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    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Fri Feb 7 07:49:54 2025
    Howling wind, pouring rain for most of yesterday. Temperatures 10
    degrees colder than the day before. Wind so strong it picked up a patio umbrella that was retracted and bound, and deposited it on my roof!

    I'm going to wait until the ground dries before I go up there to
    retrieve it.

    This weekend promises to be back to normal, with higher temperatures and
    sunny skies.



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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 8 08:36:51 2025
    On 07 Feb 2025 at 07:49a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    Howling wind, pouring rain for most of yesterday. Temperatures 10
    degrees colder than the day before. Wind so strong it picked up a patio umbrella that was retracted and bound, and deposited it on my roof!

    I'm going to wait until the ground dries before I go up there to
    retrieve it.

    This weekend promises to be back to normal, with higher temperatures and sunny skies.

    Folks in the North Island of New Zealand have been having flooding issues, near Taupo I think, but here it's a high of 23 Celcius today and sunny blue skies.. Summer has almost arrived here albeit about 6-7 weeks later than usual.

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  • From Nodoka Hanamura@21:1/158 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 8 13:10:49 2025
    We've had some fun weather lately - back in January we got pelted with snow of the likes I haven't seen in *YEARS*. We're talking half-foot of snow. And we might get more soon.

    I for one, love it. I know and can empathize with those who don't (believe me, driving must be hell I bet) but I take pride in calling my self a 'Yuki-Onna' (Japanese 'snow woman' youkai).

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Sat Feb 8 09:06:48 2025
    Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Folks in the North Island of New Zealand have been having flooding
    issues, near Taupo I think, but here it's a high of 23 Celcius today
    and sunny blue skies.. Summer has almost arrived here albeit about 6-7 weeks later than usual.

    None of the norms seem to be applying - most of our winters fall into El
    Nino or La Nina, depending on the trends of the jetstream - one's an exceedingly wet winter, the other is a late, dry winter. We had a wet
    one last year, this year may turn out to be a dry one. Worrisome, since California depends on snowpack runoff for their water, and Trump
    released 2 billion gallons of water from central valley federal water
    sources, ostensibly to address the fires in Southern California, hundreds
    of miles away. The water never made it to SoCal and ended up flooding
    already wet farming areas. We'll miss that water come summertime.



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