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[JimH]

People who haven't seen snow often wonder why anyone would want to live in a cold climate like Minnesota.   Here's one of the reasons.

Last night we went to bed with most of the winter's snow melted and this morning it was all back again.  I think we'll get around ten inches by the time it's over.  Here's my back yard:



Three more pictures here:
http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/2006/rainey/snow

[Jaguu]

Here in Zuerich, Switzerland last week we had half a meter snow within 24 hours which has not happened for the last 75 years. With the exception of the lake of Zuerich which was frozen in 1963 the last time, when I was a little boy, all the other lakes here were frozen and we could have nice walking or skating on the lakes. And it is still very cold with a chilly wind coming from the north. Spring is still deep asleep.

While we had very mild winters with almost no snow in the nineties, the real winters came back starting with the year 2000. Although scientists say that the earth climate gets warmer and warmer, the winters here have been again longer and colder compared to 10-20 years ago.

[KingSparta]

I think it reached close to 80 today

Below Reminds me of when I was getting weather conditions for flying

Still Flying JimH?

Or was that when you were going thru your mid life crisies?

Yep: 80+

Raleigh, North Carolina
Currently: 80°F
Raleigh, North Carolina
Currently: 26°C 
Wind: Southwest at 8 MPH
Humidity: 47%
Dewpoint: 58°F
Barometer: 29.90 inches
Heat Index: 80°F

Wind: Southwest at 12 KPH
Humidity: 47%
Dewpoint: 14°C
Barometer: 1012 millibars
Heat Index: 26° C

Sunrise: 6:28 am
Sunset: 6:20 pm

Last updated: 4:17 pm EST March 13, 2006

Rainfall Today in Raleigh, NC: 0.00" Ral.-Dur. Airport, North Carolina
Currently: 80°F Partly Cloudy
Ral.-Dur. Airport, North Carolina
Currently: 26°C Partly Cloudy
Wind: Southwest at 23 MPH
Humidity: 42%
Dewpoint: 55°F
Barometer: 29.83 inches and falling
Heat Index: 80°F

Wind: Southwest at 37 KPH
Humidity: 42%
Dewpoint: 12°C
Barometer: 1010 millibars and falling
Heat Index: 26° C

Sunrise: 6:28 am
Sunset: 6:20 pm

Last updated: 4:00 pm EST March 13, 2006

[JimH]

Still Flying JimH?

I'm still flying.  Learning to fly with a bucket over my head now.

[Mastiff]

Outside my house there's around 160 cm (more than 5 feet) of snow on the ground, with 180 (6 feet) in some places because of the wind! My mastiff does OK, but the papillon has certain near death experiences almost every time she goes outside of the path we have stomped hard for her!

[KingSparta]

Learning to fly with a bucket over my head now.

Oh really

it is good training

rule 1:  When IMC, Always Trust Your Intstruments!

Something Kennedy should have done a few years back.

[GHammer]

I'm still flying.  Learning to fly with a bucket over my head now.

Ahhhh, IFR hoods!
Been awhile since I had one of those on.
My instructor had a high tech method to make you use different instruments. A round rubber thing with lots of little suction cups. It was a soap holder, but he'd flip them over this or that instrument and announce a failure.
The thing I appreciated was that he also found IMC to fly in. Very different than just dropping the visor.

[Galley]

Yippee Skippy.  I'll be in Mpls. for the next seven days. 
It was in the low 80s here this weekend. 

[KingSparta]

The thing I appreciated was that he also found IMC to fly in. Very different than just dropping the visor.

I was more scared of the visor.

what I also hated was flying at night, and The Instructor Pilot (IP) turning off my Night Vision Goggles.