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TexasBuck;1869146; said:
Same here today. I haven't seen 40 degrees since Tuesday morning. I might as well move back to Ohio.

the main reason i've never been that far north?
i fucking hate cold weather.

i live on the damn gulf coast of louisiana. in the goddam marsh.
it's supposed to be hot, and really humid with mosquitoes the size of buzzards swarming around my head.
this winter bullshit is starting to piss me off.
 
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Nutriaitch;1869336; said:
the main reason i've never been that far north?
i fucking hate cold weather.

i live on the damn gulf coast of louisiana. in the goddam marsh.
it's supposed to be hot, and really humid with mosquitoes the size of buzzards swarming around my head.

Funny thing is, that's exactly why I have no interest in heading south other than during the winter months. Too fucking hot and humid for my tastes most of the year. And if you go out southwest, it's not humid...it's just 110 degrees in the shade. Dry heat, my ass.

I actually like having four seasons of weather. It's whatever one is used to, I guess.
 
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Jake;1869477; said:
Funny thing is, that's exactly why I have no interest in heading south other than during the winter months. Too [censored]ing hot and humid for my tastes most of the year. And if you go out southwest, it's not humid...it's just 110 degrees in the shade. Dry heat, my ass.

I actually like having four seasons of weather. It's whatever one is used to, I guess.

Give me 100 degrees and humid every day from the beginning of May through the end of September. I'm willing to deal with the heat in exchange for a mild winter. Houston is getting the worst of all worlds the last two years. (Not to mention hurricane risk) If I wasn't in the energy industry and Houston wasn't the energy capital of the US, my house would be for sale. F the cold. Too bad global warming was a sham.
 
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I could see myself someday spending 2-3 months in the winter down south but I'd definitely be back up here by Spring. It gets plenty hot here in the summer.
 
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For 46 years i lived in snow cause i had to. It was a of life and i accepted it.
After the snow we looked forward to Feburary and March. But that was way
back in the 60's and 70's but now back up in the midwest you don't warm up
until May. I think that global warming is causing all this change.

I would be willing to bet that the state of florida could be underwater in the next 50 years. The sun use to really shine bright 20 years ago but now here in florida
it is damp and damn cold more than ever. The electric bills are going sky hi here in the south because of the electric heat pumps trying to put out more energy than they were built for. I was content to pay an electric bill of 180 dollars but now they are up into 3 and 400 dollar range for some homes. Something is taking place along with global warming that we may not be aware of. I just don't understand are weather patterns anymore.
 
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Weather is awful down here. I went down to Pine Island, south of Tampa, to fish for Snook and Redfish. Its 74-degrees and I'm canoeing in these rivers catching fish left and right.

I hate life in the dark winter months of February. :wink:

Enjoy those blizzards you Northerners.
 
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kippy1040;1869536; said:
For 46 years i lived in snow cause i had to. It was a of life and i accepted it.
After the snow we looked forward to Feburary and March. But that was way
back in the 60's and 70's but now back up in the midwest you don't warm up
until May. I think that global warming is causing all this change.

I would be willing to bet that the state of florida could be underwater in the next 50 years. The sun use to really shine bright 20 years ago but now here in florida
it is damp and damn cold more than ever. The electric bills are going sky hi here in the south because of the electric heat pumps trying to put out more energy than they were built for. I was content to pay an electric bill of 180 dollars but now they are up into 3 and 400 dollar range for some homes. Something is taking place along with global warming that we may not be aware of. I just don't understand are weather patterns anymore.

FYI, the global warming label is a misnomer. It is much more accurate to call these increasing climate issues "global climate change". On a global scale, the temperatures will rise. But on a meso- and micro-climate level (aka, on a local setting) temperature, precipitation and other patterns will possibly change drastically, and not just in a "warming" direction that the term global warming implies.

What does this mean? In general, the humid rain centers today will become drier and colder. The deserts will get cooler and rainier. The polar regions will get warmer.

Essentially, all "typical" weather behavior is shifting to more violent and unpredictable patterns. The "extreme" climates, like the rainforest, the desert, the polar regions will experience the most drastic shifts and those in the middle will shift from what was known as normal to something else.

If you refrain from thinking that carbon levels increasing only leads to hotter temperatures and that, it will actually just change the "normalcy" of your weather patterns, then you may be able to adapt better in the coming years and seasons.

Some places in the world will become quite pleasant to live in due to climate change. And the "paradises" of the world today, may become the deserts and shit-storms of tomorrow.

