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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ... it's officially winter.
Oh how I hate winter! At least it's 64 F this morn...
Ya'll stay warm!  |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | That's good news: stay indoors and play! |
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Location: Delaware | Ify, I'd kill (or play a taylor) for 64 degrees. It's about 29 here with a lovely mix of sleet and rain. Good day to play. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
... it's officially winter.
Oh how I hate winter! At least it's 64 F this morn...
Ya'll stay warm! |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | It's -9 in Madison this morning with wind chills between -25 and -30. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Iffy, Bite Me!
You come up here and you'll see what it's really about. Bad news is you'll probably break the other ankle sliding in this spoo. It's pretty till it's all over your shoes...
Hope you're mending well and quickly. MCHNY. |
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Location: Utah | 21 F, and a foot of snow in the yard. Conditions are perfect for skiing according to my son who spent yesterday at Snowbird. He complained last week that there was too much powder, but this week is perfect.
So y'all come on out and enjoy the best snow on earth. Bring your special someone for the apres ski. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
... it's officially winter.
Oh how I hate winter! At least it's 64 F this morn...
Ya'll stay warm! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I don't know what the temp is outside... and I don't want to know! It's pouring rain right now... which means Nicky's hockey game will be cancelled which means I don't have to stand outside in it again.
I'm going to relax and try some of that Oban (later) and practice my Christmas songs (both of them) on the geetar. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | 8" fresh on top of 4" old, for about 10" over-all.
(snow'll do funny math like that...)
2 below freezing and light snow still falling.
I think I can make snowshoes out of a couple squash rackets. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Let's put a positive spin on this...
It's also Winter Solstice (Shortest day of the year).
We now start moving closer to Spring and SUMMER!!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | now you're talking! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | It's been cold and snowy here for the past month with about 4 feet of snow piled around the house, so I don't care what it's like outside anymore. I'm just gonna stay inside by the fire and play guitars - and maybe watch Sleeezebay on and off. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | You southerners best not get too cocky... There's already been snow in Texas, on Malibu beach in California, and on the Vegas strip in the desert.
You'll get yours.
Remember when it's cold, you can just put more clothes on when you go out. When it's hot... you can strip down to nothing.. and it's still freak'n hot. You can keep that nonsense. I grew up in Connecticut, and lived in the Philippines, Hawaii and Alaska and several other places. I like where I am now the best. Average year-round is about 60. Rarely over 80, rarely under 40. Oh yeah... lived in Florida too.. well sortof.. PenSUCKScola.
I truly don't understand the attraction of hot weather. Can't breath, can't move, yuck. |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Hot weather do suck....I was rearded in LA..(Lower Alabama)...That's why I love these mountains....You get a little bit of everything...
Happy Christmas |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'd really LIKE a little bit of everything. Up here in Northern Michigan lately, you pretty-much get a lot of winter and not enough of anything else. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
When it's hot... you can strip down to nothing.. and it's still freak'n hot.
That's why there is beer and swimming pools! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm with Miles, but I've learned to take the heat we get here in the summer. It's a dry heat, as they say in Arizona. When it gets over 100, I golf in the evening.
Winter is for skiing and aybe some snowshoeing. Our Springs and Falls are fantastic. |
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Location: New Hampsha | 18 degrees,
30mph breeze, (which is like minus 400 degrees wind chill)
whiteout conditions
a fresh foot on top of yesterdays' 10 inches.
but it's a dry cold.... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by War Eagle:
Hot weather do suck....I was rearded in LA..(Lower Alabama)...That's why I love these mountains....You get a little bit of everything...
Happy Christmas I'm with you Keith. When the weather is like today,(mid 30s), stay inside and play guitar and in the summer when it is in the 90s, stay inside and play guitar.
I lived in New York and do not miss the weather Beal and some of the others are having. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 6 degrees, 25 mph wind gusting to 30+ = -15-20 degrees windchill...balmy...lol
We need a good winter..we've skated by for 7 years...we're due...
Spring comes in 3 months... |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | The birds have got it right - they are migrating down here during your winter - 30C in Melbourne and trying to think of fresh cold seafood and roast turkey and pudding in 3 days time :confused: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Though I love my winter trips to Mexico (and fantasize about spending 4-6 months a year there) there is something to be said for having three distinct seasons.
Besides, Chantrelles don't grow wild in a 'dry cold'. |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
You'll get yours. Lived in MN most of my life. I’ve had mine, thank you. :)
Remember when it's cold, you can just put more clothes on when you go out. …to bust your back shoveling the driveway, then bust your balls on the impenetrable berm at the end where the plow guys gleefully piled up another couple tons of heavy packed stuff, then scrape the ice off the car which needs to waste precious gas warming up for ten minutes before the windows will clear and you can get to your second job that you need to pay for your preposterous home heating bills, and the exhaust you just replaced on the car because the salt eats it off every coupla years.
I truly don't understand the attraction of cold weather. ;)
Aww… I’m not even half serious, Miles. While I am digging the temperate South Carolina climate, I would be lying if I said that I didn’t still crave a good dose of snow and cold once in a while. When I do have the opportunity to get out in weather like that, it always strikes a familiar and comfortable chord somewhere down deep. Hardships aside, I have lots of good memories and adventures that are associated with those arctic conditions. And you gotta admit, it does keep the bugs at bay. Really have to laugh at the mosquitoes down here, (they’re so tiny and cute) but the uh… “Palmetto bugs” kinda drive me up a wall. :p
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | This morning it was 10 in backyard, with 2 feet of fluffy snow. Great for skiing. Love cross country. Either you have to adapt to the climate or you hate it. I pretty much loved everywhere I lived, except Buffalo. If you've been there you know what I mean, cloudy all the time, too much of that lake effect snow, white out conditions, too short summers, economically depressed, the town is depopulating, probably under a 1/4 million by now, I feel sorry for the place. |
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Location: big island | here on big island, we've had a couple light dustings of snow on mauna kea so far this season. next month it will most likely snow several feet at which time many of our residents will drive their trucks up to the summit, pack and overfill their truck beds with snow and transport whatever doesn't melt en route to their yards. then it will be major snowball fighting time in 80 degree weather! what a hoot.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Miles, you've lived in the NW long enough to know that you are not supposed to let the others know the secret.
It snowed so much here that the Boxster hit a couple of snow clods on the way in to work this morning. Second time that's happened since I bought it in 99. Oh, the misery. The girls made it home just before the big snow hit Portland and we'll be skiing this weekend. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
It snowed so much here that the Boxster hit a couple of snow clods on the way in to work this morning. Was it these guys, eh?
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Location: Nashville TN. | Your welcome to my share.......
18 out and -2 windchill |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Here's how Puget Sounders enjoy the Winter... however it happens!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Waskel, the guy on the right's head is too big. I'd have high centered. I woulda cleared the guy on the left with a running start. Canadian clods are generally bigger than that. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Good money says that most of the upper half of the U.S., and some of the bottom half, will have snow on the ground, if not falling through the air, on Christmas day this year. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Anyone who's missing any and actually WANTS some, pm me. I'll get it right off to you. Plenty for EVERYONE.
You pay postage. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | When we moved here we proudly left our snow shovels back east. "I'm never shoveling a driveway or sidewalk again" I proclaimed. I guess I should not have been so specific... Just got done shoveling about 900 cubic feet (that's over 14,000 lbs) of snow OFF MY CARPORT ROOF!!!!
On the bright side, it is a lovely night. Snow glistening off the trees, peace and quiet... ahhhh. This is gonna hurt tomorrow. |
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