Weather. That's right.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:55 am

We Have Snow!!!!!!!

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:58 am

[QUOTE=Asriel]We Have Snow!!!!!!!

[/QUOTE]lucky bum!!!

God, how I *hate* the Canadian wet coast winters...

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:02 am

It's incredible! We usually don't have snow untill march, so this is really fabulous!

I just hope it's not gone by tomorrow.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:38 am

Snow's not a problem for me personally, but for New Jersey drivers seem constitutionally incapable of understanding it. I think it's part of the 2nd/3rd generation Italian macho culture that affects the state. People drive angrily, egotistically, all the time. And when snow hits, you can see the accidents lined up several miles apart highway shoulders.

53 Fahrenheit and partly cloudy, right now. Too bad we didn't have this weather in the spring and summer: then, it was all clouds. The climate disadvantages of Seattle, with none of the advantages.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:13 pm

Could you list the what Fahrenheit is in Celsius? I get seriously confused, as I haven't a clue about Fahrenheit at all.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:20 pm

Try this.

So 58 Fahrenheit, which it's outside right now, is 14.4 Celsius.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:23 pm

thanks a buch fable

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:25 pm

My pleasure. There were brief efforts made under Carter to move to a metrical scale of measurement and a Celsius thermometer, but it went over about as well as might be expected if you told the British to drive on the right side of the road.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:43 pm

[QUOTE=Asriel]Could you list the what Fahrenheit is in Celsius? I get seriously confused, as I haven't a clue about Fahrenheit at all.

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An alternative way to fables: here
It works for basically any unit you can ever imagine

: example

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:46 pm

OMG!!

We should all bow down and praise Google

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:59 pm

Oooo. That's nice. I wonder if I type "cook chicken saag" whether it will heat my meal, too?

Staying on course, there's a nifty little program up on Stardock's website. They're the folks that do geekish screen-changing utilities and turn-based strategy games (And their CEO is a geek, too. He told me once that he was too busy playing a game to come in as requested and help out at the delivery of his first child. -I have a word for that, but I don't like being critical on the Web.)

Anyway, it's called Natural Desktop. You install the thing, give it your zipcode, and it puts up wallpaper appropriate to the time of day and year in your area. (Not according to your area, though. There are no fantasy castles in New Jersey.) It also plays appropriate nature sounds; and you can click on it to give the current weather conditions, and a five-day brief forecast.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:03 pm

You know the CEO of Stardock? Goddamn it fable, is there anyone of any importance that you don't know?

Send him my best regards

On topic: it is really dark yet again. Subsequently I can obtain no information about the current state of the weather.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:07 pm

Now we have thunder and lightning

but my ears hurt

(it was really loud)

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:28 pm

It's about noon right now and it is all dark and gloomy outside.

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:27 pm

Damn! My joy over the snow was short last, now it's all sleet, It's going to be incredibly slippy tomorrow

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:28 pm

[QUOTE=Asriel]Damn! My joy over the snow was short last, now it's all sleet, It's going to be incredibly slippy tomorrow

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How long does snow stick where you are? As Gwalchmai suggested, the changes where I am might be due more to urban sprawl than ozone layer problems, but decades ago they used to get a snow here in December or January that stayed through March. Now, it does what yours does: turns to grey mush within a day or so.

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:57 pm

Speaking of the Ozone, has anyone heard the theories that volcanoes actually emit for Ozone-depleting chemicals than the world's cars and factories combined? The thing is, if that's the case, and all of that volcanic activity caused the tropical ages of the dinosaurs, then could there be a chance of a change back to a cooler climate? If that really was the case, then Earth changes in way like a person changing clothes, or some such.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:02 pm

I've heard it used as an excuse to do nothing by American industrialists, so I'm inclined to doubt it.

It also sounds a lot like a line Reagan repeatedly used, that there was more pollution from trees than factories. Back in the 1980s, it was possible to see signs tacked onto trees on college campuses, stating "Stop me before I kill again!"

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:16 pm

[QUOTE=Vicsun]You know the CEO of Stardock? Goddamn it fable, is there anyone of any importance that you don't know?[/quote]

Yes, I don't know An San Su Kyi, probably the single living person today whom I respect the most. Not much chance of that happening, alas.

[QUOTE=Vicsun]Send him my best regards

[/quote]

I will, when I speak to Brad, again. He's an awful correspondent.

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:03 am

Today is once again cold. Yesterday a tree has fallen, and destroyed part of the barn ceiling, we spent the whole day fixing it. *sigh*.