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[iJohnE]

Well, welcome to Pulaski NY. Winter, which ended about 2 weeks ago, we got about 15 feet of snow. It'd been hovering around 40 degrees lately, but it's still shorts and flip-flop weather for me.

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[richard mitnick]

Thank you, young man.

Be sure to let us know if anything weird, or beautiful, crops up there in Pulaski, NY.

>>RSM

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[James]

Not up to Antony's... but here are Tuesday's temperature grid for NA in terms of the high temperatures.



Couldn't get the color schematic to take! RATS!

Dark red= 90+ and each lighter shade drops by 10 degrees F until we reach the dark green= 30 +

Yeah... I know... just doesn't cut it! RATS!

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[richard mitnick]

James-

You did a great job!!

>>RSM

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[Fulvio]

It has been warmish, in Omaha. Two days of highs of 81, but yesterday evening we had some thunder and rain. This morning it is a so-so day with highs about 70.
It has been stormier, and hotter (the two go together) a short distance south.

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[Antony]

The weather forecast has been quite inaccurate recently. 7News' fill-in weather reporter Monique Wright apologised on Tuesday for the rain that morning which wasn't forecast, then on Wednesday (yesterday), just before she started she said sorry for the rain she forecast which did not come.

I haven't noticed any other weather reporters making this sort of apologise on not-so-accurate forecast.

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[richard mitnick]

The U.S.A. used to have up three weather satellites, and we got very accurate forecasts.
Then, we lost two of them. The French offered one, we did not take it.

Now, we can not count on even 48 hours of accuracy. Maybe we get 36.

What I do, we have weather.com. It has a radar view. So, if I am going hiking or cycling in the next day or two, I start recording any green blobs of rain, and how fast they are moving. That does give me a good picture of what to expect.

We can direct our missiles and unmanned fighter and bomber aircraft in Iraq from somewhere in the mid west of the U.S., but we cannot get accurate weather. How is that for spending the taxpayers' money...

>>RSM

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[Lorraine]

Hi all:
I live near Montreal...... I never want to see another winter like I just experienced this past winter.. We had Snow, snow and more snow, over 300 cm's. Sometimes I was up to my waist in snow clearing the pathway, about 12 -15 ft. I have a contractor remove the snow in front of the temp. carport which is about 6 feet from the road.

A few years ago they bought a $43,000,000. machine to tell the weather.
THEY STILL CAN'T GET IT RIGHT!

Now we are supposed to be in Spring, well it isn't too bad outside right now, however they are forecasting rain later today....
We had rain yesterday, it was cold the previous days, it's still
pre-spring to me......

Everything is a mess in my backyard. I had some stumps removed, it's not too bad, I think I'll plant a few tomato plants in one of the places. The man told me they should grow well, but I have to wait until the 24th to plant them. It could freeze still after that.

As for spending the taxpayers money, Governments are experienced spenders.. :)
-Lorraine

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[Ramona]

The weather in the St. Louis, MO area has all four seasons. Known for its high humidity, the summers are extremely hot, muggy, and miserable. We have 100+ temperatures, and with the humidity it makes you fall to your knees in appreciation for central air-conditioning. I live in a small city West of St. Louis, and just a mile from the Missouri River. St. Louis is located on the Mississippi River, but between the Mighty Mississippi, and Missouri River - thus much humidity!

Winter can be the exact opposite with below 0 temperatures, snow, sleet, sneet, and freezing rain. Due to global warming, however, our winters are milder, with only a few major show dumps. You name it, we have it!

We recently had a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in St. Louis and surrounding areas. My windows shook, my bed moved, there was a very loud rumbling sound, and I hit the floor running. I lived in CA for three years, so I knew it was an earthquake, but still it was frightening. We've had a number of aftershocks, the worst being a 4.5 the same morning as the earthquake.

The quake was the result of the moving apart of two tectonic plates along the New Madrid fault, well-known to St. Louis area residents. But instead of being along the main fault line, primarily along the Mississippi River, it originated from a spur known as the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone. The epicenter was in Bellmont, 127 miles east of St. Louis.

The New Madrid Fault is a weak spot in the center of the country caused by the stretching millions of years ago of the earth's surface, the North American Plate, along the fault lines in California and on the mid-Atlantic ridge. Therefore, we have and will continue to have earthquakes...

