The winter from HELL

Well folks I hope I'm wrong but so far I have been right we are flat in for it this year. As I type this it is a whopping 9 degrees and I have spent most of the morning trying to get equipment running, water fountains unthawed and so on. It is Dec the 12th for goodness sakes. Louisville's average winter snowfall is a little over 12 inches and we are over 8 and we have barely got started. Several more chances in the next three weeks being shown by most models some with nasty potential followed by some of the coldest air mass we have seen here in years.

I don't go by calendar winter but instead use what is termed as Meteorological winter for our geographic location as it holds more true to what we actually experience. That would be a three month winter of December, January and Febuary so we are just getting this ball rolling. 62.2% of the United States has snow on the ground right now, very non typical this early in the year. Anyway I get wordy on this stuff, the long story short, hang on guys this one is going to be bad, if I'm wrong I will be happy but we may break some records before this puppy is over I'm afraid...
What do you guys think?

[QUOTE=mhall;525341]Well folks I hope I'm wrong but so far I have been right we are flat in for it this year. As I type this it is a whopping 9 degrees and I have spent most of the morning trying to get equipment running, water fountains unthawed and so on. It is Dec the 12th for goodness sakes. Louisville's average winter snowfall is a little over 12 inches and we are over 8 and we have barely got started. Several more chances in the next three weeks being shown by most models some with nasty potential followed by some of the coldest air mass we have seen here in years.

I don't go by calendar winter but instead use what is termed as Meteorological winter for our geographic location as it holds more true to what we actually experience. That would be a three month winter of December, January and Febuary so we are just getting this ball rolling. 62.2% of the United States has snow on the ground right now, very non typical this early in the year. Anyway I get wordy on this stuff, the long story short, hang on guys this one is going to be bad, if I'm wrong I will be happy but we may break some records before this puppy is over I'm afraid...
What do you guys think?[/QUOTE]

Better watch it.........the whacko's out there will be talking AGAIN about global cooling.

This is from Time Magazine..the covers in the mid 70's

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I forgot to check the woolly worms...

[QUOTE=Hlleonard;525343]I forgot to check the woolly worms...[/QUOTE]

They are 90% black on the front end or head area followed by a large area, ''most'' just brown in the middle and a small rim of black at the tail...........So far on track, we shall see. The Persimmions had both the knife and the spoon in alot of locations. Folk lore says the knife means very cold and the spoon means alot of snow.

The Deer we skinned had very little fat this year which doesn't make sense to me at all given what we have had so far.
I to Hilleonard like the ole folklore stuff it's fun but usually wrong as all get out, lol.....

Global warming..............I laugh my ass off everytime I think of that ridiculous term. Three days ago there was temp recorded in Antartica that set the new all time low for them ever recorded. It was -135.8 F, yep good thing the polar ice cap is melting......................Puuuuuuuulease...smh

GEO I had a professor tell me in about 1966 that if this cooling trend continued we could not raise corn in Illinois in 50 to 75 years it would be to cold. They are not going to sell me the global warming crap.

[QUOTE=mhall;525341]Well folks I hope I'm wrong but so far I have been right we are flat in for it this year. As I type this it is a whopping 9 degrees and I have spent most of the morning trying to get equipment running, water fountains unthawed and so on. It is Dec the 12th for goodness sakes. Louisville's average winter snowfall is a little over 12 inches and we are over 8 and we have barely got started. Several more chances in the next three weeks being shown by most models some with nasty potential followed by some of the coldest air mass we have seen here in years.

I don't go by calendar winter but instead use what is termed as Meteorological winter for our geographic location as it holds more true to what we actually experience. That would be a three month winter of December, January and Febuary so we are just getting this ball rolling. 62.2% of the United States has snow on the ground right now, very non typical this early in the year. Anyway I get wordy on this stuff, the long story short, hang on guys this one is going to be bad, if I'm wrong I will be happy but we may break some records before this puppy is over I'm afraid...
What do you guys think?[/QUOTE]Look at your calendar again mhall it is not winter until the 21st LOL

I am ready for spring----- I know I know look at my Calendar.

I am afraid you are right on and I hope you are wrong also.

[QUOTE=roadrunner;525352]Look at your calendar again mhall it is not winter until the 21st LOL

I am ready for spring----- I know I know look at my Calendar.

I am afraid you are right on and I hope you are wrong also.[/QUOTE]

Seriously RR most Met's in our area go by the calendar winter to appease and relate to the public but scientifically ''per our geographic location'' they really consider the three month winter to be more accurate and I agree.
Dec, Jan and Feb...........2 and half months to go baby......................SIGH......................

for what it's worth, they are folks that get paid for keeping an eye on climate change. if it's not just my mind, not remembering correct. but I remember as a young boy the creek where I grew up was about 100 ft or so across, and the creek would stay froze over most of the winter, as boys we would play on the ice, and if someone broke through in a thin spot, we would pile wood up and build a fire on the ice, so the wet guy could dry. now the same creek hardly ever gets a thin skin of ice on it. and I don't think Obama is guilty, of causing this change in our weather.

[URL]http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/half-of-the-polar-ice-cap-is-missing-arctic-sea-ice-hits-a-new-record[/URL]

[QUOTE=waterdog101;525357]for what it's worth, they are folks that get paid for keeping an eye on climate change. if it's not just my mind, not remembering correct. but I remember as a young boy the creek where I grew up was about 100 ft or so across, and the creek would stay froze over most of the winter, as boys we would play on the ice, and if someone broke through in a thin spot, we would pile wood up and build a fire on the ice, so the wet guy could dry. now the same creek hardly ever gets a thin skin of ice on it. and I don't think Obama is guilty, of causing this change in our weather.

[URL]http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/half-of-the-polar-ice-cap-is-missing-arctic-sea-ice-hits-a-new-record[/URL][/QUOTE]

That is what I am talking about these idiots that are paid to watch climate change said we were entering an ice age and I agree our winters were much colder then and you proved my point we were not entering another ice age just like we are not experiencing global warming what we have are climate cycles it starts a warming trend and then it reverse itself about every 50 years we are now starting to see the trend starting to cool. we have been in a cooling trend for about 10 years now. When this trend reversed itself the Al Gores of the world called it global climate change and said that the same thing that cause global warming is causing global cooling so we changed the name to global clime change.

[QUOTE=mhall;525354]Seriously RR most Met's in our area go by the calendar winter to appease and relate to the public but scientifically ''per our geographic location'' they really consider the three month winter to be more accurate and I agree.
Dec, Jan and Feb...........2 and half months to go baby......................SIGH......................[/QUOTE]

oh I agree you can't pick a date on the calendar and say this is when fall winter spring and summer start. I have been a farmer and still own land usually if we have a late spring we will have a late fall, seems God always gives us enough time to make a crop. I don't think he worries about the calendar.

They just had a measurable snow in Cairo Egypt for the first time in over 100 years this week.

Where is Al Bore anyway, LOL....

[QUOTE=mhall;525387]They just had a measurable snow in Cairo Egypt for the first time in over 100 years this week.

Where is Al Bore anyway, LOL....[/QUOTE]

Laughing his ass off sitting in his 8000 sq ft house with the thermostat on 78.