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Misc 2017 Banter/venting thread

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pcbjr said:
At this rate you'll have alligators in the French Broad River next month ... LOL

(and I'm not talkin' about FL tourists!!!)
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Lol that reminds me...
I saw this the other day and I seriously can't believe it... This gator is trying to ring the doorbell, lmao.
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was just thinkin' about years gone by -

the sun did not shine.
it was too wet to play.
so we sat in the house
all that cold, cold, wet day.

i sat there with sally.
we sat there, we two.
and i said, 'how i wish
we had something to do!'

too wet to go out
and too cold to play ball.
so we sat in the house.
we did nothing at all.

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Had to give in and turn on the AC. Had the windows open and ceiling fans on, but my wife said she was hot. Gotta keep the wife happy so she'll be hot later on.
 
packfan98 said:
I have found that the IGNORE USER feature works great on this forum. Out of sight, out of mind. There no excuse for anyone who chooses not to act politely, but the Ignore button can prevent some anxiety.
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That's what the troll spray is for, if something goes out of hand, I'll put them on ignore - virtually using my troll spray.

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One thing this winter had done, it's made me glad I'm not an IU fan Ranked as high as #3 early in season, now barely over 500 lol
 
pcbjr said:
Interesting IMBY facts -- LOL

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SAV got a rare 1" from this. But I've been trying to figure out if Gainesville got snow on 2/13/58. Do you know? It appears unlikely except perhaps for some northern suburbs. Here's why:

I see that Apalachicola got 1.2". I see that Lake City got snow (0.44" was mainly from "melted snow"). No surprises there.

Now, closer to Gainesville:

High Springs got 1/2" of snow:
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-42E23D9D-1AAF-4098-B6EE-645C533B4456.pdf

Starke got 30 minutes of light snow:
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-5D3F0DF1-D553-461D-A06F-A49ACCBCF0FC.pdf

But this station 3 miles WSW of Gainesville didn't indicate snow anywhere (it shows a high of 58, low of 29 and 0.34"):
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-75540E39-0856-4A88-AFF6-2607139C0BEC.pdf

Also, none of Palatka, St. Augustine, Cross City, and Cedar Key indicated any snow.

Conclusion: snow got at least down to a line from High Springs to Starke. Perhaps some northern suburbs of Gainesville like yours were near the southernmost point.
 
GaWx said:
SAV got a rare 1" from this. But I've been trying to figure out if Gainesville got snow on 2/13/58. Do you know? It appears unlikely except perhaps for some northern suburbs. Here's why:

I see that Apalachicola got 1.2". I see that Lake City got snow (0.44" was mainly from "melted snow"). No surprises there.

Now, closer to Gainesville:

High Springs got 1/2" of snow:
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-42E23D9D-1AAF-4098-B6EE-645C533B4456.pdf

Starke got 30 minutes of light snow:
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-5D3F0DF1-D553-461D-A06F-A49ACCBCF0FC.pdf

But this station 3 miles WSW of Gainesville didn't indicate snow anywhere (it shows a high of 58, low of 29 and 0.34":
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-75540E39-0856-4A88-AFF6-2607139C0BEC.pdf

Also, none of Palatka, St. Augustine, Cross City, and Cedar Key indicated any snow.

Conclusion: snow got at least down to a line from High Springs to Starke. Perhaps some northern suburbs of Gainesville like yours were near the southenmost point.
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Those are Jax readings from NWS Jax I posted! I was too young in 1958 to even remember the way out of the crib! Lived in Jax in those days. Have no idea what happened in Gainesville, except that the football team probably sucked!

Post Script -
My posting karma is apparently not good today - I'll bow out for a while :confused:
 
pcbjr said:
Those are Jax readings from NWS Jax I posted! I was too young in 1958 to even remember the way out of the crib! Lived in Jax in those days. Have no idea what happened in Gainesville, except that the football team probably sucked!
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I know they were from Jax. I was just curious about the most southern latitude of the snow from this system and figured you might have heard about snow in Gainesville in 1958 if it had occurred due to living there for quite awhile. Also, when I said that perhaps snow got down to your northern suburbian area, I didn't mean to imply I thought you were actually there then or necessarily even alive then.
 
GaWx said:
I know they were from Jax. I was just curious about the most southern latitude of the snow from this system and figured you might have heard about snow in Gainesville in 1958 if it had occurred due to living there for quite awhile. Also, when I said that perhaps snow got down to your northern suburbian area, I didn't mean to imply I thought you were actually there then or necessarily even alive then.
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See what I mean about my karma today! Can't communicate worth a hoot. Oh well!
My neighbor is 72 and he remembers it (snow that is) FWIW
 
pcbjr said:
See what I mean about my karma today! Can't communicate worth a hoot. Oh well!
My neighbor is 72 and he remembers it (snow that is) FWIW
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That's ok as that's the internet!

This is great stuff! Was your neighbor living in the same northern suburb of Gainesville in 2/1958?? Does he recall whether it stuck and if so, about how much accumulated? As of now, the furthest south I've been able to find that it stuck is the 1/2" at High Springs. Your neighbor's report could bring the sticking snow line even further south.
 
GaWx said:
That's ok as that's the internet!

This is great stuff! Was your neighbor living in the same northern suburb of Gainesville in 2/1958?? Does he recall whether it stuck and if so, about how much accumulated? As of now, the furthest south I've been able to find that it stuck is High Springs.
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we are in the Millhopper area (far NW) - you probably recall the vicinity - 15 miles to High Springs, and his house is the one he grew up in and he says it stuck - this was all farmland then (and when I bought my place, there was no Millhopper - except the sink hole, and 43rd going north was 2 lanes and then stopped as a dirt road!)
 
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Every time we get a frontal passage to cool us to near seasonable levels, within a couple of days we're back to temps in the 70s.
 
pcbjr said:
we are in the Millhopper area (far NW) - you probably recall the vicinity - 15 miles to High Springs, and his house is the one he grew up in and he says it stuck - this was all farmland then (and when I bought my place, there was no Millhopper - except the sink hole, and 43rd going north was 2 lanes and then stopped as a dirt road!)
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Thank you! That confirms it. The 2/13/1958 sticking snow actually made it to some of the northern suburbs of Gainesville! From all that I've checked, I don't think sticking snow made it to Archer Road.
 
GaWx said:
Thank you! That confirms it. The 2/13/1958 sticking snow actually made it to some of the northern suburbs of Gainesville! From all that I've checked, I don't think sticking snow made it to Archer Road.
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what sticks on archer road is not snow - at least not the kind we're talking about ... truly LOL
 
BTW... Lt Gen Hal Moore passed away yesterday in Auburn<AL. He was 94... Those who may not know, he was portrayed by Mel Gibson in "We Were Soldiers"
 
It's 40 degrees and raining here in northern middle Tennessee. If only it were 8 degrees colder. Oh well here's a fun article on some past winter weather in Nashville that I would have loved to experience.

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Trying to stir up some conversation and most of the maps I've looked at get nowhere in a hurry (leading to absolutely nothing productive to contribute) ... but this one does give a pretty good idea of the Pac/SW evolving into late month -- possibilities, anyway

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Talk about being jealous. Yes, that is a lamp post. What a rotten winter this has been.

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SD said:
Good to see our ideas are so popular
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Sometimes when your going down faster than the titanic you have to try everything to keep from sinking even if that means stealing ideas. Don't be shocked to see an honorary boat captain at some point....
 
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