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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Tuesday the temperatures were in the 80's. Today we had 4" of snow (and it's still coming down). It's supposed to snow tomorrow as well.

Go fig!

--Baloo

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Oh pooh, I was going to post something like that. Only I was going to call it "Lousy Smarch Weather."

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Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :

Haha, everything is fine and dandy here

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

We got lucky here. Everybody elsegot around a foot of snow in the last few days, but this valley got nothing.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Sounds like New England weather...

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

We had 10 inches of snow in less than 12 hours.
Then we had 3 days in a row of 50+ (Farenheit)-degree temperatures.

At the moment, my front yard (where I park my car) could qualify for protection as a wetland.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

$%^%& double posts..

Whether the weather is wet or whether the weather is dry...

*Don'tcha just LOVE "Bill Nye the Science Guy" music videos?*

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[This message was edited by First of Two on March 18, 1999.]

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

This is England, the place where it nearly always rains. However, we've been lucky the last week, and it's been pretty warm (for here anyway)

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

I'm in Scotland. Today it's sunny with some clouds briskly passing overhead. You can tell it's sunny because people come out into the street and stare upwards in awe at the big yellow round thing that feels hot in the sky.

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

Children of the sun, Children of the suuun!!

I read an article on the Okney Islands yesterday. I'd like to see them some time, also play St. Andrews. A friend of mine got to St. Andrews. Said the wind pushed the rain vertical, but they played their 18 holes anyway. Another friend brought me a golf ball from there.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

I've been to St Andrews.
S'nice. Also had OK weather when I go, at least better than I get on the West coast.
(Lapses into US modeYeah...west side livin...)
However, I'd need to sleep with someone very important to ever get to play the courses. Much more fun to walk across the first tee and slow everything up.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

*Looks at the sun as it arches overhead*.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

*Idly wonders if any posters here are located on exactly opposite sides of the planet*

*Checks between legs to make sure*

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

EXACTLY opposite? I doubt it. since the Earth is 3/4 water, the exact opposite point from most other points is in an ocean somewhere. Most of the remaining places are inhospitable sites.

Get a globe andcheck it out yourself.

The UK's opposite point is just south of the Antipodes Islands off New Zealand.

My own, Pennsylvania, USA's opposite is in the Indian Ocean, Southwest of Australia.

Funny that our opposite points are that "close"...

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Posted by Chimaera on :

Well, here in Vancouver all we mostly get is rain between about October and now (which is good, because you don't have to shovel it). Yesterday it was around 15, nice and warm (oh, 15 celsius which is about, um, *Chimaera thinks hard, something times something plus 32?* 60 F maybe?). I'm just thankful I don't live in Prince Rupert (northern B.C.) where they got over a meter (3 feet) in twelve hours a while back.

Posted by Chimaera on :

P.S.: Some scapegoats for wierd weather:
1. Global Warming
2. El nino
3. La Nina
4. Sunspots
5. Volcanoes

It seems as though 99% of the strange weather over here is blamed on those (well, not so much 4 and 5). I'm beginning to think those folks who predict the weather are developing a lack of imagination

Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

They had an imagination in the first place?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Note to would-be forecasters.

"Tomorrow will be pretty much like today" is accurate 80% of the time.

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Posted by DT (Member # 80) on :

Am I the only one worried that Monty is looking between his legs?

And am I the only one that wants to slap Daryus for being a cocky Aussie?

Here in SEPA(SouthEast Pennsylvania for all you unfamiliar with that term I just made up) we've got wonderful Smarch weather. No one looks at me funny for wearing my shorts(which gets really bad in February when people shout stuff at me) and yet... we have snow on the ground. Oy vey...

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

We all want to slap Daryus most of the time. It's a hobby.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Just saw a billboard today for The Weather Network, our weather news channel.

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TOLD YOU SO!!

Yep, that's what it said.

Speaking of the weather, I've heard reports that this winter was to be the meanest, snowiest, coldest winter in 20 years. And right now, all the snow has melted away. So much for that.

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Posted by monkeyboy on :

Well Chimera, U be from the best city to live in other than the rain as well??.
Cool!
Do'nt forget the freak wind storms this year.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Good Lord....enough with the slapping. Unless of course you happen to be female, about 5'8 with a knockout body. In that case, hammer me

PS: If you've got it, flaunt it! *Oh what a beautful morning...oh what a*.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

...and back to the weather!

High temp today was 72 degrees (~22 Celcius). All the snow has melted. Last night I wanted a late-night snack so I burned a burger on the grill.

When the weather's good, it's good!

--Baloo

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Too good to be true, I would say. Surely this global warming thing is having a whole effect on the planet.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Don't put all your eggs in one theoretical basket.

When I was in high school, the finest minds in science were predicting another ice age. Global warming is based upon the greenhouse effect, and the jury's still out on whether all that extra CO₂ will warm things up or spark additional algae growth in the oceans, which will remove even more CO₂ from the atmosphere and create an ice age.

Global warming's the "hip" theory today, but remember we're talking about weather prediction. No scientist is ever willing to be definite about that unless his prediction can't be proven (or disproven) until after he's dead (that way, he has a 50-50 chance of becoming a posthumous "genius").

--Baloo

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[This message was edited by Baloo on March 21, 1999.]

Posted by Chimaera on :

Actually there is a large (and growing) amount of evidence that global warming is not only possible, but is already underway. Of course, global weather is far too complicated to predict accurately, but records from the past several centuries indicate a noticeable warming trend in the past century, especially in the past few decades. Arctic ice is melting and the ocean is rising (all of these have been well documented). Average temperatures continue to rise.

As for CO2, for every algae bloom in the ocean, a few thousand hectares of forest are cut and burned. As a matter of fact, there is an observatory in Hawaii that measures global CO2 in the atmosphere, and it has been steadily rising for as long as the measurements have been taken, and are far above those before the industrial revolution. So get out there and buy those air conditioners.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, since I've done several reports on the subject, I feel I know quite a bit about it.

There was a global study a couple of years ago. There were several things that I gathered from it.

1. The Greenhouse Effect causes Global Warming, which, does not make an all over general warmer conditions. What it does is make the weather become more extreme. In an area where one would get snowstorms, those storms will get worse as time goes on. Or, in an area where its dry, it'll be dryer as the years go by.

2. Greenhouse effect is essentially correct. Greenhouse gases, CO₂, water vapor, and methane, absorb heat that's been reradiated from the earth, which is then sent back down to the earth. More CO₂ to heat up the earth(and oceans), the more water vapor, which heats up the earth, which creates more vapor, etc. So once it starts, it'll be tough stopping.

3. As to whether or not humans are perpetuating this "Global Warming", well, we are. but its so insignifigant, we might as well not worry about it. The amount of CO₂ produced by one Volcano eruption is so huge compared to what humans put out, there's really nothing we can do. We are all still dependent on this earth, and its direction.

PS: That huge hole in the Ozone layer above Antarctica? That's natural too. Humans didn't do it, and we certainly can't fix it right away, either.

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[This message was edited by Jeff Raven on March 21, 1999.]

Posted by Chimaera on :

Hmmm..... That's interesting. I'd like to know where (and when) that study came from, Raven, because according to all the data I've seen (and I'm in environmental engineering, so I've come across it a few times) some of what you found out is, well, wrong.

Global warming does raise the overall temperature (by 0.5 C so far), and is due to human activity. People around the world pump out around 10 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere every year, while volcanoes account for CO2 emmissions of only 100 million tonnes annually. From the research I've seen, there is little doubt left that humans are indeed responsible for global warming, and that it is already underway. Ditto for the ozone hole, the link to man made CFC's has been proven rather conclusively, with high altitude measurements and so on. A nobel prize was awarded a while ago to the scientist (whose name escapes me) who discovered the reaction whereby ozone is destroyed by CFC's.

There are, of course, a few scientists who doubt global warming, but as far as I can tell they're being drowned out by a lot of the data that's being collected.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

That humanity affects its environment cannot be doubted. That we are currently producing effects on a global level is also undoubtable. What is up for debate is the ultimate effect such alterations will have.

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

With things going as they are, we'll all have destroyed ourselves by then, either killing ourselves or each other in nuclear warfare. The global warming situation won't matter much then.

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Posted by DT (Member # 80) on :

YEAH! Nuclear warfare baby!!

Come on Russia, launch those sons of bitches!

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