On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:08:30 +0000, Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> According to mine it's 34F (1°C) here at the moment and everyone is
> grateful the temperature's gone up, lowest point was apparently about
> 18F (-8°C) nearby.

Now that's getting into cold-ish territory.  Though I remember wind 
chills approaching -70 F while I was growing up.  Of course, I lived in 
the only school district in the state that held classes when the temps 
got that low.

Jim

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And lo On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:12:25 -0000, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:

> On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:08:30 +0000, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> According to mine it's 34F (1°C) here at the moment and everyone is
>> grateful the temperature's gone up, lowest point was apparently about
>> 18F (-8°C) nearby.
>
> Now that's getting into cold-ish territory.  Though I remember wind
> chills approaching -70 F while I was growing up.  Of course, I lived in
> the only school district in the state that held classes when the temps
> got that low.

Stepped out the house just and my neighbour had popped out for a smoke, we  
both looked at the drizzling rain and he asked "Do you know when we're  
supposed to be having snow?"
"I thought it was supposed to be before the rain, or possibly instead of.  
If it falls now it's not going to stick"
"I asked [wife] why the kids were at home and she said the school was  
closed due to the blizzard later"

We both looked up at the tupperware sky throwing rain at us.

"Yeah, right" we both said; 5C now.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
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> It's funny how that works, isn't it?  My wife and I went out the other
> day to go chat with our neighbours, and she put on a fairly heavy coat; I
> went out wearing a T-shirt.
>
> It was 37F outside at the time.  She declared it cold, but I thought it
> was really nice out.
>
> But 37F in October or November is *freezing*.
>
My daughter and I were outside kicking around her soccer ball yesterday.  It 
was about 45 degrees and sunny at the time.  Neither of us needed jackets. 
If it was July, we'd have frozen to death.  It's so strange...

We're currently getting some warm weather, and the snow is quickly 
disappearing.  I wish it would hold for awhile, but spring is still 2 months 
away.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:03:40 -0500, Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:498b1234@news.povray.org...
>> It's funny how that works, isn't it?  My wife and I went out the other
>> day to go chat with our neighbours, and she put on a fairly heavy coat;
>> I went out wearing a T-shirt.
>>
>> It was 37F outside at the time.  She declared it cold, but I thought it
>> was really nice out.
>>
>> But 37F in October or November is *freezing*.
>>
> My daughter and I were outside kicking around her soccer ball yesterday.
>  It was about 45 degrees and sunny at the time.  Neither of us needed
> jackets. If it was July, we'd have frozen to death.  It's so strange...
> 
> We're currently getting some warm weather, and the snow is quickly
> disappearing.  I wish it would hold for awhile, but spring is still 2
> months away.

Can't wait for it to get here, that's for sure.  I was standing in our 
office building to day (a rare day for me - I was actually not working 
from home) and it just suddenly dumped all over us - rain, snow, sleet, 
hail - not really sure what it was.  But there was a LOT of it.

The two guys I was talking to said "wow, that's cool", and I pointed out 
I had to drive 45 miles in it.  They thought it was slightly less cool.

In fairness, it was a pretty impressive bit of precip.

Jim

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