On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:40:48 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
mike.terrell_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:29:24 +0530, "pimpom" <pimpom_at_invalid.invalid
wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:54:02 +0530, "pimpom"
pimpom_at_invalid.invalid
wrote:
This is not intended to spark off another GW debate. It was
evident that those of you in Europe and N.America have just
had
one of the coldest winters in recent years. I'm curious about
the
temperartures you're currently experiencing now that we're
approaching the middle of March.
53F in San Francisco, 27 in Truckee. It's been a little cooler
than
normal maybe, and a bit wetter. We left Truckee yesterday
around noon
to come back to Da City, and it started snowing as we drove.
They
instituted chain controls that evening and kept them on all
night,
maybe a bit unusual for March.
"Chain controls" means they stop traffic and only let you
through if
you have tire chains or 4WD+snow tires.
Looks OK now.
http://www.magnifeye.com/
John
Still like that in March? What was it like in January?
We pretty much get all our precipitation in a small number of winter
storms, which arrive erratically. Our summer water supply is melting
snowpack and whatever we can capture in reservoirs. January had a
couple of big storms, as I recall. I don't know if there's any
longterm trend here; it's so erratic that patterns are hard to spot.
But it looks like long, hot showers will be OK this year; I get most
of my best ideas in the shower.
It's snowing again!
http://video.dot.ca.gov/asx/d3-Jct89-80.asx
The local idea of snowplowing is to push the bigger drifts sort of to
one side of the road and pack the rest down. So you're driving on a
few inches of kinda-packed snow.
I had someone ask me if I knew where to get snow chains, in Ocala,
Fl.
Swamp chains?
