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[MaineWriter]

Good morning all,

53 degrees and sort of cloudy and misty out there. My backyard is looking very, very green!

L

[MaineWriter]

Morning all,

39.9 degrees...I guess we can call that 40. Still sort of drizzly out there today.

L

[louisev]

it's to make sure I did not haul back my jacket and fall clothes in vain, David!

[MaineWriter]

41 degrees this morning. Like David said, what happened to spring?

L


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[Sheriff Roland]

Some people get spring mixed up with summer

spring means - no snow - (we have no snow), cool mornings (guess we got that too) and warmish days (mean temterature - highs, fer today is 19*C here, it's gonna be 17*C - sounds close ta the norm)

It seems ta me these do describe spring. It's a lot warmer than a month ago (remember the snow ya got a few weeks ago?)

[injest]

Knowing that we will shortly be in the 100s here; ANY cool morning is welcome!

Dreading summer!

[MaineWriter]

Yes, Roland, that's a good description. I am just missing the sun. We are back to rain and dreary cloudy skies. Louise and I took a scenic drive to Hallowell yesterday and it would have been a whole lot more scenic with blue skies over our heads!

Leslie

[Penthesilea]

I am just missing the sun. We are back to rain and dreary cloudy skies.
Leslie

I know where the sun is. It's back here in Germany  . After one and a half week of rain and cloudy skies, the sun is shining bright again today.
Leslie, perhaps you sent it back across the Atlantic by accident, together with Robert? 

[Scott6373]

40 degrees here, and not supposed to go much higher..  It's been raining since yesterday afternoon, and will continue through tomorrow.  It just seems obscene to me to have the heat come on in May, not to mention painfull in the purse..

[Penthesilea]

Yeah, another rainy day here too. 

Not as sunny as in this picture at Amsterdams Schipol Airport.

Wow, that pic is way cool  .

Mine is not as cool, but the situation was when you experienced it first hand. Where I grew up, the US military had an airfield closeby. And there was a road actually crossing the runway. When you drove along the road it could happen that gates came down, just like if it were a train crossing. But instead of a train, a plane crossed the road right in front of your car   .

The three upper arrows show the road crossing the runway. The arrow in the bottom left is where I lived.



When I was a kid, we played on the runway. Of course it was forbidden and we were shooed away by the army. But that didn't keep us from coming back again and again  .
Later, everything was secured with normal fences, then additionally with barbwire. And armed forces patroled the area.  A few years ago the airfield was closed for planes and is now only used for helicopters.