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Reel it on in from Abacus Central, Larry...and get me a huge,big, once in 200 year ip event while you are prognosticating, please. The moles are all wearing Larry masks, and it's kind of freaky, but further predictive, I hope.

I'm pretty sure I spotted some wisteria way up a tall pine yesterday while I was out. I was stunned as it's way early, I think, so I need to double check when I'm out again, but I don't know what else looks lavender, and is way up a tree. I suppose it could be a troup of pastel mandrels, but that would be equally as unusual, lol. Song birds have been obnoxiously loud the last few weeks, mocking my love of cold.

Well, I got an 82.7 so I'm counting on tons of ip and sn right around the corner, lol. And sans that, a nice cool to cold March and April will do just fine. I want to see those boys wearing coats and ear muff at the Masters, with periods of frozen precip. Don't think the Master's has even been snowed out, and that's the kind of heating up cycle anomaly I do so enjoy

I don't recall bookend winters having huge sleet storms at the end, but I have seen some cold/cool Aprils and they are wonderful. Kind of like sticking a thumb in the eye of summer and saying back off. Sure it's only slows the inevitable heat, but it's so so satisfying to defy summer with a cold/cool spring. Of course, my point forecast has an 81 in it, lol. My trees are budding, I have a cherry in full bloom, and a wasp was dive bombing the dining room light the other night, so there's that. Either way I'm pulling for you to pull another Sav snow out of your hat.

The only blizzard I ever saw was March 13th. I don't quit on blizzards 'til mid March, and snow until April 1st, and cold until after the Masters is over

Hey, Shack! I've been lurking mostly, forgot my id and password, so it took a while for my old man brain to limber up enough to get them right so I could post. I wanted to follow Larry. The storm missed me by a mile to the south. Just lost some pines. But Hobby Lobby is a mile and a half or so as the crow flies, and it was much closer sw of that. Too close for comfort. The killer Sunny Side Easter storm was a mile and a half, or so north, and this one south, actually there were two side by side as they passed me. So many huge old oaks down everywhere, but oddly not so many into houses. You see them cut up and piled on the curb, but the house seems in tact. Of course, not in every instance. I feel for those poor people that got blasted. I reacted the same way to the Easter storm as I did this storm. My weather radio gave me positions as it came and I calculate the Easter storm would miss north, and these two the other day miss south, but when they were on me, all I could do was stand in the glass porch and look out watching for them, and tracking the position of the thunder. It got dark as night, then the rain in torrents making a funnel impossible to see if it was there, and the siren a quarter mile south, either got taken out by the wind, failed to go off, or the wind and rain and thunder was so loud I couldn't hear it. No one I've talked to heard it. They put it up after the Easter storm killed people when it went thru. The oddest thing happened a minute or two before the super cell got here. It got really quiet, and the wind died. It was like all the air was sucked out of the space. I remember thinking it was like the sea pulling away from shore before the tidal wave came in. No way I was going outside, lol, ...and then the daylight just went away. Next time I'll head to the basement, it could have be Godzilla, and I wouldn't have been able to see him, stomping thru my yard. No need to look for it, when it gets like that.

Thanks, Larry. I thought I remembered late Jan, then mid Feb as being more propitious times. I guess it's Goofy being goofy trying to put a major on at the wrong time. One of these days, though, it will be in the 20's in Cuba, and I'll get my foot of sleet....just hope I'm not experiencing it from under the ground.

There has been a signal for the first week of Feb for a while. What does climo say for that period, Mr. Abacus? Going from 8.4 in Dec to 70's in Jan, has me expecting something equally as anomalous soon....like 100 year sleet storm, lol.

But I may be the only one to post who lived thru Atl in 73. Ask 100 people who live through that, and let's see what the vote is, lol. Pray you never see a truly bad one. An inch or an inch and a half is just nuisance ice, but it would scare the pants off most people. 73 was twice that in some places. Seeing Peachtree street in Buckhead completely covered in downed trees, broken phone poles, with transformers exploding, and the wires popping every were, as far as the eye could see, I mean everywhere, was interesting, and pretty, but I hope I never see the like again, lol. Once was more than enough. Unless you thrive on carnage and destruction. Losing power is like boy, and girl scouts camping, and no biggie. You might have to wear a coat, and eat dry dog food, lol. That's the least of it, and if you live in the middle of a field, you're good too....but, if you have trees....... different deal. Atlanta has trees. T

Well, it's only fitting after last weeks sleet train! Good lucky going forward, you've had it so far. T

Taken to the banter thread, lol. Which is proper posting technique...and I hope you'll remember it when I get out of hand come the Big Sleet! T

To quote the inimitable JBurns..." Social skills are important even on an internet board." T

And don't urinate on the models. Call them names, dress them up like Miss Piggy and laugh at them, but leave the watering to the professionals. Folks work really hard to bring us these messages of joy each day, and only those who truely understand them would know the proper time to excrete on them If you had grown up in the 50's when the only model anyone knew about was wearing fancy cloths, you'd know just how lucky the hobbiest is now. T