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    Brutal Winter Beast Cranks Up!
    I predicted that this winter would be a bad one and that has so far come to pass, with a vengeance. In the Dakotas an early blizzard in October killed 75,000 head of cattle. Here in NE winter was slow coming on but 2 days after I got the snow tires on (12/4) the snow started and has come down in typical deep winter fashion, at least a dusting each night and we live in a river valley, not on a mountain ridge. Right now we're in the midst of the worst storm of the season, WS Hercules, which will bring blizzard-like conditions to Boston and the Cape later this evening depositing a uniform 8-12 inches by tomorrow. There would appear to be a pattern of arctic air breakouts that will continue throughout the winter. Many attribute this new winter weather pattern to global warming -- the total of which I count myself them amongst. If winter gives you cold & snow, dress warm and do winter sports. Unfortunately a poor man froze to death in a winter encampment 25 miles to the South. I pray it doesn't happen anywhere else.
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    Sunny, some clouds, a little breezy in Boca Raton, FL. Awesome!!! I just moved down here from New York.
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    It's cooled off a bit
    Even though it's still going to be a sunny day the high is predicted to be only 69 degrees here in Clearwater, Florida. I guess that's why they call us the sunshine state.
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    Weather Report is Sweet in Los Osos, CA
    It's "Groundhog Day" practically everyday in Los Osos, CA: Sunny, high in the 60's, lows in the 40's. Like San Francisco ( 240 miles to the north), we can get fogged in for weeks in the summer - it's our natural air conditioning. Definitely a climate that suits my clothes!
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    Colder than usual, it seems
    Early December has really been cold in much of the USA. KC hasn't seen a day above freezing in almost 2 weeks. The beer in my garage is perilously near the freezing point. Storm Electra may give us out first snow Friday night before she moves east to wallop Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and the northeast. I have a nephew near Bozeman, MT: he sent me a photo of the Gallatin River completely frozen and jammed-up with ice chunks....brrr
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    I was whining
    about how cold it is in the Bay Area (which it is, though a bit warmer today) until my niece in Montana said it was -2 at 1 in the afternoon at her place.
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    forecast: "signifigant shrinkage"...
    high temps in the single digits and strong winds will make it feel like -20F to -35F for the next couple of days and nights. That damn northwest wind cuts right through the clothes.
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    For the weather! California has a more than moderate drought on it's hands. Last year there was about 1% and this year it is a 28% area constituting drought in the Sierra Nevada. The rains just aren't getting far enough South to make up the snow pack. Better hope for those Pineapple Expresses to start lining up. (Not the Seth Rogen kind!) This is the life-blood drinking water for SF & LA.
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    Typhoon Haiyan LIVE
    Typhoon Haiyan LIVE: Philippines mass burials begin as corpses clog roads. Nobody had ever heard of Tacloban, a coastal city on one of the islands that make up the 7000 that comprise the Phillipines. Despite the islands acting as a barrier to the sea, a wall of water piled up with the 190 mph winds as the superstorm piled up a storm surge that completely devastated the flimsy buildings of the city. Scenes of interviews with the survivors were harrowing, people climbing trees to survive and such. Current total is 2200 confirmed dead with many thousands more missing. Although the hurricane season was below normal in the US this is a definite sign of things to come with a one foot rise in sea levels in the last 100 years. The ocean has been absorbing the fossil-burning based heating of the atmosphere but nobody has an idea how long this can go on. Low-lying areas everywhere are in peril. Flood insurance will either not be offered or become so expensive as to be prohibitive. Rebuilding the Jersey Shore may have seemed like the "American Way" but it now seems to be a fool's errand. Better to make a realistic survey of the shoreline and give way to the ever-encroaching sea and make a stand with huge sea-walls. That seems to be the more realistic path. I think it's time or a summer holiday at Hatteras National Seashore before this great area disappears and is reclaimed by the sea. It could have all been so much different if the industrialized companies had compromised with the developing countries in the late 80s, early 90s. Nothing but the karma of environmental degradation due to greed is left to harvest.