People point to a cold storm event in the winter and say shit like "see: this storm proves that global warming is bullshit" but if you are aware of the actual science, you would know that the colder, violent winter storms and what not is actually predicted by many of the various hypotheses of climate change ecology.
 
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Diego-Bucks;1869553; said:
Weather is awful down here. I went down to Pine Island, south of Tampa, to fish for Snook and Redfish. Its 74-degrees and I'm canoeing in these rivers catching fish left and right.

I hate life in the dark winter months of February. :wink:

Enjoy those blizzards you Northerners.
Love fishing for those prehistoric bastards. :banger: Using shrimp?
 
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Love fishing for those prehistoric bastards. :banger: Using shrimp?
No, I'm throwing power bait on a few different patterns of crayfish and killifish. I caught my first keeper sized redfish yesterday! Cooking him up tonight...

In a month or so, I'll switch to live shrimp for redfish. Probably going to hit up Cedar Key hard. Loving it! I need a boat or kayak though to hit up those grass flats.
 
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Diego-Bucks;1869553; said:
Weather is awful down here. I went down to Pine Island, south of Tampa, to fish for Snook and Redfish. Its 74-degrees and I'm canoeing in these rivers catching fish left and right.

I hate life in the dark winter months of February. :wink:

Enjoy those blizzards you Northerners.

While I am tired of moving snow (driveway, roof, path to the woodpile), I have caught some nice fish through the ice this year. There's a solid 22" of ice out there. I've caught three Crappies over a pound, and a bucketful of 10"+ yellow perch.

Then again, to achieve 74 degrees I'd need to spend $300 a month on propane. Enjoy the warmth, I'm sure you deserve it.
 
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Diego-Bucks;1869558; said:
FYI, the global warming label is a misnomer. It is much more accurate to call these increasing climate issues "global climate change". On a global scale, the temperatures will rise. But on a meso- and micro-climate level (aka, on a local setting) temperature, precipitation and other patterns will possibly change drastically, and not just in a "warming" direction that the term global warming implies.

What does this mean? In general, the humid rain centers today will become drier and colder. The deserts will get cooler and rainier. The polar regions will get warmer.

Essentially, all "typical" weather behavior is shifting to more violent and unpredictable patterns. The "extreme" climates, like the rainforest, the desert, the polar regions will experience the most drastic shifts and those in the middle will shift from what was known as normal to something else.

If you refrain from thinking that carbon levels increasing only leads to hotter temperatures and that, it will actually just change the "normalcy" of your weather patterns, then you may be able to adapt better in the coming years and seasons.

Some places in the world will become quite pleasant to live in due to climate change. And the "paradises" of the world today, may become the deserts and shit-storms of tomorrow.

People point to a cold storm event in the winter and say shit like "see: this storm proves that global warming is bullshit" but if you are aware of the actual science, you would know that the colder, violent winter storms and what not is actually predicted by many of the various hypotheses of climate change ecology.

well my home town gets the same shit every year going back several generations.

324 days of hot and humid with a lot of rain and hurricanes mixed in
about 10 days of decent weather
about 10 days of not cold enough to snow, but cold enough to turn this rain into sleet.

on average, we get 2-5 days a year cold enough for legit snow.
but they almost never coincide with any precipitation.

'89 was the last time we had a true snowfall (where it actually accumulates).
before that was when my dad was a kid.


I can handle the heat and humidity without a problem.
i don't adapt to the cold real well though.
 
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about 10 days of not cold enough to snow, but cold enough to turn this rain into sleet.
Which is the real problem with Ohio, not snow.

Ice is miserable, messy, melts quickly and floods, refreezes, can be invisible, is very dangerous to walk or drive on.

Snow is beautiful, melts slowly, is quite visible, is often quite safe to walk or drive upon, assuming plows are proactive about handling it, and it doesn't pile up and get packed down for days.

100 plows is far too few plows to handle such a large area like Columbus, and it's why roads build up into packed down luge tracks when only a few inches fall. This is even worse on the side streets, and this underwhelming plowing only causes Ohio drivers to go even more insane at the sight of the white death falling from heaven.

Until the last couple of weeks, this was the second straight winter of a wonderful departure from the usual ice-belt of I-70, trading in the ice storms for fluffy snow most of the winter.

It pays to be 5-10 degrees colder and turn that heavy slush into light powder.
 
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