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The storms that came through last night did not do much where I am but south of me, they caused downed trees and outages.
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High heat is gone.
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High heat is gone.
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That's okay, it came here. Going to 97° F. today.
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That's what is is like for me APR - SEP.....
Did I mention that I work in a giant metal box...
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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And this is why I am NORTHland10. The snow doesn't bother me. High heat does.Frater I*I wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 12:44 pmThat's what is is like for me APR - SEP.....
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I could have put this into Climate Change, but it just seems so personal this year.
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The United States and the entire planet are poised to clinch their most humid summer on record, scientists say. The sweltering conditions, which have pushed this year’s heat close to the limits of survivability in some areas and fueled flooding downpours, are part of a long-term increase in humid heat driven by human-caused climate change.
Climate models have long predicted that a warming world would lead to higher humidity, because warmer air evaporates more water from Earth’s surface and can hold more moisture. The consequences of more humid heat include greater stress on the human body, increased odds of more extreme rainfall, warmer nights and higher cooling demand.
With only a few days left in meteorological summer, defined as June to August, this summer is on track to be the most humid in the United States in 85 years of recordkeeping based on observations of dew point — a measure of humidity — compiled by Hudson Valley meteorologist Ben Noll. It’s also likely to end up being the most humid summer globally, Alaska-based climate scientist Brian Brettschneider said in an email to The Washington Post.
If both trends hold, then five of the most humid summers in both the United States and worldwide will have occurred since 1998.
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Exclude Florida, they do not have climate changeAndyinPA wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 2:43 pm I could have put this into Climate Change, but it just seems so personal this year.
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The United States and the entire planet are poised to clinch their most humid summer on record,
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And of course along with warmer air and its ability to hold more water - eventually that water precipitates out (temporarily) in a rainstorm. And of course there is more water to precipitate out - which means more frequent floods.
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A small flock of Canadian geese just flew by my front porch, makin' a racket and heading South for the winter.
It's a harbinger of colder days to come. It's getting cold up North.
It's a harbinger of colder days to come. It's getting cold up North.
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Finally, Laura Erickson, who writes and broadcasts about birds, says on the mailing list of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union that the Canada goose “gets its name from its breeding range.”
“It is of course perfectly acceptable and correct to call one a ‘Canadian goose’ if you see its passport or some other verification of its citizenship,” she adds.
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I rest my case. I have always heard and used the acceptable variant, as I often wander away from the herd. Iconoclasts, disunite!The four standard dictionaries we’ve consulted, reflecting popular usage, list “Canada goose” as the common name for the North American bird, though two of them include “Canadian goose” as a variant usage.
In Raleigh, we just hope they don't poop on the cars. Numbah One Son made a visit yesterday and we washed the cars.
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It's been in the mid-80s in the slightly more northern land up here.
As for the nationality, if they are breading I. Canada, does that make the a natural born subject of Canada or UK or Kenya and thus, not a natural born US citizen.
Canadian may be appropriate. Even if they were hatched in the US, if their parents were hatched in Canada, they would be Canadian, because birthers say so.
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There's most of a hurricane sitting off the coast of South Carolina, supposed to make us nuts in North Carolina mostly wet all week.
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Today we're about to be flooded with rain from a storm that isn't named yet.
ninja'ed by JT8.
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I park on NOAA's Hurricane page from June to November.
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I park on NWS Convective outlook from April to July/AugustJohn Thomas8 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 8:26 am I park on NOAA's Hurricane page from June to November.
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Yep. Tropical Cyclone 8 has sustained winds of 50 MPH. However it is not officially a tropical storm because its winds aren't sufficiently circular.
After it drenches the Carolinas and points north we should get it here on Wednesday.
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Told my wife about you weirdos who say Canada geese.
Ol' Wifehorn: "I've always called them Canadian geese."
Maybe it's a regional thing. We're both hardcore SoCal to the bone. Even after 20 years in Carolina.
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I have a friend who lived on a lake. She hated the geese with a red-hot passion, but loved the swans.
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We have them here, too, but not in my yard. There's a lot of water around here, so I see them frequently. And they fly over the house almost every evening during their eight months a year here.
Cobra chicken sounds apt.
Cobra chicken sounds apt.
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Autumn has arrived. We know because the Canadian geese are honking overhead on their way south.
Happily the geese don't pause here in the Circle. They do stop along some of the rivers and marinas.
Happily the geese don't pause here in the Circle. They do stop along some of the rivers and marinas.
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Yeah, they pass by overhead and make a big racket, but they don't poop anywhere on our house or cars or anything.
It's late September. They're pretty much a fixture here, in late September. Even though a few trees have just barely begun changing colors, and the daily temps are in the 80s, the geese are reliable and noisy. High today will be 83° F, partly cloudy with no rain. I love these late summer days.
We're two days from the Equinox.
It's late September. They're pretty much a fixture here, in late September. Even though a few trees have just barely begun changing colors, and the daily temps are in the 80s, the geese are reliable and noisy. High today will be 83° F, partly cloudy with no rain. I love these late summer days.
We're two days from the Equinox.
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Enjoy the farm life: harvesting with a thunder storm in the background.
(returns to daily chores at about the 2'15" marker)
(returns to daily chores at about the 2'15" marker)
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace