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Misc 2018 Banter & Venting Thread

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MichaelJ said:
I have a friend who lives in Philly and he says it is not a bad city if you are comfortable hating on everybody and wishing you could kill over half of them.
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That's what it seems like in Atlanta every time I'm there! :(
 
ATLwxfan said:
It might as well by July in a slow hurricane season around here.



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Well, Fab Feb isn't going to deliver anything this year, that's why. The models all have bad verification and nothing fun to look at. Only thing to look at is that SER that's going to build in and deliver Feburnuary.
 
Fab Feb even sucks around here. Sure its freezing cold but no big snows. Got about half inch or so last night, maybe another half inch tonight, and another inch tomorrow night. My best snowfall of the year will end up being the December storm in Georgia. Its not worth getting all this cold if all we ever get are 1-2 inch events.
 
ForsythSnow said:
Unfortunately, I know of 0 summers in which that has happened. The cooler summers had lots of rain with them, and the drier summers were droughts and torches. We need a wet summer to take care of this drought.
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Yeah, I think this summer might be wet

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SoutheastRidge said:
Wet summers = more mosquitoes. No thanks !
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Dry summers = more drought, lower lake levels, and the annoying water restriction news. They also mean higher water bills and higher heat and an overall warmer summer. I feel like we could see a wet summer, but it sounds like hurricane season is going to be chaotic, so the chances of seeing an inland system cold be up again. I don't want another Irma though. that was bad. Just give us a weak depression that harms nobody and is slow moving, so it dumps several inches.
 
I'm revising my play calling and punting deeper, like til the end of the month..... hoping for a miracle March. March 1-2, 1980 please
 
Unfortunately I don't think cold truly kills bugs (I've read about it, but I can't remember where). For the most part I haven't seen bugs outside for a while but I did hear one during the earlier warmup.

That crazy cold actually damages fruit plants and the last thing that I want to see is the March 2017 cold snap part 2 after winter ended (except there was pretty much no winter at all in 16/17, just an extended fall). Killed our blueberries for that year and the Florida fruit crop was pretty much gone due to it.

I've also been hearing birds now. It's weird but with yesterday being so dreary and drizzly even after the main rain left, I went outside and I was hearing the birds go through their songs still. I think they think the worst of winter is over and truthfully that might be true.

But like I said, you're not combining dry with average to below average in the summer in the south, you can forget about it. It's either or and you're giving up something in one case, and for me I'd rather give up the high temps for the humidity unless it's just plain insane.
 
Well even I the most cold weather bias person on here have to admit it’s not looking good for any accumulating snows in the near future. That doesn’t mean we can’t get lucky with one big storm as I never give up completely until the 2nd week of March. Either way it’s been a great winter so anything more will be a bonus. I did get to see more snow flurries last night which was the third time this week so that was nice. As for now I will enjoy the below normal temps for this week because it’s looking more and more likely we see above normal temps in 5-6 days.
 
GeorgiaGirl said:
Unfortunately I don't think cold truly kills bugs (I've read about it, but I can't remember where). For the most part I haven't seen bugs outside for a while but I did hear one during the earlier warmup.

That crazy cold actually damages fruit plants and the last thing that I want to see is the March 2017 cold snap part 2 after winter ended (except there was pretty much no winter at all in 16/17, just an extended fall). Killed our blueberries for that year and the Florida fruit crop was pretty much gone due to it.

I've also been hearing birds now. It's weird but with yesterday being so dreary and drizzly even after the main rain left, I went outside and I was hearing the birds go through their songs still. I think they think the worst of winter is over and truthfully that might be true.

But like I said, you're not combining dry with average to below average in the summer in the south, you can forget about it. It's either or and you're giving up something in one case, and for me I'd rather give up the high temps for the humidity unless it's just plain insane.
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I work outside everyday and bugs last year were relentless, whereas this year they are pretty much nonexistent. Surly it's weather related
 
metwannabe said:
I'm revising my play calling and punting deeper, like til the end of the month..... hoping for a miracle March. March 1-2, 1980 please
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For my sake I hope it's after March 8th because that's when I leave for Ireland.

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Jimmy Hypocracy said:
I work outside everyday and bugs last year were relentless, whereas this year they are pretty much nonexistent. Surly it's weather related
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I've read that they "hibernate" and come back when temps moderate...Phil has also said somewhere in Banter (either this or last year) that mosquitos are absolutely terrible in the Michigan UP in their summers.
 
Storm5 said:
No cold or snow in sight and my stocks are getting rocked today
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The Dow has already come up 800 points from the low of today! It was 1,600 down and now is only 800 down! So, some folks who went long just for today have made boatloads.
 
pcbjr said:
Sounds like a PNA or a snow forecast for this month in our neck of the woods ... LOL
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Nice analogy!

What likely intensified today's drop was algorithmic based selling: computers rather than people. Program based trading comprises a large portion of trades these days.
 
GaWx said:
Nice analogy!

What likely intensified today's drop was algorithmic based selling: computers rather than people.
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Sounds like a Sunday CPC model.
Actually, I think it's an overdue correction, since inflation has not been on anyone's radar (a good lesson on short-sightedness)
 
GaWx said:
The Dow has already come up 800 points from the low of today! It was 1,600 down and now is only 800 down! So, some folks who went long just for today have made boatloads.
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Haha yep and the overreacting has been priceless. It's not even down 10 percent off of last months high.

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I agree this correction of the last few days has been overdue and probably healthy for the longer term assuming it doesn't continue for too much longer. I'm thinking it would become a pretty good buying opportunity (I don't just mean for a day trade) if it were to go down to near 22K.

It ended up back down to -1,175 though even that is over 400 off the day's low.
 
lmfao the MJO Phase 8 thing we had for a while in the February thread reminds me of "Voldemort" from a long time ago from when I was still lurking at the old board. That thing had what looked similar to a March 1993 redux for a while and then just went completely away from it. We were all doing happy dances because of Phase 8 and now it looks like we might only get it for a little while if at all.

Outside of the upper south I think we may be done and may get a typical Nina February after all.
 
GeorgiaGirl said:
lmfao the MJO Phase 8 thing we had for a while in the February thread reminds me of "Voldemort" from a long time ago from when I was still lurking at the old board. That thing had what looked similar to a March 1993 redux for a while and then just went completely away from it. We were all doing happy dances because of Phase 8 and now it looks like we might only get it for a little while if at all.

Outside of the upper south I think we may be done and may get a typical Nina February after all.
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I can recheck the stats but I doubt that the average phase 8 duration is more than about 5-6 days based on a full rotation occurring on average within 40 days at most.
 
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