Seveer weather

[vetdrem]

> Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in Ashland. She said
> that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and
> is still falling..
>
> The temperature is dropping far below zero and the north wind is
>
> increasing to near gale force.
>
> Her husband has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and
> just stare.
>
> She says that if it gets much worse, she may have to let the drunken
> bastard in.

[waltermrich]

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Is that Ashland Mi, or Oregon

[Marv]

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I think it was Kentucky.

[Carrieve]

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Or Ashland, Wisconsin. It is on Lake Superior and I land N43955 on skis there a walk across US 2 and have lunch. And yes the snow is up to your a** and it is da** cold.

[waltermrich]

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[That would be the most likely, Oregon is to warm as the weather channel reported, Temps in Iowa are well below 0 now and expected to reach near 20 below tonight with wind chills near 50 below. No preceps thankfully

[cvavon]

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Here in TN the wind has stayed around 20 mph and gusting much moor rain is turning to sleet then later on tonight snow and temps in the single digits.

[stearman3]

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No worries mates.

Global Warming and all.

Just ask the folks stuck at the South Pole.

[Hank Jarrett]

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Not to make the guys in the frozen wilderness upset, but it is 11:00 p.m. and I just went out with the puppy, in a short sleeved shirt and summer slacks. Don't you just LOVE the Chesapeake Bay effect when it deflects bad weather just north of us! We are hoping we will stay lucky for as long as possible. When we get a Nor-Easter we can get clobbered.

Hank

And this area is NOT prepared for it! A quarter inch of snow brings the whole area to its knees. These southerners just CAN'T drive in snow.

[Bird]

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Hank, I was up in the crane this morning in Portsmouth and I had more than enough wind to takeoff and fly, temp was 64 and winds were up to 56mph @270', temp was just starting to drop when I bailed out at 11am. Don't think we will be doing much tomorrow with the wind chill to be near or below 0.

[crispy critter]

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Just checked the temp outside.... -6 (for you southerners, that means 6 below zero!), wind is gusting 20-30mph. I know this must sound like a heat wave to y'all in Alaska and the northern tundra but it's damn cold for us, even here in east Kentucky. Didn't get much snow thou....that's a bit of a let down with this kinda temps.
I can remember when I was a kid that temps like this and a couple feet of snow was normal for our area, now we are lucky to get 8-12 inches of snow all winter if we get that. The temps used to drop below freezing around thanksgiving and rarely made it above again until march. Now we have temps like a yo-yo, 70 one day with tstorms and freezing the next. From one extreme to the other all winter long. It's crazy and seems to getting more unpredictable every winter.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I know the Global Climate Change folks will go nuts, but the temperature changes are aligning pretty well world wide with solar activity. LOTS of sun spots, warmer weather (on a global scale). Very little sun spot activity, colder weather. We have been having almost NO sun spots this fall because the poles inside the sun are in the process of their normal "flip". That just finished recently and that is usually followed by VIOLENT activity.
I am guessing, if we get a lot of sun spots oriented anywhere near towards us, we are going to have a short winter and a HOT spring and summer. Watch the news for info on sun spots and if we get those, we will probably have warm weather following it.
Just theories from the Helio-Science community, but at least we admit it is theory and don't claim to KNOW the answer.

Hank

By the way, Man does not have ANY control over sun spots and "carbon credits" won't reduce them.

[N96337]

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I just chatted with a friend up near Edmonton, AB....he said he's seen -50C up there (without chill factor) this week, but it had warmed up to -13, so he was out in shirtsleeves. hahaha

It's been a strange one here in MT too... we sit about 1000' higher than Kalispell, here at home, and usually in the winter we average about 10 degrees colder..... this winter we're about 5 to 10 degrees warmer! It got down to about 0 yesterday, but it's been an unusually mild winter here, and we're supposed to get 38 and rain by the weekend. Sure is raising heck with our sleigh ride business!
John