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Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:52 am
by bort
the elephant wrote:The four seasons in Mississippi are Summer, Mud, Winter, and then Mud/Early Summer.
The joke up here is that there are two seasons in Minnesota -- winter, and construction season.
Always seemed like such a "dad joke" to me, but living through it for 4 years now... it's pretty accurate.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 5:33 pm
by Three Valves
Fall has arrived!!
70+ yesterday
50 today...
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:03 am
by Three Valves
The bird bath was a bird skating rink this morning.
Time to put it away....
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:16 am
by Three Valves
Cold enough for cream chip beef this morning!!
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:09 pm
by MaryAnn
And here last week and the coming week, 50s at night and 80s during the day. It all sounds wonderful until June arrives. The bad part is the almost zero humidity, around 5%. That is DRY.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:14 pm
by bisontuba
Snow this morning.....
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:02 pm
by roughrider
Snow all day today.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:39 pm
by Three Valves
Maybe Mrs Bloke should get some sheep to help keep the grass under control.
They’ll look good with the chickens!!
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:52 pm
by scottw
Three Valves wrote:Maybe Mrs Bloke should get some sheep to help keep the grass under control.
They’ll look good with the chickens!!
An example of entrepreneurship: A local company is "leasing" sheep to ground-mounted solar arrays for just that reason. They eat all the grass/weeds growing under the angled array or they don't eat at all. All they require is for water to be given.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:16 am
by bort
12 degrees right now. Might only get up to 17.
Early November, and compared to where I grew up, it's already colder than it ever gets in the middle of winter.
I don't mind the cold... But the nearly 6 months of legit winter temps gets old after a while. Going to see if snowshoes and a fireplace hold the answer to a long winter this year...
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:38 am
by bort
bloke wrote:The climate accord meetings should be moved to Minneapolis in late January.
Yeah right... what sense would it make to select a city located on land that was previously covered by glaciers?
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:43 am
by bisontuba
bloke wrote:The climate accord meetings should be moved to Minneapolis in late January.
Joe, believe it, it IS real....
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:47 am
by bort
bisontuba wrote:bloke wrote:The climate accord meetings should be moved to Minneapolis in late January.
Joe, believe it, it IS real....
Oh wow, I didn't know they were ACTUALLY moved to Minneapolis in late January!
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:21 am
by Radar
Well currently taking a break from shoveling the 10+ inches of heavy wet white stuff. Got one car freed from the grasp of the white winter hell, cleared the block of frozen Ice in my driveway along the plowed road. I don't mind the fluffy light stuff but this heavy wet crap has got to go!! First snowfall of the year isn't supposed to be like this, should break us in gradually.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:48 pm
by bort
Last night in Minni, it was zero snow, zero clouds, zero ice ... And also zero degrees.
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:49 am
by roweenie
15° F this morning in the People's Republic of New York.
nworbekim wrote:I understand... i stopped shoveling snow a few years ago when a neighbor died of heart failure after having shoveled his out and had gone into the house, sat down for a few minutes and fell out of his chair... gone.
i broke down and bought a snow blower from my favorite cub cadet dealer and as i expected, and told him, it hasn't snowed hardly enough the last two winters to use it.... before, i was shoveling out our drive several times a winter.... i don't know how long the drive is, i was told it was a couple of tenths of a mile, but i don't think so... maybe 1. but it is, uphill slightly... fun
i always imagined the road crews delighting in piling snow at the end of my freshly shoveled drive... i don't guess they really did, but it surely was aggravating... there'd be a couple of feet of snow to shovel out...
heavier and wetter because of the salt having melted some of it...
Yes, sounds very familiar. After 20 years of procrastination, I finally got the adaptors needed to bolt a plow (sitting in my garage for those same 20 years, while I would shovel my 160 ft. long driveway) to my Gravely tractor.
I ain't getting any younger, either (and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as I can).
Re: a COLD front moving in
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:59 am
by roweenie
bloke wrote:roweenie wrote:15° F this morning in the People's Republic of New York.
' same temp here in Dixie's land (where I was born in)
Wow, that must be very unusual - quite different than just one short month ago!