"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote
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"Mike Marlow"
wrote in

I'm about fed up with winter this year! Here's
an excerpt from the
local on-line newspaper... (BTW - January was
only marginally better
than February).




"Syracuse had already broken two cold
temperature records this month,
and now it's time to add one mo the most
days below zero in a
calendar year.

"This is the 20th time this year that we have
dropped below zero,
which is an all-time record," the National
Weather Service reported.
That number might grow with several below-zero
days forecast this
week, the weather service said.
February 2015 will also likely break two other
records: coldest month
on record and first month in which the
temperature never rose above
freezing.

Records date back to 1902."



These statistics are recorded at the airport
down in Syracuse. Up
here where we live, on any given day we are
5-10 degrees colder than
Syracuse, and we certainly get more snow than
they do at the airport -
usually in the neighborhood of 50% more. It's
something when 0
degrees seems "not so bad today", and 20 seems
downright warm. You go
outside in jeans, a flannel shirt, and a
windbreaker. I don't know
how many mornings I woke up to -20F without
windchill factor, this
year - but it sure seems like a lot. I don't
pay a bit of attention
to windchill - I consider that more of a media
hype element than
something I really need to care about.

And to think - we started off this winter
season with a green
Christmas... Where is that freakin' Global
Warming stuff that I keep
hearing about?


Some of these low temperatures are ridiculous.
My ideal is 20F during
the day and around 10F at night. It's too bad
we've wasted all this cold
with 0F at night and a month of 30-40F. If the
weather had averaged out,
it'd have been a really nice year.

I love winter, and think in part it's because I
have the stuff to deal
with it. My snow blower isn't that great, but I
only need it to clear
the ice rink. If it's too cold for a coat,
there's always a sweater to
put on under it. (I took that off this
morning--too warm. It was 8F and
I was skating.)

Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.

Another _good_ thing about winter is, NO BUGS!
;)}