Screaming_Emu
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I had a similar thought about Florida the other day. Do they have nice weather, or do they get the same amount of bad weather only it’s concentrated in the form of hurricanes.
Denver is closed, everyone go home.
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I had a similar thought about Florida the other day. Do they have nice weather, or do they get the same amount of bad weather only it’s concentrated in the form of hurricanes.
roundout
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This is true. Everywhere I've lived and traveled, locals say "well, if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes." The only place I've found that to be wholesale true is the Front Range.
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Greevumps, this weather is requested to cease and desist; the Los Angeles Kings were to play the Saint Louis Blues last night, but due to weather that precluded the little jet from taking off, the game was postponed and rescheduled. (Initially I thought the postponement, like almost every other NHL postponement, was due to ongoing coronavirus whack-a-mole, but no - they were apparently stuck in that mess after losing hard to the Avs.)
bLizZuE
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Yup back to the slums.
fholbert
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My AF time in Altus Oklahoma. It could not have been more true.
Went into the grocery store wearing shorts. Came out and it was cold as hell, that night it snowed.
Space Monkey
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Was the mountain airports fuel shortage a result of this storm, or just a coincidence? Apparently, as of today all the glitterati airports and usual suspect alternates have fuel again. But it was weird the last couple days.
Space Monkey
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And Florida! Don't forget Florida, y'all...
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Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
Years ago, sometime shortly after I-80 got its 4 lanes paved, my great uncle drove through a similar blizzard. The story goes the truckers heading east formed a rotating convoy similar to a bicycle peloton. They'd all lead for a spell, then pull left and drift (literally??) to the back where they could "relax". It was so intense that more than a couple of the drivers ended up with severe sciatica from the stress of sitting so attentively for long periods.My AF time in Altus Oklahoma. It could not have been more true.
Went into the grocery store wearing shorts. Came out and it was cold as hell, that night it snowed.
*by the way, @fholbert, I'm not sure what the genesis of this storm was, but I think if you were wearing shorts in the morning and skis by night, that's the wrong front graphic you've got there. I think you want blue chasing red.
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roundout
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Read it in Hebrew and it works
broncoav8r
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That happens(ed) quite often in West Michigan. @pilotmg1501 and @jtrain609 know from their time “on the line”
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
And in San Fran. That's a body of water thing... which, when do the etymology and track down the origins, is the basis for most of our language's quaint and pithy terms and sayings.
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broncoav8r
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San Fran gets fog (but you can totally see it coming).
The Bay Area’s idea of what “cold” is will entertain me forever. Poofy jackets and it’s barely touched 40 (or 5 for everyone else.) kinda hard to have snow with those temps.
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
"The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco." Even though "it's a damp cold", you're still correct regarding the wimpitude.
The tremendous and tremendously terrifying quality of humans is their ability to "re-normalize" quickly while completely forgetting the previous "normal". But hey, stockbrokers, politicians, and buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.
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Someone had the audacity to brag about his airlines flights not being cancelled and then the terminal roof went "*giggle*, you're so funny"
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And it’s got its own Twitter too, or it did for a while.
When I lived in Concord (really, closer to Clayton - we were nearer to the base of Diablo) my windshield would routinely frost overnight. I’ve been cold in the city proper, there, unprepared with only a hoodie, but you’re right - it’s merely a flesh wound compared to even places across the Bay.
///AMG
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Totally opposite end of the spectrum......but we have lived in extremely NW WA for a little over a year now. It isn't "cold" compared to a lot of you, but it is mostly 40's/50's aside from the summer (or dead of winter), and even then, it won't exceed the 70's for the most part, and a non-humid 70's at that. Last summer right before all the fires, we drove back up from OR (where it was in the 100's) and it was 100 as far north as Seattle. An hour north of that and west onto the island and it was only 78. You get the picture. It's just temperate and not normally hot by any standard. Anyway, we have seen a handful of days in the last week or two where it has been in the mid 50's. And the kid (almost 6 yrs old now) acts like he is in the middle of the Sahara. Complaining about how "hot" it is, how sweaty he is getting, and how "all the bees and mosquitoes are coming out". This is a kid who lived in VA Beach for almost 3 years, where it was muggy and high 80's-100's during summer, after his first two years in the high desert of NV where it was high 90s to healthy triple digits in the same part of the year. He is no stranger to hot humid or just plain hot summers. But I guess he has forgotten. If that isn't an example of "re-normalization" I don't know what is 
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fholbert
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I worked in Seattle during Dot Com, lived in a corporate apartment. While I was there a heat wave hit, maybe 85* . I spent the better part of an hour trying to turn on the AC before realizing the apartment didn't have AC.