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    The Tri-State area of NH/VT/ME peaked today with it's foliage. Without the usual couple of cold-weather spikes the colors haven't been as vivid this year but the artist's palate, fully unfolded before my eyes, is enough to make me weep for life as it comes to this part of the never-ending cycle.
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oh the wind and the rain we need it here too. last week its was record breaking heat in northeast PA. I luv the fall, lots of color.
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Last week at this time set a record high temp of 86 degrees for Erie, Pa. Today is 47 degrees, damp, and windy. I'm not looking forward to the comming winter, as I'm an Iron Worker and work outside. Love the summers though.
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Southern California has the best weather! It only got up to about 72 today on the coast. My mom and stepfather are staying with me for the week, and they thought it was a little chillier th than they'd been expecting, but I think it's just perfect.
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When I left Andalucia for the weekend, was sunny and close to 30 degrees (80 something for you farenheit guys) Was warm enough to get a wee bit of color in my face when outside. Here in southern Germany is crisp and cool, shocking enough to have given me a lovely cold.********************************* Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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I would love 72 right now!!! Next week we might see middle 60's.
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Today is warm and sunnyyesterday cloudy the day before it Pi**ed down like being in England, except for the warm and sunny Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Actually it was in the 60s yesterday and dry.The sun came out for a little while and the kids got a rare "play outside" afternoon. Up here in the NW its rare for mid-October. The cold rain and snow are right around the corner..... Eric
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Go f*#K yourself, San Diego! OK, I love this line 'cause I'm sick of hearing how f'ing great your weather is out there. ENOUGH ALREADY! DO YOU WANT MY HEAD TO EXPLODE? Just kidding, Izz. Over "here" we've had a summer of drought, heat and humidity (you do know it's not the heat, blah, blah, blah) and now it should be time for the greatest event of the year, autumn but the drought will be sure to abate our fun, in that regard. Sorry if I seem a bit bleak but here's how I see the weather report today (sorry this may be the wrong thread): You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. Of course that's just how I feel today. On other daze, I feel more like this (so don't worry, 'cause it's actually very beautiful here, crisp temps and vivid skies, with Halloween nipping the Autumn air with fanged teeth. No leaf color to speak of, as yet): Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream... of spring (with a box of Keenex on the night stand). Ciao. The Dude Abides!
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Yeah, we have 'em here in north Texas - you step outside and report what the weather is like. Weather forecasting? We don't bother, nobody knows. I believe it was Mark Twain who said - "Everyone complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it."
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we sure are getting lucky in the east. this is the best ?pc? INDIAN summer yet. it's so beautiful out today!! lots of sun and 70's-AGAIN. feel like i've been living in that PLEASANTVILLE movie, where it's always nice. nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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but it is not raining - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Back in the mid 70's again for Erie,Pa. Who knows for how long. Just have to enjoy it while we can!!
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still dark here, but it is daylight supposedly the joys of Spanish Weather Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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hey now! forget about the frigging weather... what time is it where you are??!! ( -; in our house, it is ALWAYS 5:15. love and peace.
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the Elvis clock dances, the legs move back and forth like a pendulum, the two other clocks have some nice, deep tones, but this one below is maybe my fav; if you click on the image you will be able to see the label "Made in Occupied Japan" which is pretty damn cool if I do say so my damn self. so, what time is it where you are?? love and peace. ( -:
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It is so muggy here in NJ.....waiting for the cold rain & snow!!And it 's 5 o'clock somewhere...right CC Joe??
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it is NEVER 5:00, it is only ever 5:15!! ( -; where me and my old lady left our brains back in the day... ( -: peace.
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When a blind man takes your hand and says; Don't you see - you have the most beautiful face; Don't you see - we're floating in space; Don't you see - happiness makes you cry; Don't you see - everyone you know someday will die. Life goes fast; It's hard to make the good things last; The sun doesn't "go down"; It's just an illusion caused by the world spining 'round. It's apparently music fusion time for me. Thanks Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips for not suing me for loving your music. "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
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"I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device." Golden Road - I knew that man's face, just hadn't thought about it and your quote but had an aha moment just now. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Wiliam Blake
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And yes it has everything to do with the weather. "It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making." Nikola Tesla If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Wiliam Blake
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I love it when folks "get me". Nikola belongs with "US" and that's what I've attempted to do for him and us. "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
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man i envy people on the east coast ,this is always been my fav,time of the tear.New ENGLAND,is like gods canvase all the colars youll never see here in suc ramnto.,meant sacramento.it has its good points.eehemm???anyhow weather this afternoon,was nice ,later in eve it misted!this is not rain...
