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Misc Winter 22-23 Whamby and Banter Thread Part 2

From the Caribou, ME NWS:

The unusual combination of
very cold temperatures in the teens to 20s below zero and
strong winds will create wind chills rarely seen in northern
and eastern Maine as low as 45 to 65 below zero. Most stations
are forecast to see their lowest wind chills in decades or, in
some cases, the lowest ever recorded.
 
I did nothing for mine back in December other than make sure their water was not frozen. They fluff out their feathers and slow down egg production. One of them laid an egg, which promptly froze! They are not broody, so nobody was sitting on it. The water nipples froze closed so I had to give them a tray of water every day. They would peck at it to keep the water from freezing during the day. I tried to place a warmer next to the water tank but it still froze. Still getting between 4 and 12 eggs a day. I have about four dozen eggs right now that I need to preserve somehow.
Look up glassing eggs
 
I moved from TN to NC in 2005. I was occasionally shutout in annual snow totals where I lived, but I’ve never been shutout in the Triad since moving here. I’m afraid that this might be my first year. It’s been one cold rain after the next. Might as well warm up and start planning the garden.
 
I like the NBM. It keeps me from getting my hopes up over a rogue NAM or SREF snow output.
 
The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, but I don’t know how there can be “more” of something that hasn’t happened.
See the issue is y’all didn’t understand him. He meant that winter will start in six weeks from today when you will get a constant dose of 40s for the high for two months before the 90s.
 
heck yeah the groundhog predicted 6 more weeks of 36 degrees and rain around here
Thursday morning, officials at the Dauset Trails Nature Center announced the groundhog did not see his shadow - meaning we're going to have an early spring. Beau's ancestors began predicting seasons on Groundhog Day in 1981.
 
Thursday morning, officials at the Dauset Trails Nature Center announced the groundhog did not see his shadow - meaning we're going to have an early spring. Beau's ancestors began predicting seasons on Groundhog Day in 1981.
Fake news. Enjoy your snow in a few weeks ☃️
 
If it can snow deep into South TX it can snow in the FL panhandle.
Theoretically yes. The problem is the overwhelming pattern for the past decade has been for the trough to progress no further than the central US with the SER ever present, so the cold almost never makes it down this way; with Jan 2018 and Dec 22 being exceptions. I have no idea what it would take for us to start seeing more than just transitional troughs in the East again but it makes it very hard to have cold around long enough to get much frozen. TX to NW AL and TN have been the places to be in the South over the past decade, and few years especially.
 
Looks like it's once again that time of the month week day I get personally attacked by snownut.
I think what bothers me is you speak from a place of knowledge. We do that in this society way too much these days and honestly, it doesnt matter the field. Social media has made all of us feel like we stand on equal ground with knowledge. We shout down the ones with the most education and the most knowledge while exalting those who are just loud.
 
I think what bothers me is you speak from a place of knowledge. We do that in this society way too much these days and honestly, it doesnt matter the field. Social media has made all of us feel like we stand on equal ground with knowledge. We shout down the ones with the most education and the most knowledge while exalting those who are just loud.
I agree but we also tend to almost deify some educated people and that leaves the other side feeling like they have to shout people down. It's good to question everything and everyone but it does need to come with a bit of self education beforehand. We need to be careful not to just accept as gospel those things that align with us which social media has brought about too. I wish I could go back to the 90s before all this crap. I'd still want weather boards but I miss learning stuff from mere hearsay and the library.
 
Climate change my Ass!! I guess you believe in global warming too

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Don’t understand why people are so triggered by [mention]Webberweather53 [/mention] comments on climate change. It’s ok to learn from people who’ve made a career as an atmospheric science expert and have a robust understanding of historical climate data. Luckily he won’t be silenced and will continue to share his wisdom - even if his torch forecast brings me agony.

Global cooling!?


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I agree but we also tend to almost deify some educated people and that leaves the other side feeling like they have to shout people down. It's good to question everything and everyone but it does need to come with a bit of self education beforehand. We need to be careful not to just accept as gospel those things that align with us which social media has brought about too. I wish I could go back to the 90s before all this crap. I'd still want weather boards but I miss learning stuff from mere hearsay and the library.
I agree that educated people are not infallible. However, they should get more credence lent to what they say especially when it comes to their profession. My masters degree is in Library and Information science. I doubt, to pick on @Webberweather53 here, that he would sit here and lecture me about research methods and information literacy. I sure wouldn’t try and lecture him about meteorology or climatology.

To your point, it is absolutely critical that we do not let our biases affect the way we do research and look at the world. Do we all have biases? Absolutely. We’re all human. That’s the first thing I used to teach when I taught info lit courses. As humans, in general, we’re all looking for validation for how we feel. We also don’t want to be challenged on what we believe. That is what drives many people to find bad sources of information because hey, it doesn’t challenge how I feel about a subject. In information literacy, that’s confirmation bias. That goes for both sides of American society, unfortunately. People claim they “do their own research” but couldn’t tell you a primary source from a primary color.
 
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