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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 24, 2016 5:02:16 GMT
The forecast high temperatures for the next five days are low to mid 70s.
If it's any consolation to you, the sky will be mostly cloudy with drizzle likely each day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 13:49:09 GMT
I can dig it. Kinda tough on a deer hunter, but for Christmas it will be ok. Merry Christmas!!!
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 24, 2016 15:27:45 GMT
I can dig it, you can dig it, we all can dig it...Merry Christmas!
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 26, 2016 3:22:15 GMT
Today's (Christmas) high was 80°. This morning's low temperature was a frosty 67°.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2016 4:05:25 GMT
I'm sure I don't live next door to you BI, so just to verify that you're not one of those off the wall pseudo scientists, I'll verify that here too, hit the 80 degree mark. It was different for sure, not in a bad way I might add...but just different. The camellias are looking at their second blush for the year. Earlier this week, I found a baby rat snake in the mulch of a flower bed peeking his head out for a look around. I deposited him to more a more friendly habitat out near the fence. It would be nice if the new camellias made it to full flower this go 'round, but its a recurring frosty morning that usually comes along to circumvent that, but maybe not this year.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 26, 2016 13:54:28 GMT
Sadly no camellias, azaleas or hydrangeas here.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Dec 26, 2016 15:21:43 GMT
Sorry you didn't have a white Christmas. Maybe next year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2016 15:24:43 GMT
Thanks CF, I appreciate the sentiment, but like you some folks live where they live because they like it.
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 26, 2016 15:47:36 GMT
Christmas here in NY was 50, today, high 30's. Mild for us here. I'm not fond of frigid weather or snow...but I live where my heart is...home❤️
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Post by spacecase0 on Dec 26, 2016 16:28:12 GMT
I like summer, it is uncomfortable, but that is all it is.
but winter hurts, so I like it less.
26F outside this morning, 36F inside.
I clearly need to move to the tropics.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Dec 26, 2016 18:15:12 GMT
Thanks CF, I appreciate the sentiment, but like you some folks live where they live because they like it. I'll remind them about that next August. Besides, what's not to like about snowmobiling, icefishing, skiing, sledding, skating, snowshoeing, tubing, etc., etc., etc.? Merry Christmas!  |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 26, 2016 20:24:45 GMT
Enjoyed the lovely picture. Is that WIHH and her father?
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Post by Cabin Fever on Dec 26, 2016 21:05:08 GMT
Enjoyed the lovely picture. Is that WIHH and her father? Grandfather..... |
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Post by adirondackgal on Dec 26, 2016 22:09:15 GMT
The weather here today is frightful. Teens and freezing ran. Everywhere there are cars off the road and in the ditch. Not a good day to be out and about.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 26, 2016 23:41:04 GMT
Got up to 84° here today (26th). But this morning was a nippy 66°.
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 27, 2016 20:57:08 GMT
Enjoyed the lovely picture. Is that WIHH and her father? Grandfather..... Very funny CF😇 You two make a lovely couple! |
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Post by paquebot on Dec 29, 2016 3:38:07 GMT
In 1980, I spent Christmas in Durban, South Africa. In two weeks, burned, blistered, peeled, and burned again. Some stores had scrawny Christmas trees which came from who knows where since they were not native. Saw one Santa and he was a Zulu. Was at a wedding reception where back lawn landscaping offered up to 6 varieties of bananas ripe at the moment. Our hosts were ex-Dutch who often went back home to visit during the coldest part of the northern winter. Why? If there is little or no changing of the seasons, there is little to look forward to.
Martin
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jan 9, 2017 1:44:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 3:02:15 GMT
I had a northern friend who explained to me what a "shot gun snow" was. Its a humorous aspect of the culture in some of those snow ridden areas when an unexpected snow storm hits and they're not prepared. It piles up against the doors so high they can't get out of their cabins, they poop in a shotgun barrel and shoot it out the window.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jan 9, 2017 4:01:49 GMT
I didn't know that.
To listen to some of them talk one would think they might need a mortar.
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Post by Skandi on Jan 9, 2017 5:05:04 GMT
when I visited Finland I was initial ammazed by how many houses had doors to nowhere on the second floor.. then I realised, oh duh snow doors. gets rid of the need for a shotgun  Winter here is cold wet and WINDY nothing fun about it, already had two gales this year winds up to 60mph we've had 6" snow came down over two days and went in two days to rain, just enough left to freeze into a sheet of ice every night and defrost into mud every day. I do not think Danish winters have anything going for them. temps are 30-40F and will stay there for a couple of months more. |
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Post by here to stay on Jan 9, 2017 13:41:34 GMT
when I visited Finland I was initial ammazed by how many houses had doors to nowhere on the second floor.. then I realised, oh duh snow doors. gets rid of the need for a shotgun Winter here is cold wet and WINDY nothing fun about it, already had two gales this year winds up to 60mph we've had 6" snow came down over two days and went in two days to rain, just enough left to freeze into a sheet of ice every night and defrost into mud every day. I do not think Danish winters have anything going for them. temps are 30-40F and will stay there for a couple of months more. I've seen houses in the Sierras and Rockies with doors like that. At least in the summer. There's no such views in the winter. I can remember "touring" up to Crater Lake in July and not being able to see above the snow banks on the few open hughways. People who live all year in such places are tougher than I coukd ever be. We're having winds here too. Living surrounded by redwoods it can be pretty still on the ground but the tree tops are whipping huge amounts. I learned a new term this weekend- tacoing. It's where a tree falls on a car or house, crushing the center but leaving each end upright. |
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