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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 31, 2015, 10:51:10 am ---I'm constantly daydreaming about moving to some warmer state, and really the only thing that stops me is that I don't have work anywhere warm and most of my friends and family are here.
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I hear a lot of people say that.....I don't think that's something I could ever do, I like the change of seasons too much.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on January 31, 2015, 02:57:46 pm ---I hear a lot of people say that.....I don't think that's something I could ever do, I like the change of seasons too much.
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Having spent almost all of my life in some of the most extreme climates in the country -- Minneapolis, Duluth, New Orleans -- I feel like I could pretty easily live without season changes at this point. So if someone offered me a job and a condo in San Luis Obispo I'd take them up on it. But my ideal climate would be somewhere sort of in the middle, like Virginia or Maryland, where there's winter but it's mild.
If I could just pick anywhere in the country to live -- and friends and family and job weren't issues -- I would pick Norfolk, Va. The climate is mild, it's on the ocean and whenever you refer to your city you get to say "fuck."
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 01, 2015, 05:46:34 pm ---The climate is mild, it's on the ocean and whenever you refer to your city you get to say "fuck."
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 01, 2015, 05:46:34 pm ---But my ideal climate would be somewhere sort of in the middle, like Virginia or Maryland, where there's winter but it's mild.
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So-called mild winters just annoy me. Or, I should specify, I'm taking mild to mean rain for precipitation rather than snow. I've had enough of that right here in the mid-Atlantic, gloomy, gray, damp, rainy weather that goes on for-ever, with the temperature in the 30s F but not cold enough for snow. I like a winter that's a real winter--but with a summer that's mild and not stinkin' hot.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 01, 2015, 08:47:39 pm ---So-called mild winters just annoy me. Or, I should specify, I'm taking mild to mean rain for precipitation rather than snow.
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Actually I meant mild by Minnesota standards. So, a little snow, high temps mostly in the high 20s and 30s and maybe 40s, with occasional dips into the teens. A 50-degree day would be uncommon but not surprising. And winter ends by March or so.
Or even mild like Denver, where it can get bitterly cold and blizzardy but then be in the 50s or even 70s the following week.
As opposed to Minneapolis, where last year we had something like 29 days in a row with temps below zero, by January the snowbank on my driveway was above my head and to shovel it I had to heave snow six feet in the air, and Ground Hog Day (which is today, BTW) is a joke because there's almost always six more weeks of winter.
This winter is much better -- high temps in January mostly hovered around 30 and there's a drought so although there's snow on the ground it's not deep. But this is an unusual year.
But the sun's out today so I guess winter's going to continue through at least mid-March.
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