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kewlkid382
24-01-2003, 15:38
I just got home from school. Right before I left, I heard everyone talking about what happened during lunch. Someone please tell me if it is true. Right here, under the tropical skies of south florida, did it snow today?
It hasn't in Pennsylvania (today...in my area, at least...)
Katie Reynolds
24-01-2003, 16:42
... It's snowed here in Appleton < 3 times. There is no snow on the ground. It is really cold. :(
- Katie
Ryan Dognaux
24-01-2003, 16:54
In Indiana, we've had 2 hour delays it has been so cold, it was lke - 8 yesterday, and the snow from about a week ago is still on the ground. It's cold almost everywhere right now.
IsabelRinging
24-01-2003, 16:54
No.
It drizzled.
No one here knows what snow looks like, and drizzles combined with the wind blowing around sand... yeah, you get it.
I wasn't there, but my friend's Spanish class started freaking out when it began to "snow" and ran outside to look. Heehee.
But really... it's too cold. Twenty-nine degrees? IN SOUTH FLORIDA?!?! Brrrr.
Katie Reynolds
24-01-2003, 17:23
But really... it's too cold. Twenty-nine degrees? it has been so cold, it was lke - 8 yesterday
Aww man - I wish it was that warm here! It would be in the 10s without the wind here. But with the windchill, it has been as cold as -15 :(
Someone send us your warm weather! :D
- Katie
Originally posted by IsabelRinging
No.
It drizzled.
No one here knows what snow looks like, and drizzles combined with the wind blowing around sand... yeah, you get it.
I wasn't there, but my friend's Spanish class started freaking out when it began to "snow" and ran outside to look. Heehee.
But really... it's too cold. Twenty-nine degrees? IN SOUTH FLORIDA?!?! Brrrr.
THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR!!!!!!
If Florida is sub freezing, we are all doomed
Cory
FotoPlasma
24-01-2003, 17:54
Originally posted by Cory
THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR!!!!!!
If Florida is sub freezing, we are all doomed
Cory
Tigerbolt log, check the timestamps, all times PST
Jan 23 23:51:55 <George1083> eep... 30 degrees here
Jan 23 23:52:09 <Jim258> George, how is that legal?
Jan 23 23:52:14 <Jim258> 30degF in Florida?
Jan 23 23:52:17 <Bill258> lol
Jan 23 23:52:17 <George1083> i know
Jan 23 23:52:32 <Jim258> the 4th law of thermodynamics:
Jan 23 23:52:41 <Jim258> it never gets below "warm" in Florida
kewlkid382
24-01-2003, 17:58
It is supposed to get warmer by tomorrow. I am cumfortable in the 90 to 110 degree range weather. I like the summer because of that. I hate the winter when it is like 70 degrees outside. It's like you aren't even in florida anymore. They say that the earth is slowly getting warmer. Then, why is it getting colder here. I have lived in florida all my life and it has never been this cold.
Melissa Nute
24-01-2003, 18:01
Actually....a part of jax got a tiny bit of snow...not my side of though....oh well
Kristina
24-01-2003, 18:04
I envy you all, its 85 here right now. Its January and everyone's walking around campus with tank tops/shirts and shorts. I may be a So Cal girl but I'm still a Minnesotan at heart.
Andrew Rudolph
24-01-2003, 19:17
its cold here, plus we have 80% humidity, and its gusting at like 30mph! Luckily we have the warm florida sun to keep us from freezing. :D
-45 degree windchill here...
Come to Sunny Potsdam and as you walk to class you can freeze your butt...
Raven_Writer
24-01-2003, 20:18
I live in Michigan (by the Detroit River/Detroit), and it was 1 degree at 7:15 a.m. yesterday, not sure about today. It hasn't been that low in like, 9 years or something.
OneAngryDaisy
24-01-2003, 20:31
do you floridians know how very spoiled you sound? Most of us would be happy to have that kind of weather everyday!
Raven_Writer
24-01-2003, 20:33
Originally posted by OneAngryDaisy
do you floridians know how very spoiled you sound? Most of us would be happy to have that kind of weather everyday!
I love snow, but it never works in my favor (a.k.a.: no snow days gosh diddly-darnit!)
Warren Boudreau
24-01-2003, 20:53
These kids down here do sound a bit spoiled. If you want some of our "warm" weather, would you like to take our hurricanes, palmetto bugs, and mosquitoes too?
For those of you who have not experienced a palmetto bug. It is sort of like a wingless cockroach. On steroids, after nuclear radiation, with an attitude. I stepped on one once and it tripped me.
Please, take all you want.
