2023 Worldwide Weather Thread.
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Shanazel
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Quarter to 12, have both the old mellophone and the "middle aged" cornet lying out, ready to make some noise at midnite. A/C is currently running...
Turkey...
Shanazel
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Woke up to the expected snowstorm this morning though it hadn't started when we went outside at midnight. More fireworks than usual last night, maybe because it was a calm, pleasant lull before the storm. My greyhound-mix puppy girl doesn't like loud noises, be they thunder or fireworks, and spent some time cowering against my legs. The other two dogs don't seem more than a bit curious about the phenomenon.
Showed my husband the noisemakers. He particularly admired the old cornet.
Showed my husband the noisemakers. He particularly admired the old cornet.
Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
1962 Cleveland by King "Superior" cornet. Paid a whopping $3.25 for it, then dumped right about $200 into the thing. I now have a good playing and straight cornet that might be worth $50! Blow-by-blow about it, including links to videos: http://www.doubleveil.net/cornet/
Don't miss the outtakes at the end of a couple of the vids!
As for weather, its 75 outside so we opened the windows, something we can't do all that often and only about this time of year. I'm inside cooling off from working on the car - that darn Florida sun just GLARES down...
Blow-by-blow about it, including links to videos: http://www.doubleveil.net/cornet/Don't miss the outtakes at the end of a couple of the vids!
As for weather, its 75 outside so we opened the windows, something we can't do all that often and only about this time of year. I'm inside cooling off from working on the car - that darn Florida sun just GLARES down...
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Shanazel
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I am just about to run out of relatively polite rude names for you, Zorba.
We have maybe eight or ten inches of snow. Watching the neghbors trying to get out of their driveway provided a few minutes of entertainment earlier today. People that rent that place don't realize that what looks like a gentle incline in the summer is really the slippery slope from hell in the winter. Once upon a time, the slope provided many minutes of entertainment when some guys were running a chop shop in the building out back and couldn't escape in their gutless muscle cars when they heard the cops were on the way. We've had a better class of renters over the last fifteen or twenty years, thank goodness.
We have maybe eight or ten inches of snow. Watching the neghbors trying to get out of their driveway provided a few minutes of entertainment earlier today. People that rent that place don't realize that what looks like a gentle incline in the summer is really the slippery slope from hell in the winter. Once upon a time, the slope provided many minutes of entertainment when some guys were running a chop shop in the building out back and couldn't escape in their gutless muscle cars when they heard the cops were on the way. We've had a better class of renters over the last fifteen or twenty years, thank goodness.
Shanazel
Moderator
Yeah, it looks like winter out there again today. No idea how much snow we actually got since the wind has scoured off some areas and drifted others waist deep. Still snowing and blowing. I'm not sure we can get to the pavement today. Unless some emergency comes up, I'm not even going to try. I have been a real house cat the last few days, curled up in my chair in front of the fire while my husband bustles around doing snow removal and bringing in wood. So much of my work involves sitting in front of a computer or sewing machine that I have to force myself to get up and go outside on weekends like this one. And I will get up and go out... but not yet.
Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
Out in the garage lacing a new leather steering wheel cover on the old MBZ. This is the 2nd time I've had to come in to cool off, but it seems to be cooling down a bit now, 79...
Steering wheel cover lacing is a bit tedious, but its going better than the last time I did this 20 years ago - my corset hook REALLY helps!
Steering wheel cover lacing is a bit tedious, but its going better than the last time I did this 20 years ago - my corset hook REALLY helps!
Greek Bonfire
Well-known member
A week ago here it was so cold and this week it's in the fifties. That's enough to really throw a person off!
Shanazel
Moderator
Still winter here with heaps and piles and drifts of snow everywhere. I think we can probably get to the pavement today, but I also think I might not try. I'm awfully happy holed up here in the house, though I may take The GIant Puppy for a stumble through the drifts later on today.
Greek Bonfire
Well-known member
I am so sorry. Losing a pet is just as devastating (and sometimes more) as losing a human.
Shanazel
Moderator
Thanks, Focia.
Today started out clear, 22 degrees, and relatively calm, but half an hour ago the wind came up and tons of snow are being relocated as I write. The museum's entrance ramp was perfectly clear when I arrived at 9. It is now covered with 1 to 2 inches of drifted snow. I hope no visitors will be forthcoming. The college grounds crew is probably run off their feet right now and I am too underpaid to shovel three or four hundred square feet of sloping and icy cement.
Today started out clear, 22 degrees, and relatively calm, but half an hour ago the wind came up and tons of snow are being relocated as I write. The museum's entrance ramp was perfectly clear when I arrived at 9. It is now covered with 1 to 2 inches of drifted snow. I hope no visitors will be forthcoming. The college grounds crew is probably run off their feet right now and I am too underpaid to shovel three or four hundred square feet of sloping and icy cement.
Shanazel
Moderator
Melting today. Last night I didn't quite make it to the top of the hill on my usual route home- car bogged down within a few feet of the top. I backed up downhill for a block and went home down a different road. Yes, I knew better than to take that route during drifting weather, but I just... kinda... wanted to see... if I could... make it.
Now I know.
Now I know.
Shanazel
Moderator
The breeze is howling here in the wind tunnel today. Sustained wind is around 40-45 mph with gusts up to 65 mph. I had a "special weather statement" in my email this morning that informed me, "Strong winds can blow around loose objects." Even more than I want to know who writes this stuff, I want to know who needs to read it. Right now, we're waiting for the roof on the neighbor's long neglected barn to fly away. Heaven knows, it's about as loose as anything in this area.
Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
Getting better now, just a head cold.
Greek Bonfire
Well-known member
There's a really nasty flu going around and even people who were vaccinated are getting it, which goes to show you how strong it is. Covid cases are up again but at least there is an antedote for it; however, long term effects are something to deal with. But I have to say that sinus infections also leave long term effects if you get them enough. Someone recommended ten years ago that I start taking echinacea and it did lessen how many times I get them now.