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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:10 pm
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How hot does it get there in the summer time typically?
Typically July and August are around 79 F. It’s not uncommon for it to be in the 80s though. 112 F was the 1936 record.

We’ve had great Summers and some that are write offs because of a longer winter, heavy winds, heavy prairie rain storms, an abundance of skeeters or yellow jackets, although the skeeters are well under control compared to yesteryear’s city practice of spraying malathion. Now we release dragonflies which are pretty effective. I’m into moderate weather, but here we can have a year that can vary 120 degrees. 624 miles from here our polar bears are unfortunately having tough times with warmer winters up there. Climate change? I guess you can call it that, but it’s all pretty normal here and I’m guessing 112F in 1936 would have been severe climate change as we speak of today.

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:25 pm
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It usually doesn't get too hot around here, since we're right on the Atlantic Ocean, and an island, so we do get the breezes from that. Although, it can get pretty humid at night. Last summer wasn't too bad, though. It's nothing like Florida. It's great in the winter time, but an armpit during the summer. :P

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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:50 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
It usually doesn't get too hot around here, since we're right on the Atlantic Ocean, and an island, so we do get the breezes from that. Although, it can get pretty humid at night. Last summer wasn't too bad, though. It's nothing like Florida. It's great in the winter time, but an armpit during the summer. :P


The summer does become a challenge in a lot of parts of the country, thats for sure.

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:55 pm
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When I lived on Vancouver Island the weather was pretty good overall. Snow was a rarity to almost non existent. Not so these days. There can be snow, and it can dump a little or a lot. Winter wear traditionally can be just a thin jacket or heavy sweater. Winter clothing is an after thought unlike living in Nova Scotia on the Atlantic side. They were the worst winters I’ve experienced being cold and wet with ice on the brows, trees, cars, power lines, and so on. I remember nice summers in Nova Scotia, and mostly great summer days on the west coast, although evenings can be cool so it’s always smart to dress in layers or take a jacket or sweater for the evening outing.

A lot is said about the amount of rain in winter. Prairie folk visiting the coast often miss an abundance of sunshine in 40 below until I point out that rain is thawed out snow, and the fact that the mainland and mountain ranges have the most rain while the island has the least along with the most moderate weather in the country. Air conditioners amongst the masses is a recent phenomena. We wouldn’t be able to sleep in the summer on the prairies without AC. The island has no mosquitoes or West Nile virus either. It does have a lot of bears, and the largest cougar population in North America . . . estimated to be 2000+. In most places I’ve lived or visited Fall is pretty consistent, and it has long become my favourite time of year. I just don’t get the roasting of one’s skin tradition, even though boating and beaches are in my blood. Warm is cool. A warm bed is comfy, but a hot one is blah! Hot food, hot girls, hot cars, hot tubs, hot coffee, and so on make sense. Hot skin just sounds wrong to me. It’s sort of like having a fever IMHO. Some like their beer warm, some like beer cold. Nobody likes their beer hot, as far as I know. No sunburns and no toques. That’s my style. YMMV.

A couple of years ago it was so hot in Saskatchewan that a good size lake dried up. Dried up river beds are historical however. It’s just that we’ve often never seen the peak water in some of them and those are easier to accept. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:22 pm
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I thought I would throw in my hometown annual weather temperature and rain day averages for fun.

Queen Creek, AZ
Weather averages

MonthHigh / Low(°F) Rain

January65° / 42° 2 days
February70° / 45° 2 days
March75° / 49° 2 days
April84° / 56° 0 days
May92° / 65° 0 days
June102° / 74° 0 days
July103° / 81° 2 days
August101° / 79° 3 days
September97° / 73° 2 days
October87° / 61° 1 day
November75° / 49° 1 day
December65° / 42° 2 days

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:20 pm
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Well, Marky, I’m guessing when ya go summer fishing in Arizona the fish are already cooked before they get in the boat (much like how we freeze our fish from taking them through an ice hole in the winter). :lol:
I gotta ask . . . during those real hot days, do Arizonans spend more time indoors or do they embrace the day outdoors in that heat? Freeze in the winter - stay indoors. Burn in the summer - stay indoors. That’s the problem here, unless you’re part of lake country (100,000 here). 8)
For us growing grass is becoming harder to control with seasonal inconsistencies in the last couple of years. We are now seeing green replaced by concrete, rocks, and hardier plants like our southern neighbours have. A lot of this is because the snowbirds have adopted it. Giant farms, mostly void of trees, on both sides of the border, are said to contribute to a possible future dust bowl, and deserts are and will develop north and south far and wide from the North in Canada to the far south in USA.

