Weather Reports are lop-sided.

dingbat

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Re: Weather Reports are lop-sided.

You want to hear moaning and complaints about the weather? Go downtown Washington DC any day in July and August. The toursit do nothing but complain about how hot and humid it is. Can't wait to get back home

Here is todays humidity map. Nothing like 95 degrees with 90% humidity with a stiff 3 mph wind out of the south :D:D
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^^^^^^
You see that green spot just above Great Falls MT, I am in the upper left of it and its hot and muggy today.

Washington aint got much on us today.
 
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Philster said:
As for Boston: Yeah, you got Colonialism and all that, but as long as you know Philadelphia owns you in that category, we can be friends.
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I don't know if OWNS is the right word... After all, this is where the $**+ ultimately hit the fan, plus the birth place of the Navy. Let's just say we were all on the same team, you you guys were the home of the team captains. ;)

I mean, cripes, ya go the fargin' sports teams -- I'll give you that!
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Yeah yeah.. currently the most second best teams right now though..

I'll toss in a case of Yuengling, but it won't be no sissy Light Lager. Ya gotta have the real stuff.
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You have a deal!!! Never understood why they don't ship that stuff further north then NY... But what ever.
I'd offer to send one of our brews as a good faith exchange, but I know for a fact you guys have Harpoon, and SammyA down in at least the Philly area. I know this, because I drank at least a 6 packs worth on South Street one night. :p

Oh yeah... The matter at hand.
Why is the weather sensationalized? As Phillster said, dense population per square mile. LOTS of hot asphalt. Nasty old broiling hot triple deckers in the inner city's. Mostly older homes built in the suburbs long before central A/C was a reality. An aging power grid that reminds us of it's age when everybody has their window A/C's humming away, and all the sudden the lights go out. The simple fact that we go from negative temps to sometimes triple digits with high humidity with in a relatively short amount of time. Oh.. and with the multiple cars, heat, humidity, and blow over from other states mixing and churning together above our heads, the air quality really SUCKS when it's steaming hot out. To the point where some with lung conditions like asthma, or COPD need to be hospitalized, and some don't make it.

Is it like this in other states outside the states of the east coast? I'm not denying the probability, but I would assume given their geographical location to ours, perhaps it is more often then not, and the people have adapted better to the constant.

I know for one thing though... Whenever I see that a region of the south or lower Midwest gets a few inches of snow that brings them to their knees for a week, I always chuckle and think a couple of inches of snow? Ice you say? We have feet of snow cleared with in 24 hours of a storm, and the street is bare dry pavement. But then it occurs to me, we have the means and have adapted to deal with this sort of weather, those folks don't.

Could we adapt a little better to the heat? Maybe... But then we'd have nothing to b***h about.... :D:p
 
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Re: Weather Reports are lop-sided.

RogersJetboat454 said:
I don't know if OWNS is the right word... After all, this is where the $**+ ultimately hit the fan, plus the birth place of the Navy. Let's just say we were all on the same team, you you guys were the home of the team captains. ;)


Yeah yeah.. currently the most second best teams right now though..



You have a deal!!! Never understood why they don't ship that stuff further north then NY... But what ever.
I'd offer to send one of our brews as a good faith exchange, but I know for a fact you guys have Harpoon, and SammyA down in at least the Philly area. I know this, because I drank at least a 6 packs worth on South Street one night. :p

Oh yeah... The matter at hand.
Why is the weather sensationalized? As Phillster said, dense population per square mile. LOTS of hot asphalt. Nasty old broiling hot triple deckers in the inner city's. Mostly older homes built in the suburbs long before central A/C was a reality. An aging power grid that reminds us of it's age when everybody has their window A/C's humming away, and all the sudden the lights go out. The simple fact that we go from negative temps to sometimes triple digits with high humidity with in a relatively short amount of time. Oh.. and with the multiple cars, heat, humidity, and blow over from other states mixing and churning together above our heads, the air quality really SUCKS when it's steaming hot out. To the point where some with lung conditions like asthma, or COPD need to be hospitalized, and some don't make it.

Is it like this in other states outside the states of the east coast? I'm not denying the probability, but I would assume given their geographical location to ours, perhaps it is more often then not, and the people have adapted better to the constant.

I know for one thing though... Whenever I see that a region of the south or lower Midwest gets a few inches of snow that brings them to their knees for a week, I always chuckle and think a couple of inches of snow? Ice you say? We have feet of snow cleared with in 24 hours of a storm, and the street is bare dry pavement. But then it occurs to me, we have the means and have adapted to deal with this sort of weather, those folks don't.

Could we adapt a little better to the heat? Maybe... But then we'd have nothing to b***h about.... :D:p
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The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to approximately 750 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. I was there, it was hot, I was flabbergasted that people just sat in the heat until they died. There are ways to stay cool.

I get a kick out of the Weather Channel talking heads, especially when they are all concerned about the Minneapolis forecast of 2-4" of snow. First off, no one in Minneapolis even blinks at 2-4".

Meanwhile, just 80 miles up the road we can be getting a dumping of 26", and not a mention at all.

Oh wait a minute, The Weather Channel is broadcast from Atlanta, 2-4" is a blizzard to them.
 
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You think you have problems. I am in SC where 90 degrees is a cool spell. When I was growing up we thought central air was fans in open windows haha Back then thought you could leave your "winders" open without worry of being murdered. Temps were in the 80s many nights and being murdered was the least of your worries haha
 
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Re: Weather Reports are lop-sided.

rbh said:
^^^^^^
You see that green spot just above Great Falls MT, I am in the upper left of it and its hot and muggy today.

Washington aint got much on us today.
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That's today but....it will still be that way in Washington 4 months from now.

Living under the influnece of the Bermuda high has it'a advantages in the winter time but it suxs in the summer.
 
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