Winter Sucks, But at Least I Had Heat - Page 3

Elspode · 12-05-2006, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JayMcGee

culture shock.

I guess you guys are talking fahrenheit...... over here, even old fuddy-duddies like me have moved to celsius. However, I am intrigued - one of you guys was in Missouri, which I'd always figured as 'hot' state. Do you really have such temperature variations over there? I know Canada does (I have Brit emigree friends there) but I did not know that the more southern states also experienced this.

Missouri is hot and humid in the summer, cold and mostly dry in the winter...and some combination of the two, sometimes in a 24 hour span, the rest of the year. Occasionally, just for fun, we like to throw a major flood or an outbreak of tornadoes.

dar512 · 12-06-2006, 12:29 AM

It's remarkable how toasty 33F feels after teens and twenties.

Elspode · 12-06-2006, 07:07 AM

Got a full sized, chock-full, pickup load of wood delivered last night for $60. I'm pleased. Gonna be toasty warm here next time it actually drops below 30 outside.

Iggy · 12-06-2006, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

culture shock.

I guess you guys are talking fahrenheit...... over here, even old fuddy-duddies like me have moved to celsius. However, I am intrigued - one of you guys was in Missouri, which I'd always figured as 'hot' state. Do you really have such temperature variations over there? I know Canada does (I have Brit emigree friends there) but I did not know that the more southern states also experienced this.

We are indeed talking fahrenheit. It would probably be better if we went to celsius, but that probably will never happen. Here in Kansas we have huge variations lots of times. I always thought it was just Kansas, but it looks like many states have the same thing happen to them. It is just the way the weather goes. From what I understand, it is mainly the coast areas that don't get the large variations but as I have only ever lived in Kansas I do not know for sure if that is really the case.

We get really hot in the summer and cold in the winter. We have regular highs in the nineties and hundreds in the summer, but because of the humidity it feels even hotter. The winter usually gets in the teens with wind chills below zero. We have about one month of good weather twice a year in the spring and summer. lol

morethanpretty · 12-06-2006, 01:34 PM

It was 3 degrees short a record high (in the 80s!) the day that temps dropped to below freezing and we had sleet. It was crazy...but thats Texas for ya!

busterb · 12-06-2006, 09:09 PM

Boy I love this dry cold weather. Yeah right. We're about 17" short of rain this year. When you run around the house in sweats and go to load heater. You can hear the pop and see the spark. Wish I knew how to set up camera to get the shot.

Griff · 12-06-2006, 09:12 PM

I think I know where your 17" fell, man its wet here. Snow tonight btw!

JayMcGee · 12-06-2006, 09:24 PM

Thanks for that map, Griff. That really brought it home to me. Over here, tnhough we think we have more than our fair share of rain, we have nothing like the temperature variations that seem to occurr across most of your states. I guess you colonials

JayMcGee · 12-06-2006, 09:26 PM

are indeed a hardy race. It seems our emmigration policy was more successful than we hoped for.

12-06-2006, 12:29 AM	#2
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	It's remarkable how toasty 33F feels after teens and twenties. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

12-06-2006, 07:07 AM	#3
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Got a full sized, chock-full, pickup load of wood delivered last night for $60. I'm pleased. Gonna be toasty warm here next time it actually drops below 30 outside. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-06-2006, 01:34 PM	#5
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	It was 3 degrees short a record high (in the 80s!) the day that temps dropped to below freezing and we had sleet. It was crazy...but thats Texas for ya! __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

12-06-2006, 09:09 PM	#6
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Boy I love this dry cold weather. Yeah right. We're about 17" short of rain this year. When you run around the house in sweats and go to load heater. You can hear the pop and see the spark. Wish I knew how to set up camera to get the shot. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

12-06-2006, 09:12 PM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I think I know where your 17" fell, man its wet here. Snow tonight btw! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-06-2006, 09:24 PM	#8
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	Thanks for that map, Griff. That really brought it home to me. Over here, tnhough we think we have more than our fair share of rain, we have nothing like the temperature variations that seem to occurr across most of your states. I guess you colonials __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

12-06-2006, 09:26 PM	#9
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	are indeed a hardy race. It seems our emmigration policy was more successful than we hoped for. __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

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