That’ll change the seasons. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:45 am
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Well, Marky, I’m guessing when ya go summer fishing in Arizona the fish are already cooked before they get in the boat (much like how we freeze our fish from taking them through an ice hole in the winter). :lol:
I gotta ask . . . during those real hot days, do Arizonans spend more time indoors or do they embrace the day outdoors in that heat? Freeze in the winter - stay indoors. Burn in the summer - stay indoors. That’s the problem here, unless you’re part of lake country (100,000 here). 8)

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During the hottest time of day, around 5pm, in summer I'm usually in the A/C which we set at about 80 degrees. I'm fine outside up to 100 degrees as long as I'm in the shade. It really is something that you acclimate to. I remember playing basketball as a kid in Chicago. In 20 degree weather, we shoveled off a court and played in T-shirts until our fingers didn't work anymore. Now I wear a jacket when it's below 65. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:11 am
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I remember playing basketball as a kid in Chicago. In 20 degree weather, we shoveled off a court and played in T-shirts until our fingers didn't work anymore. Now I wear a jacket when it's below 65. :lol:
C’mon. I know you also wear a toque like Justin Timberlake when it’s 65, You can tell me. I won’t tell anyone. Well, okay . . . maybe a few. :lol: I knew it. another conehead.. :P

Good morning coneheads of the world. :D

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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:35 am
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Happy St. Paddy's Day Weekend!!!

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:01 am
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Marky Forrest wrote:
I remember playing basketball as a kid in Chicago. In 20 degree weather, we shoveled off a court and played in T-shirts until our fingers didn't work anymore. Now I wear a jacket when it's below 65. :lol:
C’mon. I know you also wear a toque like Justin Timberlake when it’s 65, You can tell me. I won’t tell anyone. Well, okay . . . maybe a few. :lol: I knew it. another conehead.. :P

Good morning coneheads of the world. :D

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:lol: Well I haven't graduated to a toque yet but I do wear one of my warmer cowboy hats. :) Good morning!

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:18 am
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Back at ya, Mike.

Irish luck:

Three men walked into an Irish Pub. Murphy had never been there before.

Murphy hurries to the bar, quickly orders a drink, and paid the bartender leaving no tip. The other two, being regulars and big tippers, got two on the house.

The three fellas took their drinks to a table where one said to Murphy, “Nice guy that bartender”. “Yeah, nice guy. Watch those drinks for us, Murph. Gotta see a man about a horse”, says the other.

They leave dejected Murphy at the table with their free drinks. When the two are out of sight Murphy quickly downs his and then the free ones.

The two return from the can, and when they reach the table they see three empty glasses with a smile and froth on Murphy’s face who proclaims, “Faith and Begorra for Irish luck. You are so right. That lad is a wonderful bartender. He gave me the same as you!” :P

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Post subject: Re: Good morning Lounge Lizards
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:50 am
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Marky Forrest wrote:
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Marky Forrest wrote:
I remember playing basketball as a kid in Chicago. In 20 degree weather, we shoveled off a court and played in T-shirts until our fingers didn't work anymore. Now I wear a jacket when it's below 65. :lol:
C’mon. I know you also wear a toque like Justin Timberlake when it’s 65, You can tell me. I won’t tell anyone. Well, okay . . . maybe a few. :lol: I knew it. another conehead.. :P

Good morning coneheads of the world. :D

FSB

:lol: Well I haven't graduated to a toque yet but I do wear one of my warmer cowboy hats. :) Good morning!
Well, that’s a good practical chapeau to have pardner. I retired mine when I left Ali Khan (my part time quarter/Arabian) behind in my teenage years. (That’s what happens to ya when your Mom was around horses. Too bad it wasn’t a Ferrari). :lol: Might be good for me to grab a cowboy hat to sing a little Country if the mood strikes. Meanwhile, the beat up ball cap works and with that I can always break into blues or rock. :P
You’ve got the Stetson . . . now you need one of these, Marky:

http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/aucti ... bonneville

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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:37 pm
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I know it's a little late for morning, but today sure was a really nice day here. 8)

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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:04 pm
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Yeehaw! That Bonneville is pretty slick all right! :)

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