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Here in the original Sierra Nevada it is a sunny morning with a little autumn chill in the air Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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a nice sunny fall day here in sacramento.time for yard work.,listen to some good music ,play a few tunes on the ol;martin.a day to enjoy. peace,heathaafeathaa
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i have been out for a walk with Nico the mutt and picked some mushrooms for breakfast. There are lots this year because of the amount of rain we have had Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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cool and sunny morning here in sacramento ,nice day to take the putt,for a ride.up to the hills maybe see some nice fall foliage.
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I'm down here visiting family in Laguna Niguel till tomorrow, and while there are no fires in the immmediate area, there are at least 10 significant fires in SoCal, and the air is so thick with smoke you can barely see the houses across the street, forget the ocean. I can only imagine what it's like in the actual fire area. My brother's a volunteer firefighter in Fallbrook, and consqeuently couldn't come to our family gathering yesterday.
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Here in Eastern Washington the skies are grey and the temperature is in the 40's and it feels damp. The hardwoods leaves are falling and some of the trees are getting bare and others are quite colorful. The rains have come and fire season here is over until next July or August. Always a bit of relief with that. I know what you are going through in So. Cal. with the fires. A big part of our lives here. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Wiliam Blake
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Sorry about the lives affected by the fires. Here in Erie, PA we had a very nice day, warm and dry. Just took my son for a walk in the stroller, I think he enjoyed it. Tonight the weather should turn more fall like accordinding to the forecasters. Rainy and much cooler for the rest of the week.
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What Steve-O said goes for me, as well, in regards to those terrible fires. I'm praying for any relief possible for you guys. The news can't do the situation justice, I'm sure, and yet the images and scope presented on TV and internet are terrifying to everyone here on the other coast. Everyone I know is concerned and pulling for the situation to turn for the positive. The Dude Abides!
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positive vibes for the folks in firefighting and everyone in the area. for anyone who has never been in the belly of the beast in a wildfire, consider yourself blessed because it is like being in Dante's inferno of hell.
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Thanks for that update, CCJoe! (GRTUD's hands tremble as he opens a Xanax bottle and liberally pours them into the funnel he now hold's in his mouth). In a garbled voice GRTUD continues, "Ah, Dante's Hell...", as he chews, swallows the pills and his eyes glaze over. Thank you Walter, that makes me feel very secure, it makes me feel very warm inside.
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I am not in the firestorm as I live at the beach, but have been racing through three cell phones today trying to keep track of the 35 folks in my staff at work, several of home are facing the loss of everything material in their world. It is a very weird time in San Diego.
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There have not been any fires here this year, a few years back we had one thet come about 200 yards from the house, frightening Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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GRTUD et al, we were in our own Dante's inferno of fire hell and back, but that was years ago, not now. izzie, and everyone else in the So. Cal area that is affected by this terrible fire; positive vibes are heading your way, to all of your family and friends and, again, to all of the firefighters, people who risk life and limb. hopefully the gods of Santa Anna will cut the wind, and the rain will come.
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it was great here today in the hill it was to took the putt out for a ride and had just a sweatshirt on.leaves look nice to .on good thing about sacramento is that you dont need all your leathers on at this time of the year..just to enjoy the ride. peace heathaafeathaa
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hopefully it will clear later,when the sun gets up ---------------- - - - - Spanish Jam
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Is raining like hell in Sevilla this morning! Warm rain in October-how cool!i********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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Temps in the 50,s, got a ton of rain yesterday, brought the creeks way up. There will be lots of Steelhead in the creeks, but I'll have to let the water levels drop to be fishable. Probably will be fishin tomorrow!!!!