Okay, What Happened to Fall?

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What happened to fall '09? The tempurature fell to 20's over the weekend and barely reaches into the 40's during the day. That is 25 degrees below normal!

Brrrrr! :yikes:
 
Fall is alive and well here in Pennsylvania. We're getting temps in the 50s during the day, although it ends up being pretty close to freezing overnight.

Still, too darn cold. Give me warmer temps, thank you.
 
fall happened in september down here. it was really nice.
 
No accumulation of snow in Madison yet, but western WI is supposed to get an inch or two today. I went soaring yesterday, and I was thinking wether i could just get a 337 to install a Janitrol heater or if it would need an STC :-)

This may be a cold one.
 
vontresc said:
No accumulation of snow in Madison yet, but western WI is supposed to get an inch or two today. I went soaring yesterday, and I was thinking wether i could just get a 337 to install a Janitrol heater or if it would need an STC :-)
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Why would you install a Janitrol heater if you actually wanted a functioning heater? ;)
 
steingar said:
...it gave it a miss and went straight to winter...
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We had an exceptionally nice warm September but then (as expected) the boom (and temps) fell abruptly. Here's the view out my window. The lake is pretty calm but I don't think I'll be waterskiing today.
 

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gismo said:
We had an exceptionally nice warm September but then (as expected) the boom (and temps) fell abruptly. Here's the view out my window. The lake is pretty calm but I don't think I'll be waterskiing today.
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So do you hook up a tow rope to the Ski-Doo once the lake freezes over for winter practice? :D
 
fall will be here tomorrow ... for a few days, at least! enough to thaw out my sprinkler heads that I didn't get shut off in the 2 days between summer and winter last week.
 
Fall passed us up too. Lows dipping down to 60 and even 56 early this morning. The heater is cranking out the BTUs now. Looks like a bitter 50* winter comming up. (bracing for gas bill. Rather be cold then pay, but not my call :( )
 
I don't trust air I can't see. I mean, what's your clear air trying to hide?
 
Geico266 said:
What happened to fall '09? The tempurature fell to 20's over the weekend and barely reaches into the 40's during the day. That is 25 degrees below normal!

Brrrrr! :yikes:
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The proper question is where is fall? Its been pushing 90 every day for the last week here in Daytona. Plus, its been humid, so it feels something like July around these parts. I'll gladly trade you.
 
vontresc said:
So do you hook up a tow rope to the Ski-Doo once the lake freezes over for winter practice? :D
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For winter waterski practice I normally head for sunny Florida but we've had good (maybe "good" is exaggerating a bit) skiing weather as late as the third week of October in other years. I often wait until the last week to pull the boats, dock, and lifts out of the lake but I started early this year.
 
I had vowed to not take the blue toy out in a rain or on any wet roads. There are now 435 miles on the new engine. So on October 07 it was a gorgeous day and it needed breaking-in; so I left the house.

Wouldn't you know? I got caught in various stages of rain. On the way home the access road to my elevation was in full Fall bloom. All the way from Bath(7 miles) there was a huge rainbow which, as I arrived at my mailbox, was pointing directly onto my house. Quick! Get the camera! And then it didn't show up in the image. Pooh!

But the Healey had some exercise, anyway.

HR
 

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oldShar said:
You'll have to ask the Global Warming crowd.
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Actually -- the last few years have just been rather warm. It's cold right now -- but it's still warmer than it should be. Not only that -- the global warming itself will cause the melting of ice which creates cold Canadian air making it colder for us. The ice will continue to melt -- California will be under water -- and we'll go into an ice age that will destroy us. We'll see if you're laughing then...:rolleyes2:
 
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Albuquerque doesn't get fall. We go straight to winter.

And to Jesse: LOL. Still laughing.
 
Lawreston said:
I had vowed to not take the blue toy out in a rain or on any wet roads. There are now 435 miles on the new engine. So on October 07 it was a gorgeous day and it needed breaking-in; so I left the house.

Wouldn't you know? I got caught in various stages of rain. On the way home the access road to my elevation was in full Fall bloom. All the way from Bath(7 miles) there was a huge rainbow which, as I arrived at my mailbox, was pointing directly onto my house. Quick! Get the camera! And then it didn't show up in the image. Pooh!

But the Healey had some exercise, anyway.

HR
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Steingar approves of the blue toy. Stop driving it in the rain, Leylands work poorly in wet weather.
 
jesse said:
Actually -- the last few years have just been rather warm. It's cold right now -- but it's still warmer than it should be. Not only that -- the global warming itself will cause the melting of ice which creates cold Canadian air making it colder for us. The ice will continue to melt -- California will be under water -- and we'll go into an ice age that will destroy us. We'll see if you're laughing then...:rolleyes2:
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Didn't you learn anything from The Day After Tomorrow?

LA will have dozens of twister at once (during otherwise calm weather), aircraft will drop like flies as JET-A freezes in mere seconds, and 50' tsunami (weather driven) will flood NY then freeze in under an hour.

I fear this is 2 days before the day after tomorrow.:yikes::rolleyes:
 
I liked the Day After Tomorrow. I thought it was very clever the way they got global warming to actually chase the main characters. And any movie that totals LA can't be all bad.
 
We had summer the week of Airventure this year. Fall started by the 2nd week of August, and then winter abruptly arrived about a week and a half ago.
 
oldShar said:
You'll have to ask the Global Warming crowd.
They did it
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Actually, it's an affirmation. Global; Warming isn't about a great temperature change, it's about just a modest one of a few degrees, mostly in the oceans temperature. The issue is that this adds extra energy into the environment which means larger and more violent swings in the weather, both hot and cold. It's about instability. Look at the western Pacific region for more effect. Wisconsin will see 70+* temps before December again I bet.
 
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