This is nuts... blueberries aren't even ripe yet!! I just bundled up to go for a walk... I'm getting too old for this stuff. Did a couple of frost warning signs for local golf course today.
I figure I can fit all my stuff in the back of a 5 ton box truck and make a break
Weather Forcast. Labrador City: Issued 4.30 PM NDT Wednesday 1 September 2004 Tonight .. Showers ending early this evening then cloudy. 40 percent chance of wet flurries overnight. Wind northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50. Low 2 . Thursday .. Showers. Showers mixed with a few wet flurries in the morning. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Wind west 30 km/h gusting to 50. High 8. Friday .. Cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers. Low 5. High 15. Saturday .. Showers. Low 6. High 11. Sunday .. Sunny. Low 4. High 16.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Why, Mike... you saying you ain't tough enough, then? Sheesh, I would have thought you were acclimated by now. Then again, flurries in early September is pushing the envelope a bit.
Ontario would be warmer. Then we can go for coffee and donuts with the wives. And play curling. and drink beer.
Need help packing?
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Come on down! It was only 110º today.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
In Alabam, we got'cher "warm" . . . and other descriptive word pictures too . . . .like: humid, moist, dank, mucky, sauna, steamy . . . .lol, sounds like a horror-romance situation don't it?
Humidity today . . .95% temp was only in the low 90's though . . .during the cloudy moments . . . the weather forcast which is the same everyday, is optimisticly vague as always:
Highs in the 90's & lows in the upper 80's . . .Clear and then turning "partly" cloudy today with "chances" of isolated showers begining in the early evening and increasing tonight with a chance of clearing off as well. Chance of rain today 40%.
[ September 01, 2004, 08:05 PM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Come the Florida the Hurricane State!!
Posted by Gene Golden (Member # 3934) on :
T.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. That Nasty Snow, TransLab And All Family's Leaving!
Words to live by...
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
What about the curling....
and beer?
Posted by J & N Signs (Member # 901) on :
Ain't much warmer here. I think we should go with Dave Grundy to Mexico...
[ September 01, 2004, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: J & N Signs ]
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Wait a minute Mario!!!!
They only make so much beer in Mexico ya know!!!
Could they maintain the flow with you there too???
( Do they have Bungee Jumping there???) Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
I doubt even Mario could make a dent in the 90 million cases that corona sold in the US alone... be fun to try 'tho
Posted by Rovelle W. Gratz (Member # 4404) on :
In Alabammy and Florida you don't got no State Income Tax, too.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Yeah Mike,
Come on down to the desert.
115 degrees on friggin' September 1st but it's cooling down to 110 today.. aye-aye-aye
On the plus side, we're done with rain until... hmmm... I guess August 2005. We only get 3-4 inches of rain and it all comes in one month.
Over 300 days of sunshine a year, gotta love it, but the few cloudy days are a nice reprieve.
It does hit a chilly 55-60 for high temps in the dead of winter (lasts about 2 weeks), 40's at night.. but I think you could handle that.
Can you handle 8-9 months of summer temps? By the time November rolls around everyone is just about sick of boating on the lake.
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
What did you expect, Mike? About the only places I can think of with colder climates are garden spots like Greenland, Kamchatka, or Antarctica.
Our part of New England is pretty good, mostly because no one weather pattern lasts long enough to get really sick of it. Winter is a crapshoot - it can be cold and snowy, or we can go all winter without more than a dusting. Summers will have their hot days, but rarely more than a few at a time - today, for example, is a balmy 75 degrees. Fall is the best and most consistent season, with warm, dry days, cool nights, and lots of color as the leaves change.
That leaves spring. Spring can really suck here. We'll get a nice day, clear and in the 60s, promptly followed by a week of cold rain. Then all of a sudden, one day in May or early June, it will be summer again.
