It's never a good sign...

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:59 am

...when the first snow falls before November. Not that it's going to stick, or anything, but just seeing it in the air is enough to want to put on my bunny slippers and pull the covers over my head and not emerge until April.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:45 am

For what it’s worth, the weather prognosticators are predicting a milder winter than usual.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:49 am

"... When the gales of November come early..."

Don't take any boat rides.

ex-khobar Andy · Post by **ex-khobar Andy** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:21 am

I lived for 24 years in Buffalo, about 2 hours down the QEW from Scooter. This time of year I do not miss it at all.

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:58 pm

BoSoxGal wrote:For what it’s worth, the weather prognosticators are predicting a milder winter than usual.

I hope so. I'll take 50+ degrees until December and spring thaw the first week of March, please.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:52 pm

I'd like some snow — maybe six to eight inches; but no more than a foot, max — for Christmas and New Year's if for no other purpose than sentimental reasons and to put one in the proper holiday mood, but so far as I'm concerned it can all melt and run down the sewers by MLK Day.

-"BB"-

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:56 am

Jarlaxle wrote:
BoSoxGal wrote:For what it’s worth, the weather prognosticators are predicting a milder winter than usual.
I hope so. I'll take 50+ degrees until December and spring thaw the first week of March, please.

The problem with that - which is what we’ve had here in Massachusetts the past two years, punctuated by a handful of severe nor’easters - is that by late April we are ankle deep in tick Armageddon and it becomes nearly impossible to enjoy nature in the best season of the year.

A good long deep freeze is how things work best.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:03 am

I'm still waiting for the first snow. It hasn't snowed here since 1976 for just a little while one day...

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:59 am

Joe Guy wrote:I'm still waiting for the first snow. It hasn't snowed here since 1976 for just a little while one day...

Demographically, I see that you most likely have a white Xmas almost every year.

MGMcAnick · Post by **MGMcAnick** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:23 pm

The record for local earliest measurable snowfall was set here on Oct 14th. The trees immediately began to change colors. We're well into fall, with many naked trees, and more of various colors.

Don't look now, but here comes this year's end of daylight saving time. I wish they'd leave DST on all year, but I understand that those north of me would see sunsets at 4:30, maybe earlier, come December.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:22 am

In Montana even with DST the sun was set by 4:30 during the worst of winter. Really high suicide rate up there, too. Lots of guns and lots of dark.

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:32 am

I hate winter.

I really need to move to Texas.

dales · Post by **dales** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:46 am

It was a balmy 80 degrees here in Pleasant Hill, CA.

We do need the rain though.

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:15 am

Jarlaxle wrote:I hate winter.

I really need to move to Texas.

Bad news: it's full of Texans.

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:06 pm

You say that like it's a bad thing.

ex-khobar Andy · Post by **ex-khobar Andy** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:55 pm

Janis Joplin was from Texas. It's been downhill since then.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:23 pm

My ex-brother-in-law moved from Wisconsin to Texas. Raised the average IQ of both states.

-"BB"-

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:05 am

dales · Post by **dales** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 1:12 am

Bicycle Bill wrote:My ex-brother-in-law moved from Wisconsin to Texas. Raised the average IQ of both states.

-"BB"-

That's what Will Rogers said when the Okies moved to California.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 3:02 am

The Will Rogers Phenomenon:

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