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Post by Calidore on Dec 19, 2023 20:10:18 GMT -5
Much sympathy to MRP, shaxper, and captain shaxper jr. for the adversity you're all dealing with. Hope everyone is doing better soon.
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Post by driver1980 on Dec 20, 2023 3:43:16 GMT -5
Much sympathy to all of those who’ve posted about their adversities over the last day or so. Doubly so, given the time of year.
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Post by driver1980 on Dec 20, 2023 3:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Dec 20, 2023 12:15:12 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure winding a clock was never that guy's profession.
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Post by Farrar on Dec 20, 2023 18:10:23 GMT -5
MRPs_Missives I'm so sorry about Bear. He was much loved and will always be with you in your heart. Thinking of you and your family during this difficult time.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 21, 2023 10:30:22 GMT -5
Missed this yesterday. Happy Solstice Day. For those of us in the north, it was the shortest "day" of the year (in terms of time between sunrise and sunset, still 24 hours to the day), for those below the equator, the longest. Winter (or summer for some) is officially here.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2023 10:38:02 GMT -5
Missed this yesterday. Happy Solstice Day. For those of us in the north, it was the shortest "day" of the year (in terms of time between sunrise and sunset, still 24 hours to the day), for those below the equator, the longest. Winter (or summer for some) is officially here. -M Official winter tends to lag actual winter by at least a month.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 21, 2023 10:57:54 GMT -5
Missed this yesterday. Happy Solstice Day. For those of us in the north, it was the shortest "day" of the year (in terms of time between sunrise and sunset, still 24 hours to the day), for those below the equator, the longest. Winter (or summer for some) is officially here. -M Official winter tends to lag actual winter by at least a month. Meteorological winter goes for December 1-March 1. In your neck of the woods, usually longer, right? Here it's longer, mostly on the back end. Most years have no such thing as spring. We'll be gaining four seconds of daylight as of the 23rd. The sun won't be going down till 4:13. Huzzzah!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2023 11:06:21 GMT -5
Official winter tends to lag actual winter by at least a month. Meteorological winter goes for December 1-March 1. In your neck of the woods, usually longer, right? Here it's longer, mostly on the back end. Most years have no such thing as spring. We'll be gaining four seconds of daylight as of the 23rd. The sun won't be going down till 4:13. Huzzzah! We had 18 inches of snow the night of Thanksgiving. It's not every year...but often enough that I generally include the last half of November in winter. And it absolutely doesn't end until some time in March or April. The only month I don't ever remember seeing it snow in my area (say a radius of 150 miles) is August. We got snowed out of camping over Fourth of July in 1986.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 21, 2023 11:09:41 GMT -5
Meteorological winter goes for December 1-March 1. In your neck of the woods, usually longer, right? Here it's longer, mostly on the back end. Most years have no such thing as spring. We'll be gaining four seconds of daylight as of the 23rd. The sun won't be going down till 4:13. Huzzzah! We had 18 inches of snow the night of Thanksgiving. It's not every year...but often enough that I generally include the last half of November in winter. And it absolutely doesn't end until some time in March or April. The only month I don't ever remember seeing it snow in my area (say a radius of 150 miles) is August. We got snowed out of camping over Fourth of July in 1986. And I'm guessing those early snows are usually there to stay? No sudden warm snaps?
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Post by impulse on Dec 21, 2023 11:53:20 GMT -5
Snow in July?? Yikes. You win, Slam. Or lose, I guess?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2023 12:12:54 GMT -5
We had 18 inches of snow the night of Thanksgiving. It's not every year...but often enough that I generally include the last half of November in winter. And it absolutely doesn't end until some time in March or April. The only month I don't ever remember seeing it snow in my area (say a radius of 150 miles) is August. We got snowed out of camping over Fourth of July in 1986. And I'm guessing those early snows are usually there to stay? No sudden warm snaps? Nope. Well...not any more. When I was a kid we got a LOT more snow and it mostly just stuck. Somewhere I have a picture of me in high school standing on my pick-up (1972 Dodge Power-Wagon). The drifts along the roads were over my head. But not so much now. Most of that 18 inches from Thanksgiving is gone. Our winters aren't a patch on the upper plains for cold or on the Great Lakes region for snow. But we get it...and it comes when it damn well wants to come.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 21, 2023 12:26:19 GMT -5
And I'm guessing those early snows are usually there to stay? No sudden warm snaps? Nope. Well...not any more. When I was a kid we got a LOT more snow and it mostly just stuck. Somewhere I have a picture of me in high school standing on my pick-up (1972 Dodge Power-Wagon). The drifts along the roads were over my head. But not so much now. Most of that 18 inches from Thanksgiving is gone. Our winters aren't a patch on the upper plains for cold or on the Great Lakes region for snow. But we get it...and it comes when it damn well wants to come. Easy there, pal. That sounds suspicious to me. But I don't want to get eco-political.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2023 12:32:50 GMT -5
Nope. Well...not any more. When I was a kid we got a LOT more snow and it mostly just stuck. Somewhere I have a picture of me in high school standing on my pick-up (1972 Dodge Power-Wagon). The drifts along the roads were over my head. But not so much now. Most of that 18 inches from Thanksgiving is gone. Our winters aren't a patch on the upper plains for cold or on the Great Lakes region for snow. But we get it...and it comes when it damn well wants to come. Easy there, pal. That sounds suspicious to me. But I don't want to get eco-political. You already know where I stand there. But just from a historical standpoint I remember the winters of 1978 and 1979 being absolutely brutally cold. And...I think it was 1984 or 85 we got record snowfalls.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 21, 2023 15:20:19 GMT -5
You already know where I stand there. But just from a historical standpoint I remember the winters of 1978 and 1979 being absolutely brutally cold. And...I think it was 1984 or 85 we got record snowfalls. I recall that in 1985 (late November, Thanksgiving weekend) a huge snowstorm hit most of western Oregon and the northern tip of California. (I was driving up I-5 from the SF Bay are with my sister and brother-in-law, we barely made it home.) That was the most snow I ever remember; normally western Oregon, and esp. the Willamette Valley, had really moderate winters. Our biggest worry was freezing rain - more dangerous than snow, and not nearly as pretty.
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