I don't think it's snowed in my area of California for over half a century, at least. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers.
Originally posted by Warren Boudreau
These kids down here do sound a bit spoiled. If you want some of our "warm" weather, would you like to take our hurricanes, palmetto bugs, and mosquitoes too?
For those of you who have not experienced a palmetto bug. It is sort of like a wingless cockroach. On steroids, after nuclear radiation, with an attitude. I stepped on one once and it tripped me.
Please, take all you want.
Oh the joys of palmetto bugs...I can remember waking up and having one on my face and 5 on the wall beside me...needless to say, I hate those suckers.
Thank goodness I moved to the wonderful mountains of Virginia...right.
kewlkid382
24-01-2003, 21:29
Warren forgot to mention the tornadoes and...oh ya, don't forget the flooding...my neighborhood floods every time we get a hurricane, which is like once or twice a year. We are also the only place in the world to have both alligators and crocodiles in the same place. (Everglades and Florida Bay) Do you know what it is like to be in your boat on the weekend and pull up alongside a brownish-colored, log-shaped gator that is just staring at you. I have a lake in my backyard and it is full of alligators. I don't understand why people like florida so much, especially the older crowd who always complain about the heat. These older people don't even care about their environment. They leave trash on the beach. It's like they think "Well, we lived our lives, paying taxes all these years. Now we are going to trash the place and make our succeeding generations clean up. We can't watch where we are going backing out of our driveway." It is my opinion that once you get to be a certain age, enough is enough. Stop driving! Ok...I am really of topic.
Come down to florida and enjoy our tourist traps. (Disney World,
etc.) I am done lecturing now.
hixofthehood
24-01-2003, 22:22
It was 41 and raining and I was outside. That's the closest we've been to snow in forever. 10 degrees off. Usually it's so dry and clear when the freezes come. (lol...when the freezes come)
Last night I think it dropped to -8 with a windchill of -27. I'd be glad to have 20 degree weather... I'm not positive, but I think the snow that's on the ground is the leftover from Christmas. The only thing I don't like about snow is the extra time it takes to get places...10 minutes to warm up the car (not to mention the 20 mins while driving waiting for the engine to get warm enough to make heat), then taking 5-15mph off the speed limit so you don't die. Snow days aren't all they're cracked up to be, either...they actually suck. We lose one of our summer days...and delays graduation. Two hour delays are okay...but once you get to school, classes seem twice as long as they did on a normal day. Getting out of school early is nice...all morning classes, eat lunch, go home. The best one is: two hour delay...go to school...have 2 classes and lunch...then have school get shut down. Now THOSE are good days. They count as full days :P
Raven_Writer
25-01-2003, 07:49
Originally posted by hixofthehood
It was 41 and raining and I was outside. That's the closest we've been to snow in forever. 10 degrees off. Usually it's so dry and clear when the freezes come. (lol...when the freezes come)
I thought you got snow at 32 degrees (Farenheit [sp?])
hixofthehood
25-01-2003, 08:21
41-10=31
Yes, I merely rounded due to the fact that it was probably more like 41 (and a fraction of a degree). That way if I said "9" degrees away, it would come to 32 and some change, and it wouldn't freeze. Hope that clears things up.
I just looked at the paper. Three record lows were broken in South Florida, plently of people thought that they saw snow, and sprinklers everywhere were forming ice.
Raven_Writer
25-01-2003, 08:53
Originally posted by hixofthehood
41-10=31
Yes, I merely rounded due to the fact that it was probably more like 41 (and a fraction of a degree). That way if I said "9" degrees away, it would come to 32 and some change, and it wouldn't freeze. Hope that clears things up.
Oh, ok...yea, it clears it up. Michigan is snow-state....I hate snow right now.
EddieMcD
25-01-2003, 16:41
Snow is your friend... Here in RI, it hasn't gotten above freezing in a little over a week. No precipitation to go with that though.
Personally, I love the cold. I can't stand it in Arizona. When I was there in July, even at night raining, it was about 85. Thank god the airport was air-conditioned. And I never got my ice cream!
here we got about 2 inches of snow in about 8 hours...which doesn't sound like a lot to you northerners, but to us in this little town where the weather is always fairly decent...the snow practically shut down our town...we only have like 2 snowplows...we've had 3 days out of school, two of them back-to-back and only for 1 or 2 inches of snow...kinda sad, huh??
EddieMcD
25-01-2003, 20:10
Originally posted by sky547
here we got about 2 inches of snow in about 8 hours...which doesn't sound like a lot to you northerners, but to us in this little town where the weather is always fairly decent...the snow practically shut down our town...we only have like 2 snowplows...we've had 3 days out of school, two of them back-to-back and only for 1 or 2 inches of snow...kinda sad, huh??
