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JuicyLucy

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She can hear a pin drop a mile away. I can almost hear the .45 Colt go off when I pull the trigger. Sometimes it is really hard to have a conversation when you can only "hear" someone by watching their lips move.

I made Mr Juicy go get a hearing test - turns out he's just been ignoring me for the last several years :facepalm:
 

The Cromwell

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Our governerator said we are just soft for calling off school for barely above zero temps and -15 or so wind chills..

Now this is KY where almost no one esp children have proper extreme cold weather clothing...
Just not worth it for the one week total out of the year when it may be needed...

Heck they are not even delivering mail today....

I have cold weather gear and I am wussy and not going out any more than I have to today.

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The Cromwell

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I think the local weather station is whacked.
Shows 8 deg and 46% relative humidity....

I can vouch for the 8 deg and 10-15 mph wind though.
 

Draconigena

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Of course local weather is whacked. Always has been; always will be. For example, I have a mailing address of Faith, SD, so everyone assumes they can look up the weather in Faith and that is what I have. Sorry, not true. First, Faith is almost 30 miles east of my location and a few hundred feet lower in elevation. Second, Faith is a village of less than 400 people. There are no weather persons there. There is a remote sensor at a dirt airstrip east of town for temp, humidity, and wind speed and direction, but no human observers or forecasters. It knows when it is raining, but cannot tell you how heavy the rain/snow//hail is or what percentage of the sky has cloud cover or what kind of clouds (stratus? cumulus? cumulonimbus mammatus?). The nearest RADAR/doppler is 100 miles SW of Faith (Rapid City airport) and, due to Earth's curvature and numerous hills between here and there, is never accurate that far away. The sensor data gets stuck into the computer as if it was a real observation. It is far from it. OK, reality check. We have a digital thermometer here that records highs and lows until you reset and has an accuracy of 0.1 ºF. Our low temp this morning was -7 ºF and today's high was +5 ºF (for about 5 minutes anyway, then it took a nose dive). The current temperature here is +2 ºF and still falling, with a 30 mph wind, which makes for a chill factor of -23 ºF. If you look up Faith right at the moment, the remote claims it is +5 ºF with a 11 mph wind, so the chill is only -10 ºF. No way is their remote sensor an accurate representation of the weather at my house.

P.S. I spent 6+ years in the USAF as a weather observer and weather forecaster. The computers we used were in our heads and the trigonometry was a pencil on paper. There were no desktop computers and forecast models or remote sensing equipment. We relied on human beings with knowledge and logic. Today's forecasts do not involve logic and any humans who might be involved simply do not give a damn about the accuracy of their computer model. If your weather is wrong, they don't give a rat's ass because it does not in any way affect their paychecks.
 
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JuicyLucy

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Peachy Don - how you and all the phart phrends tonight?
 

DonBaldy

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I'm doing alright. Just had a spam and fried egg sammich for dinner and vaping on the new Reuleaux RX gen 3 dual and the dead rabbit rta.
 

The Cromwell

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A toasty 19f here right now, supposed to get up to freezing tomorrow and supposed to be up to 60 Monday.
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JuicyLucy

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Believe it or not, we actually hit 38 °F today with a light breeze and I was outside without a coat or even a jacket. Toasty! Supposed to be even a couple degrees warmer tomorrow, then it crashes to sub-zero for several more days. Oh well...

After subzero 38 does seem warm, lol
 

The Cromwell

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All relative, I felt ok for a bit outside while taking the garbage with just a flannel shirt and flannel lined slacks.
 

Jimi

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Well thanks Don, I am doing pretty good tonight, i hope you are doing good buddy.
 

DonBaldy

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Well thanks Don, I am doing pretty good tonight, i hope you are doing good buddy.

Not too bad. Been driving all over today. Took mom to get a new TV and get it set up for her then had to drive almost 100 miles one way to pick up my son and some of his fellow scouts from a canoeing camp out.
 

Draconigena

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Think I will go tomorrow evening while the Stupor Bowl is going on.
Not so crowded.
Except in the electronics section where Wally World customers who cannot afford that 8-foot plasma TV are pretending they can but need to preview it by watching the stupid bawl.
 
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