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We Have Snow!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=Asriel]We Have Snow!!!!!!! [/QUOTE]lucky bum!!!
God, how I *hate* the Canadian wet coast winters...

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.

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.

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

Try this.

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

thanks a buch fable

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.

[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. [/QUOTE]
An alternative way to fables: here
It works for basically any unit you can ever imagine : example

OMG!!

We should all bow down and praise Google

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.

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.

Now we have thunder and lightning

but my ears hurt (it was really loud)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!"

[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.

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*.