Posted by Jeff Green (Member # 3508) on :
Alberta is not that much better, just a couple of good weeks of nice hot weather. The rest of the time cloudy and in the high teens, low twenty's (canadian tempatures that is). Like what was siad, you could always just go to Florida, nice hot weather mixed with some slightly strong winds!
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
and you wonder why i live in florida? i grew up in pa and up till 1980. i also lived in new england, well MAINE, aroostook county!!!!! most new englanders dont claim this place. camm i seen winters up there with 15 feet of snow and temps down to -75!!!!!!!! dont forget about mt. washington n.h. COLDEST PLACE IN THE U.S.
Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :
Misery loves company Mike! We are calling this the summer that never came. The headline in the Winnipeg Free Press on Tuesday was "Manitoba's summer worst in world". Climatologists have decided it ties with Siberia for the worst summer on record. One day since May 1st with weather over 30 degrees. The coolest mean temp since records began in 1873. Only a handful of sunny days, and not two in a row. Throw in record rainfall - and all is not well here in cottage country!!!! Since we are an hour and a half from Winnipeg we have had similar weather - with huge amounts of rainfall. Not sure how people survive who live in areas that have this much grey & rain all the time, but a winter holiday is a necessity this year. Debbie
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
ROV!!!! You say Alabammy & Floridy DON'T have no state income tax???
HEY!! I wanna refund on that $400 I paid in & all the other years I paid in AND on that nine cents on every dollar for everything I've ever bought!!!!!!
RO!!! Who tol' you that lie???
[ September 02, 2004, 10:35 PM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
Uh...Alabama DOES have a state income tax. Florida, however, doesn't. BOTH states have sales tax, and most counties tack on an extra few cents to the dollar.
I read where in Maine, last winter, some workers in an ice factory were staying in the freezer to stay warm...it was only zero degrees in the freezer...it was 30 below zero outside.
I went to North Carolina once. That was far enough north for me.
I can understand the first settlers in Canada. I'm sure it was summer when they got there. Why they stayed, I'll never know. Why people that live in a world that has the weather channel would MOVE there is beyond me.
I like the Panhandle.
[ September 05, 2004, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: William Bass ]
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Mike,
C'mon down this way. Pretty much the same weather that Cam described, but no income taxes. Heck, most of the towns up here don't have sign ordinances and you can do pretty much whatever you want on them.
Bruce, I'd pay money to watch you franticly slapping the ice with a broom in front of a rock. When's the next game? Rapid
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Dude, The brooms are a thing of the past. They use sweepers now. They look like mops. I really liked the "whoopity whop" of the old brooms.
Hey, if'n we don't do curling, there is still all that beer that needs attending to...
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Not all areas of Canada are cold in the winter. Here on the west coast of British Columbia in western Canada it's pretty balmy with only a week or two of snow generally.
We do get some rain on occasion especially in the winter ... but then again it's greener than most places. Many folks golf year round.
If you live here you really have to love mowing your lawn... it needs to be done three seasons of the year.
Summers are generally moderate although the last two were pretty warm by our standards (into the 90's pretty consistently) We don't suffer from the humidity that the east coast and midwest gets.
I've travelled many places and for extended times while doing work and in my experience there's no place I would rather live.
-dan
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
NO BROOMS!! geez Bruce... is nothing sacred? next thing ya know they'll be swiffering in front of the dang rock or curl whatever it's called
Oh yeah, Mike quit yer bitchin' I'm still praying for flurries. here's a quoate about our weather:
quote: Generally speaking, Hawaii does not have the four typical seasons. I think of the weather on Maui as either Summer or Winter. There is only about a 10 degree (Fahrenheit) difference between the hottest, and the coolest time of year (80 - 90 deg.) The main difference I see between the seasons is that the summer has more wind, and the winter has more rain.
Additionally, I should mention that there are "macro" weather patterns located throughout Maui. The windward side has the most rainfall and cloud cover, while at the same time the leeward side tends to be sunny and hot. As you drive around the island you can experience the difference between sunshine and a tropical downpour in just a few miles.
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