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[richard mitnick]

Lorraine-

You are our first non-staff contributor from outside the U.S.A. We are delighted to read of your misery, knowing that it is not ours, and telling you to come on down.

Seriously, Montreal is a wonderful city, two cities.

And, Montreal was written up a few years ago as having the best snow removal anywhere, with a budget of three times that of New York City.

Anyway, you know we are not really delighted when anyone is miserable about anything. We are glad to have you tell us a bit about your world.

>>RSM

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[richard mitnick]

Ah, but Ramona,

You have Albert Pulholz!! and we in the NYC area are jealous jealous jealous.

I had always heard about a fault line mid-continent, you gave the best description of it that I have ever read.

BTW, I just did get a new download of Music Match 10, it worked perfectly on one XP machine and would not install on the other.

But the one good install allowed me something I really wanted:

MM10 under Tools has an export utility so that you can get an Excel file of your library. If you have any interest, let me know.

>>RSM

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[iJohnE]

It is officially a record. It is now 80 outside right now! Woo-hoo! Not to mention my trip to NYC is tomorrow, so I hope this nice weather sticks around.!

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[Lorraine]

Ramona, My dog is acting very strange today and I was wondering if we were going to have an earthquake. She cowers when outside and runs back inside. It's very windy today.

Montreal and area is on a fault line also.. I heard on the radio, on Tuesday, that we were going to have a bigger earthquake than the one in 1732 in about a year.

I haven't had time to check it out and find out how big it was, but a few years back we had a 4.7 when I was at the lake. It was very windy that day, and in the evening I was sitting on the chesterfield and a raccoon climbed up a cedar tree, it is very tall, about 100 yrs old or more.

I said to my daughter: "That raccoon must have rabies or something, it's climbed up the tree in that wind." About 20 mins. later, there was a huge bang so I went looking outside thinking someones propane tank had blown up. I don't have propane. I thought I would see flames, but didn't... just a shaking house. The house shook, my daughter said, "Mom, it's an earthquake." The epicentre was about 100 miles away..

I hope my dog isn't cowering because it's the big one they are predicting will hit next year, bigger than in 1732, that will hit tonight

We also get hot humid summers..End of June and July...sometimes August too.... I don't have A/C though. I usually spent my summers at the lake, I don't go as often now. Most everyone I know has died or moved to another province. We get all kinds of weather and long winters....

-Lorraine

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[Lorraine]

Lorraine-

You are our first non-staff contributor from outside the U.S.A. We are delighted to read of your misery, knowing that it is not ours, and telling you to come on down.

Seriously, Montreal is a wonderful city

Richard:
Well I don't live in Montreal, I was born there though. I agree Montreal is a beautiful, wonderful city in the summer.

I live North of Mtl. They didn't have very good snow removal this year in Mtl., it just kept falling and they didn't have anywhere to put it... Finally they put it in the Turcotte Yards....that's near the river....so it will all run and pollute the river a little more.

They did have very good snow removal but not this year......
The city I live in does around where I live very well. They of course blow all the snow on my lawn, but the street is wide.
I have a very wide driveway and a temp. carport and I get a contractor to remove the snow in front of it.

I thought my temp carport was going to collapse this year, but it didn't. It's like a tent, white, made of a fibreglass sorta material
I was up to my waist removing snow off of it, and I nearly lost my boots... getting stuck in the snow. It was snowing nearly every day and then at least one big snowstorm a week, sometimes two. Over a foot of snow that had drifted.. It was bad here.....but it's all gone now.....

-Lorraine

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[emoreira]

Hi All :

I live in Argentina, Buenos Aires.
We are now leaving Autumn. Days are becoming shorter and shorter and cold weather is also coming.
It's unusual to see snow in this city, but last winter it does snow for one day.
perhaps we are in the news these days because of the Chaiten volcano located in our neighbor Chile and wind is always blowing from west to east throwing ashes over our countryside.
Winters are not so cold. Minus 2 to 5 celcius degrees in winter and plus 35 ~ 40 in summer.
This is not a rainy nor windy city, however in winter it´s usual to see weeks of rain.
Buenos Aires is over the La Plata river, one of the widest rivers in the world, though it's not deep nor clean. Waters are dark brown owing to sediments and pollution. The river is closed for swimming, but open for sailing and sport navigation, besides of commercial navigation.

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