Posted on 08/25/2013 6:22:52 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Super Bowl in NJ is such a dumbass idea. Yes, football should be played outdoors in all conditions, but in February? If a northern team earns the right to a home field advantage in a January playoff game that is one thing ... but Super Bowl is meant to be a spectacle of football not winter survivalism.
Check this out.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/solar-impacts-on-hurricanes
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Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 2:36 PM GMT on May 13, 2010
I’m in Tucson for the American Meteorological Society’s 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. This is the premier scientific conference on hurricanes, and is held only once every two years, so pretty much all of the world’s greatest hurricane experts are here. One of the more intriguing posters presented at Tuesday’s poster session was titled, Evidence linking solar variability with USA hurricanes, by Robert Hodges and Jim Elsner of Florida State University. They showed that the probability of three or more hurricanes hitting the U.S. during a hurricane season with warmer than average sea surface temperatures increases dramatically during minima in the 11-year sunspot cycle.
(Links given of research papers if you go to the link.)
I give it a 50/50 chance.
In other news, water is wet. Also, it gets dark at night.
“Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
Affecting the grape harvest at wineries and grape growers with potential fungus. Very difficult (friends) for hay harvesting which has locally been non-existent for them— no way to cut then dry the hay to bale it. Also, excessive grass growth when too wet to cut. And super cool as you say— my friends say it is 63 at night in August, late August at that? Whoah.
Also noticing in the runup to peak of hurricane season— no storms off Africa. Peak is Labor day to 10 Sept.
Anybody who puts any stock in the ofa for other than entertainment purposes is foolish.
Thanks, Chauncey. Voting for you for president. Pretty sure we have one right now not too different— TOTUS knows more.
Go Gators.
Wine from this harvest likely won’t be the best, threat of fungus aside. They like a little dry weather and haven’t gotten it. Fescue is loving it, green as Ireland out there when it’s normally tinged a little brown this time of year. But, as you say, getting to it to cut it is a problem.
This has been one of the coolest and rainest summers here in GA that I have ever seen.
You’re strictly viewing it as a day-to-day weather forecast, at which an almanac is of limited value. Broader weather trends are typically fairly accurate. And, for actual farmers it’s followed as far as planting, transplanting, cutting, pruning and harvesting. You’re not a farmer, are you?
It is.. supposed to drop to 61 tonight.. almost unheard of in late August.
We sat out on the deck tonight after dinner and it was really pleasant. I am loving it.
Last I heard it had not reached 93 degrees in Atlanta this Summer. This would be only the 10th time in 140 years of record keeping.
We’ve got those big fat brown spiders that usually pop up early fall over a month later than this, spinning webs over exterior doorways and between shrubs and bushes. I don’t think they’re poisonous and don’t know if they even can bite, but it still gives me the willies walking into their web right at eye level when rushing out the door in the morning, lol. Never knew what they’re called. Just a fat brown spider, prolific builder of webs, especially across exterior doors once the weather starts cooling down.
..and then? Come on, I'm hooked.. :)
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