal -drl
Post #67,027 by ben_tilly 12/5/02 10:57:40 PM Reply	Good summary :-) "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #67,068 by drewk 12/6/02 8:46:32 AM Reply	The "grandpa scale" Don't remember where I heard this, but take a typical Minnesota grandfather. Send him outside and ask him what it's like: Pretty warm -- the mosquitoes appear on air-traffic radar Nice enough -- pleasent and sunny down through 40F and raining hard Brisk -- Below freezing and possibly snowing (he may start wearing a jacket) Sorta chilly -- wind chill below minus 10 Right cold -- actual temperature below minus 20 and/or wind chill below minus 50 === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #66,814 by a6l6e6x 12/4/02 11:14:23 PM 12/5/02 8:06:51 PM Reply	Turned out pretty badly around here. [link\|http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021205/utilities_cp_l_storm_3.html\|Storm leaves over 1.5 mln in dark in U.S. South.] In North Carolina, Duke Power said the storm, the worst in the company's history, left about 1.2 million customers, half of its total customer base, without power this morning. It's a bad time of year to be w/o power. My wife and I were lucky not to lose power. We did lose a couple trees, a cedar and a Bradford pear. Most of the Bradford pear trees in the neighborhood were damaged to some extent. In Charlotte [link\|http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021205/nyth181_1.html\|264,000 Duke Power customers] were w/o power this morning. Note that a customer often means a family. This is considerably more than lost power with Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Alex "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."\t-- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18) Edited by a6l6e6x Dec. 5, 2002, 08:06:51 PM EST Expand All History
Post #66,991 by Meerkat 12/5/02 8:17:50 PM Reply	You have bad storms, we have major bushfires... So on average, the weather's fine :) But seriously, good luck getting through it, folks. John. Busy lad.

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