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2013-09-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Almanac says get ready for colder, snowier winter

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Posted by Au Auric 2013-09-12 10:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Judging by the Arctic ice pack, they may be right.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-09-12 13:54|| 2013-09-12 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll take it, being here in Texas

Posted by texhooey 2013-09-12 14:09|| 2013-09-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 is predicting that a drop in solar activity and a change in ocean patterns point to colder-than-average temperatures and higher-than-average snowfall totals.

Either that or Al-Gore is on tour.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-09-12 14:53|| 2013-09-12 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course, the global warming crowd will point to this as proof of global warming.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-12 15:18|| 2013-09-12 15:18|| Front Page Top

#5 "Climate change", Rambler in Virginia, "climate change".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-12 15:43|| 2013-09-12 15:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought it was "Climate Psychosis"?

Posted by tu3031 2013-09-12 16:19|| 2013-09-12 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 The term "thought crime" was invented for people like you, tu3031.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-12 16:26|| 2013-09-12 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 They may be right, if insect behavior is any indication.

For the past 2 weeks, I've had huge hornets (1-1/2 to 2 inches long) trying to get in my back door every night (attracted to the automatic deck light, and then to the door/window and the kitchen lights when that goes out).

They started coming in pairs at first, but have picked up lately - the other morning, I had to sweep 7 or 8 bodies off the deck in front of the door. (When they start flying at the storm door, I pull down the top window, which rolls down a screen, and zap them with hornet spray through the screen. [Insert maniacal laughter here])

I've NEVER had this happen before in the 30+ years I've lived here. Can't find a nest anywhere in the area, either. I mentioned this to a friend who's kinda country and he said they were trying to find someplace warm to hole up for the winter since they "knew" it was going to be severe; the ants were doing the same thing. It's as good an explanation as any.

I need to go up to the attic with the hornet spray and look to see if they've gotten in there. :-(

So hang on tight, friends - it's coming!

(And I don't even want to think about the electric and oil bills, which have already gone up from last year.)

Posted by Barbara 2013-09-12 19:03|| 2013-09-12 19:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I understand they are already shoveling in Vail CO.

Posted by KBK 2013-09-12 21:21|| 2013-09-12 21:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Love your dedication to hornet eradication Barb, I had a nest under my gazebo, so I masked the skirt off and tossed a couple of hornet b gone bombs under but no joy. (did I mention I was checking the shelf life of my beer at the time) I had been cleaning with a shop vac and the small opening left in the skirt masking kind of funneled those critters there ( did I mention the beer I was checking was taking effect) so I started hovering them them up, one at a time. made a satisfying 'thump' when they hit the bend in the hose.
quite fun actually.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-09-12 22:08|| 2013-09-12 22:08|| Front Page Top

#11 .... oh goody, on my checklist of finding a house in Arkansas, was a fireplace.... remembered a year my sister was out of power for some 5-6 days, and their big fireplace saved them....

No fireplace, and been reading and making preparations for all these plants I have, wondering what winter is like... and now, I learn.... it will be worse.....

Posted by Sherry 2013-09-12 23:02|| 2013-09-12 23:02|| Front Page Top

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