commando1
Old Man with a Hat
34° last night. That should be our one flirtation with frost for the year. Your orange juice is safe....
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azblackhemi
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Our weather is pretty good here.
azblackhemi
Old Man with a Hat
Yes I do!
Yeah 80* iz livable but what I really wanna know Chris iz how much water doez it take to make flowerz grow there....Not the plastic onez!
azblackhemi
Old Man with a Hat
Quite a bit Jer. I just hope the snow keeps falling in the mountains.
Tink
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The weathermen are calling this rainstorm we are having a "thousand year" event. I've heard it from several different weather reporters. I know someone was here a thousand years ago and meteorologists think of themselves as scientists. I think they rely a bit too much on supercomputers like Watson to make their declarations. Tree rings can as far as I know, evidence a years rainfall, not a weeks worth. We are soaked here.
yup that is an odd observation by the weatherales.
a couple days of heavy rain as a "hundred year" event makes sense (somebody was keeping weather records a century ago and we know its a big El Nino year).
thousand years ago? no indigenous NA peoples keeping track of weather like that. not even the more "advanced" Europeans/Chinese kept such precise track of daily weather either (but again they werent on this continent).
anyway the weatherpeople must have a basis rooted in real observation (maybe geology - core sample analysis?) vs. Watson bangin' variables together at 100 million times a second (or however fast it is).
maybe someone will chime in on how the meteorologists "know" your areas' unusual rain events are that rare.
a couple days of heavy rain as a "hundred year" event makes sense (somebody was keeping weather records a century ago and we know its a big El Nino year).
thousand years ago? no indigenous NA peoples keeping track of weather like that. not even the more "advanced" Europeans/Chinese kept such precise track of daily weather either (but again they werent on this continent).
anyway the weatherpeople must have a basis rooted in real observation (maybe geology - core sample analysis?) vs. Watson bangin' variables together at 100 million times a second (or however fast it is).
maybe someone will chime in on how the meteorologists "know" your areas' unusual rain events are that rare.
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CanCritter
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best winter ever...no complaints no snow....
livininharrow
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please tune up your snow blower again early next year.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Just like here...
livininharrow
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great to see there are none in Canada. I love this country.
tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
Out here it actually rained all day long. Haven't seen that in years. Supposed to do the same tomorrow and Sunday. Could have been a decade since I last saw three straight solid days of rain.
your hunch was right i think. see old link below around SC flooding last year.
statistical analysis (Watson) of probability functions - sophisticated "guesses" based on mathematical frequency predictions of the "odds" of such an event (e.g. temps, snow, rain, etc).
just the weatherales' "headline" without their basis for making it could be a bit misleading. but all that aside, it WAS raining like heck for real - no Watson guesswork required - in your neck of the woods.
'1,000-year' flood: Hyperbole or hard science?
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Fratzog
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We don't get many but they do come through the Windsor to Barrie corridor.
'God spared us': Ontarians survey damage after tornado, intense storms
Tink
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Dang, good find on the article. Very interesting. Here in my neck of the woods, the landscape is flat as a pancake. Not a natural rock to be found anywhere. An ancient seafloor awaiting its return.
the rocks agree with you...ALL of what would become Texas was underwater 90 million ago.
even though it appears to try to come back with all your rain, maybe in another few million years it might really be back (along with some more shale oil possibilities a few million years after that)
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
If I go out back, fill a bucket full of the sand out there and sift it, I can fill a can with seashells, marine fossils, and shark's teeth.
don't doubt it at all. Florida was under shallow salt water seas for 40+ million years.
Diversion (pardon me Tink): i was in Miami (Miami Beach) on vacation, got dragged to see Wicked (the play) at the Arsht Performing arts Center.
Killing time before the show, my friend and I walked around near the water and she pointed out the wall we were next to (100 yards long, 10 feet high, huge cut stones) was made completely of fossilized sea animals.
I thought texture was unusual but did NOT pay attention till she noticed it. looked like this -- wall was apparently constructed of ancient limestones/fossilied coral reefs mined IN Florida.
livininharrow
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