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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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We ended up with about 8 inches of wet snow yesterday and then some melted off. A couple more inches fell overnight and the trees are all covered again this morning. Our temperature right here is 21F and more snow and lower temps are predicted tonight and all day tomorrow and Thursday and Saturday.
Our resident Anna's Hummingbirds have been freaking out and they are all trying to dominate the 3 feeders we have up. I counted 5 at one feeder and none of them got to feed more than a second before being attacked. Silly buggers!What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
75F here.
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ringo Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
It's currently -20 F here, expected to shoot up to a high of -18 F today. -31 tonight.
Wind is about 5 mph, which is considered a flat calm around here, so there isn't much wind chill. It snowed several inches on Christmas day and they're still cleaning that up. At my age, the ice bothers me more than the cold."I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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It snowed several inches on Christmas day and they're still cleaning that up. At my age, the ice bothers me more than the cold. Around here they wouldn't know a snow plow from a candy cane. I'm not fond of the cold but I dread falling on the ice.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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nwr Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
It's 34F here (and snowing). And I had thought that Oregon was warmer than Chicago.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
35F here today. Sluchmagedden!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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Sluchmagedden! Gesundheit.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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ringo Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Tanypteryx writes:
I don't remember if I've done this joke here before:
At my age, the ice bothers me more than the cold.When you're little, you slip and fall on the ice and you cry because it's the end of the world. But the end of the world doesn't last long. When you're school age, you slip and fall on the ice and you say, "Hey, that's fun!" So you keep doing it until your father tells you to stop, "You're making it slippery for everybody else," - and you thought you were doing them a favor. When you're High-school age, you slip and fall on the ice and you're embarassed. You hope nobody saw that, especially the girls. When you're grown up, you slip and fall on the ice and you're angry. "Why doesn't somebody put some salt on that?" When you're old, you slip and fall on the ice and you just lie there for a while assessing the situation. Any new aches and pains? Anything broken? When you do decide to get up, it's an operation that takes as much preparation as D-Day. And that's how it is until the pallbearers slip and fall on the ice. That would be funny, if you could see it.
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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Thirty years or more ago I slipped and fell on my parents' icy driveway. I was heading out to do some wildlife photography in the snow and carrying my camera with a heavy 500mm telephoto lens. As I fell I guess I twisted to protect the camera, but I fractured 2 ribs. That pretty much ruined that holiday trip.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
We're heading for the warmest New Year's Day on record.
It's 15C here during the day and 10C at night. Bloody ridiculous. Bees are flying, flowers are blooming. Bonkers. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 642 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Don't worry.
The warm weather will cause the greenland glaciers to melt, pushing the weakened gulf stream to the south (or have it totally disrupted). Then, things will get colder in the UK.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4451 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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It will be interesting to see how much effect the record snow pack in the Cascades and Sierras will have on the drought and wildfire conditions that we have seen here in the western U.S. for the past 10 years or so. Here, west of the Cascades, we are getting lots of rain and the local creeks that I monitor for dragonflies have been running just below flood stage for the past month. 4.5+ inches of rain predicted for the first part of this week with 36 inches of snow predicted above 4000 feet elevation.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Winter comes tonight. May not even make into the 60s tomorrow.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 7.0
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Maybe it's time to make a visit to Cancun?
"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
35F outside right now.
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