2 inches?!?!? It has to be least 4" for us to even have a delay.
Jeff Waegelin
25-01-2003, 20:20
Originally posted by EddieMcD
2 inches?!?!? It has to be least 4" for us to even have a delay.
Even 4" is nothing for us here. We've gone to school on days after 8" snows. It's all about timing. If the snow doesn't stop until morning, the plows don't come out in time for school. As long as it's still snowing hard, the trucks don't come out. Then, it freezes before they get to it, and school gets canceled for two days.
OneAngryDaisy
25-01-2003, 20:44
Originally posted by sky547
here we got about 2 inches of snow in about 8 hours...which doesn't sound like a lot to you northerners, but to us in this little town where the weather is always fairly decent...the snow practically shut down our town...we only have like 2 snowplows...we've had 3 days out of school, two of them back-to-back and only for 1 or 2 inches of snow...kinda sad, huh??
amazing.. how could 2'' of snow not melt in three days, especially in a place like tennessee? we could get 6'' overnight and the roads would be clear by the end of the day
kewlkid382
25-01-2003, 22:47
You guys have snow days. Well we have hurricane days. Snow days are the days off due to snow. Hurricane days are days that we have school to make up for cancelled school due to a hurricane. Well, I have my new 2003 hurricane tracker map. It is an internet version. I just go online and it shows the paths of tropical storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, or any other tropical weather. We also got some new ground anchors for my boat to anchor it to the ground during a hurricane. Hurricane season is coming up in a few more months. Us floridians have to go get ready. Well, lets build a robot first and then we will worry about it.
IsabelRinging
25-01-2003, 23:10
We haven't had a hurricane day since... Floyd.
And heck, that didn't even hit us.
Andrew Rudolph
25-01-2003, 23:19
Yeah, i know down here last year we had a day off from serious rain. The city was under water!!
Harrison
25-01-2003, 23:38
....It was nice and WARM here today. Only -8.
Yay Toronto!
...and as usual it's snowing.
Part of me loves the cold, another part cannot wait for the 95 degree's of summer :)
Kristina
26-01-2003, 07:38
Originally posted by Harrison
, another part cannot wait for the 95 degree's of summer :)
Who needs to wait until summer, it was already in the 90s here today...we went to the beach. Wow, this weather is not conduisive to studying, it feels like summer!
EddieMcD
26-01-2003, 15:52
Originally posted by kewlkid382
You guys have snow days. Well we have hurricane days. Snow days are the days off due to snow. Hurricane days are days that we have school to make up for cancelled school due to a hurricane. Well, I have my new 2003 hurricane tracker map. It is an internet version. I just go online and it shows the paths of tropical storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, or any other tropical weather. We also got some new ground anchors for my boat to anchor it to the ground during a hurricane. Hurricane season is coming up in a few more months. Us floridians have to go get ready. Well, lets build a robot first and then we will worry about it.
We had a hurricane day in September of 1999. That was a first. And the hurricane that was supposed to hit us bad didn't come near us. We haven't had a bad hurricane since Bob back in 1991. That one was nasty.
Oh, and STAND BACK! (sorry, had to do it)
::does hurricane pose, and flees before anyone can toss something at him::
kewlkid382
26-01-2003, 16:34
I might of exageratted a bit about the once or twice a year thing and I ment hurricanes, not hurricane days. Hurricane Irene was the last to hit here. It flooded my neighborhood and almost flooded my house. My neighbor's carpet was destroyed as well as all of the curtains and furniture. They had thousands of dollars in damage including wood rot to the side of their house. (made of wood) Another neighbor's car flooded and went to a junk yard.
Harrison
27-01-2003, 23:04
The last hurricane to hit Toronto was Hurricane Hazel in 1956.
Specialagentjim
27-01-2003, 23:17
Originally posted by kewlkid382
You guys have snow days. Well we have hurricane days. Snow days are the days off due to snow. Hurricane days are days that we have school to make up for cancelled school due to a hurricane. Well, I have my new 2003 hurricane tracker map. It is an internet version. I just go online and it shows the paths of tropical storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, or any other tropical weather. We also got some new ground anchors for my boat to anchor it to the ground during a hurricane. Hurricane season is coming up in a few more months. Us floridians have to go get ready. Well, lets build a robot first and then we will worry about it.
I seem to recall going outside on the last hurrican day...It wasnt that bad out..kinda nice and peaceful (everyone else was locked up in their house...the news told them that it was dangerous out....naaaaaah).
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